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Local History Centre
The Fremantle History Centre was in the new Fremantle City Library which was established in 1974 on the ground floor of the Town Hall Centre. It had its own entrance inside the Library, its own staff, and its own opening hours. As well as bookshelves it was provided with compactor stacks for collections of research materials such as rate books, as well as map storage and a physical index of archival photographs. It was closed in 2017 and then destroyed when the Town Hall Centre was demolished, and not replaced in the new library in the Walyalup Civic Centre.
Fremantle Society post:
12 March 2023: Where are our Local History Centre and restored Town Hall?
References and Links
Harris, Pam 2018, 'From card catalogue to eBooks: a history of Fremantle City Library, 1851-2016', paper presented to the Fremantle History Society on its Studies Day 2016, published two years later in Fremantle Studies, no. 10.
McGeever, Betty 2023, Tis but a shadow', Fremantle Herald, 8 April, pp. 10, 12.
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