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J. Dolan Park
J. Dolan Park, East Fremantle. John Dolan (1901-1986) was MLC (1963-1974) and a Cabinet Minister. He was also a teacher at Beaconsfield, Fremantle Boys School, Fremantle Boys High School and John Curtin High School. Named by East Fremantle Council in 1982. It's a little bit of green between Riverside Road and the river and near the Stirling Bridge, with a tiny parking area for half a dozen vehicles.
The W.H. Kitson Park is directly opposite, across Beach Street. It contains the 'Plympton Steps' which rise up to Canning Highway, opposite the Plympton (now Tradewinds) Hotel and what was Tom Owen's pharmacy.
References and Links
East Fremantle Council Design Workshop on this park 2014: 'The Plympton steps are currently undergoing stabilisation and important safety works and will form an integral part of the plan developed for Kitson Park.'
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 24 March, 2016 and hosted at freotopia.org/parks/dolanpark.html (it was last updated on 24 April, 2024). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.