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Cherrys Dry Cleaners, Claremont

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c. 1918

Overview

Stone house with gable and iron roof. Bullnosed iron roof to verandah with turned posts, decorative brackets and valance, canvas blinds. Weatherboard addition to side of house. Adjoining brick building and fence over which is sign [CHERRYS / DRY CLEANERS] separates dwelling from shed, tank on stand, windmill of business premises. Close-picket fence to side of house and surrounding dry cleaners and scalloped open-picket fencing to street frontage. Rough verge, unmade road, trees in background.

Historical information

According to postal directories, Walter Cherry & Co Ltd, Dyers & Cleaners, had a shop in Bay View Terrace next to Rickard's Shoe Store until 1918. The work appears to have been carried out at 3 Diver Street (later St Quentin Avenue). The Cherry family lived at 1 St Quentin Avenue in a house named Ormerod. In later years the dry cleaning business was apparently moved further west as the United Bus depot on Gugeri Street had parking area that extended right through to St Quentin Avenue. The business was taken over by Stannards, a well known dry cleaning firm.

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cwa-org-28--4-79-

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-31.982224342217, 115.78091006872

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