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Parry Street
Named for Rear-Admiral William Edward Parry, though he was never in the Colony. >
From the northwest, Parry Street originally only went the three blocks from Adelaide Street southeast through Queens Square to Holdsworth Street. To the northwest, Edward Street (also named for the admiral) continued down to the river beach next to the Australia Hotel. Edward Street has now become part of Parry Street.
In the late 1970s, it was proposed to extend Parry Street southwestwards to join South Terrace. After a few years of consideration this was approved in 1984 and then carried out, cutting off the western end of Fairbairn Street, and passing close to the back of the Victoria Pavilion at Fremantle Oval. Passing between the Scots Church and tTerrace opposite Norfolk St, which continues down to Marine Terrace.
I suppose Parry Street functions as a 'ring road' for Fremantle, together with Marine Parade, and Phillimore St/Elder Place.
References and Links
Notes about the Parry Street extension in >Fremantle, the newsletter of the Fremantle Society: Vol 8 No 1 1980, Vol 11 No 3 1983, Vol 12 No 1 1984.
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, 2016 and hosted at freotopia.org/streets/parry.html (it was last updated on 18 December, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.