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Electric Pictures
33 Canning Highway East Fremantle
I'm calling the building by the name of one of its tenants as it doesn't have an obvious orginal name. The owners or tenants 1910-1932 were all butchers (Holmes, Fitch, O'Donnell, Huggins, James, and Hill, in that order). Undertakers Mead & Son had their business there 1933-1949. Electric Pictures, Andrew Ogilvie's production company, are now at 33. Electric Pictures is aka Harbourview Studios. The Establishment (for Beauty and Health, Rosemarie Jerovich) is at 29-31.
Heritage Council:
No 29-33 Canning Highway is a building constructed in brickwork with rendered details. It has low-pitched corrugated iron roofs which are concealed by parapets. It is a very fine expression of the Federation Filigree style. The street elevations are arranged to accommodate three shopfronts with their entrance doors and display windows. A dominant feature is the bull-nosed roofed verandah. The verandah runs along both street frontages and is detailed with filigree works. A parapet extends above the verandah line. There is an articulated line that includes three curved top pediments.
To the rear a number of residences have been developed.
The place is consistent with the pattern of development in Plympton and of a working class suburb.
References and Links
Image and data: streetsofeastfreo.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 23 August, 2016 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/electricpictures.html (it was last updated on 29 March, 2024). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.