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Claremont Museum > Records

'APPY 'OME' BUILDING WITH HORSES

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1892

Overview

B/W print. A policeman is tting on a horse, two men are in a horse drawn phaeton, and a lad is holding the head of a horse with a bowler-hatted man on it. Two men are standing and two girls sitting on the ground in front of them. The shingle roof stone

Historical information

1892 -The building previously used for the Freshwater Bay school was used as a boarding house by a group of young bachelors: Clive Hastings Napier (later lived in Goldsmith Road), J Stevens (later lived Agett Road and was with Harbour Trust), James Thompson (later Peppermint Grove - Chief Engineer WA ?), Aubery Sherwood (later Peppermint Grove), Mr Sharkey, Mr Pether and their Chinese cook. They named the house 'Appy 'Ome. Now the Freshwater Bay Museum.

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cwa-org-28--98-489

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