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Burt Street
Burt Street was named in honour of Sir Archibald Paull Burt (1810-79), the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of WA 1861-79, until his death. The eastern end of Burt Street, up to East Street, was previously called Finnerty Street.
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Looking down at Burt Street, which extends across most of the photograph, from the vicinity of Cantonment Hill. Fremantle Library Local History Collection 1903 image #534A. The Library caption has: 'View of Fremantle from vicinity of Cantonment Hill. Note: Lunatic Asylum, Quarry Street, Burt Street and Skinner Street.'
[Compare image #534B, possibly (from the enumeration) taken on the same day from the same location, but turned a bit to the right.]
The street on the right with which Burt Street intersects is Quarry Street. The one towards the left is Skinner Street - the prominent left hand bit of which is now Tuckfield Street.
Remarkably, it seems that all of the houses between Quarry and Skinner Streets still exist: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, and 17. I'll just show one example from the present (from Google Maps): the house third from the right in that group, no. 5:
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References and Links
Fremantle Library Local History Collection 1903 image #534A.
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 7 May, 2020 and hosted at freotopia.org/streets/burt.html (it was last updated on 16 November, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.