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POSTER - FROGMORE MOTOR GARAGE KELMSCOTT

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'Worker' Print

1910 - 1947

Overview

Cream rectangle cardboard poster with a green triple lined boarder. Green text across the top, middle and bottom [FROGMORE MOTOR GARAGE / KELMSCOTT / MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE / Touring and Picnic Parties a Speciality / Telephone 7. / J. H. C BAMLETT Proprietor, / Intimately acquainted with the Beauty Spots of the Canning Valley and the Armadale-Kelmscott / District].
On poster are three sepia toned photographic images. A rectangle horizontal image in the top third and then two vertical images in bottom two thirds. Between these two images is a decorative green square with a vine design on it. Decorations taper down and up. In middle is text. Top image is of a brick building with a windmill in background, garden, lawn and driveway in foreground. On drive way is an open top car with an Armadale Kelmscott number plate. Bottom left image is of the Bunbury Road near Wungong bridge & the bottom right photo of a man sitting under a grass tree 'Kingia Australis'.
Printers information bottom right of poster.

Historical information

In the early 1900s the popularity of the new motor vehicles started to grow in Western Australia and motor garages began to appear in the district. One of the early garages in Kelmscott was 'Frogmore', started in c1915 by James H.C. Bamlett, a poultry farmer who had moved to Kelmscott in c1899. James had emigrated to Western Australia from Yorkshire in the United Kingdom in the 1890s.
The garage started off selling petrol but quickly moved to hiring out motor vehicles to locals and tourists, who arrived in Kelmscott via the nearby railway line, to go for touring drive through the local hills, exploring the bush, looking at wildflowers and purchasing local produce.
James Bamlett died at the Kelmscott family home in1947, aged 83.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2008.40

Themes

Leisure
People
Recreation
Transport

Material

Cardboard

Width

243 mm

Height or length

308 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Printer information ['WORKER' PRINT.]

Keywords

Albany Highway

Bamletts Garage Kelmscott

Wongong Bridge

BUNBURY Road

Kelmscott

Frogmore Motor Garage Kelmscott

BAMLETT James H C Mr

Year

1910 - 1947

Statement of significance

This object is part of a collection that represents the commercial history of the City of Armadale. It represents the many different businesses that have operated in the local area and how those businesses have evolved over time. Businesses play an important role within a community, they provide wanted and needed goods and services, employment, income and opportunities to the local community. They can also operate as important social connectors, places where people gathered and engaged with other members of the community.

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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