120 Marmion Street

120 Marmion Street (map)

ARCHITECTURE

Late interwar, Bungalow Porch House 

No. 120 (previously was no. 180) Marmion street is a single storey house constructed in timber framing, weatherboards, brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable tiled roof. It is an expression of the Inter-War Porch style. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a thrust gable bay. The west elevation features a series of timbered gables. The front facade features casement windows.

HISTORY

1925 Assault. Percy Russell was fined £1 with £3 2s 6d costs at the Fremantle Police Court yesterday for having on August 8 assaulted Cecil Ivan Jarvis, a tram conductor. Mr. L. Coleman prosecuted on behalf of the Fremantle Tramway Board. (reference)

1938 Assaults Tram Conductor. For having assaulted a tram conductor Edward George Taylor, a young man, was fined £3 with £3 7s costs in Fremantle Police Court today. Taylor admitted a charge of having assaulted Cecil Ivan Jarvis. Mr. F. G. Unmack, who prosecuted on behalf of the Tramway Board, said that about 7.45 p.m. on February 19 Taylor boarded an East Fremantle tram while it was in motion. He was carrying two bottles of beer, one of which dropped and smashed.Apparently incensed at his loss, counsel said, Taylor then went into the saloon of the tram, where Jarvis was collecting fares, and struggled with him. (reference)

1941 Reported Missing. Missing Private Herbert Ernest Stratton is a nephew of W. A. Trotting Association President J, Stratton. Private Stratton has a younger brother and three cousins in the A.I.F. in Australia waiting to go overseas. For six months before enlisting in the A.I.F. Private Stratton was a member of the militia forces, became known as a crack rifle shot. His father, Mr. H. E. Stratton of Palmyra, served with the 28th Battalion in the last War. (reference) 1942 Missing since the Battle for Crete, assumed by the military authorities to be dead, Private Herbert Ernest Stratton' has turned up in a prison camp in Crete. He was captured during the fighting for the island. (reference)

RESIDENTS

1921: Stratton, Herbert E. "Mirboo"

1922: Walters, Frederick B.

1923: Errington, Reginald Ralph

1924 - 1949: Jarvis, Cecil Ivan

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