Dampier Memorial

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26192 BEDFORD PARK/DAMPIER MEMORIAL/WAR MEMORIAL

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• 03593 Broome War Memorial, Bedford Memorial Pk

Statement of Significance

Dampier Memorial is of considerable significance for the commemoration of William Dampier and for the association with Marshall Clifton, an esteemed architect of the Interwar period.

Physical Description

Concrete with Dampier’s coat of arms

History

In 1938, a memorial was installed in Bedford Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast in the Roebuck in the early 1700s. It was originally accepted that Dampier had landed at Roebuck Bay, but this has since been proved incorrect. The memorial is in the form of a sea chest and bears the inscription: 'This memorial chest was presented to the Town People of Broome by the Commonwealth Government and the Western Australian Historical Society and unveiled by Commander R.R. Dowling R.A.N. HMAS Swan on the 30 October 1938'. An inscription by John Mansfield reads: 'We little guess which deed a future year may mark to mortals from our passing here'. Bedford Park was named after Governor Bedford and opened by him in 1924. In 1938, a memorial was installed in the Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast. The Broome War Memorial and the pearl divers' decompression chamber are also in the park. The chamber was donated to Broome by English firm E. E. Heinke & Co, manufacturers of diving suits. The use of the chamber reduced the number of deaths from the bends from thirty-three in 1914 to one in 1918. In 1990, the Broome Historical Society sent the decompression chamber to Fremantle Maritime Museum for restoration. It was returned in 1992 and is now displayed in the Museum. Other memorials in the park include one honouring Hugh Davis (Pa) Norman, one of the pioneers in the pearling industry and another honouring his son, Edward (Ted) de Burgh Norman, and his wife Catherine Mary (Rene), who was the first Commissioner of Girl Guides in the north-west from 1932-1941. In 1938, a memorial was installed in Bedford Park commemorating William Dampier's visit to the North West coast in the Roebuck in the early 1700s. It was originally accepted that Dampier had landed at Roebuck Bay, but this has since been proved incorrect.

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Statement of Significance

The memorial is important as it marks the link with Broome of the first Englishman to visit Australia shores. It has been on the Trust's recorded list since 1973.

History

Assessment June 1983 The Dampier Memorial was built in 1938 and was designed by Marshall Clifton. It is built in the form of a sea-chest in granite with Dampier's name and coat of arms on it. The original exposition notes that is was funded by the Commonwealth and the WA Historical Society and that a dedicatory oration for its unveiling was written by John Masefield. William Dampier was the first Englishman to sight Australia. He visited the north-west coast in 1688 in "Cygnet" and in 1699 in "Roebuck", the bay on which Broome stands being on if his landing places on the second voyage.

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Uniting Church, Broome

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This building is an architectural/technical accomplishment. Every aspect of its design, such as the rolling and folding doors, the double high pitched roof, the wide verandahs and the opening clerestory, were especially designed to cope with the intense northern heat of Broome. In the cyclone season the building could be closed up like a box and little damage was possible. These functional features have been incorporated in a building of balance and charm. The building certainly demonstrates life, custom and function as a well designed, tropical church and a public meeting place. For years it was the only public hall in Broome. The building is of historic importance, as a memorial to Rev. Frank Brady, whose death was of such significance to the town that the church was built by public subscription. It is also the only pre-war Australian Inland Mission church building in the Kimberley. The building adds to Broome's historic townscape. It is included in many town publications and artistic works, such as the film "Flight into Hell". The scarcity value of this building is clearly demonstrable. There would be few church buildings extant of a tropical design of the early twentieth century.

Physical Description

The building is timber framed with asbestos sheet cladding. The major part of side walls consist of large wooden doors which roll back onto metal tracks to create wide openings onto the verandahs, and thus allow the breeze in. The front wall consisted of two folding wooden doors, until this was fixed and a double door was inserted as a front door. There are wide wooden verandahs on three sides of the building. The roof is of iron, built in two sections divided by a clerestory. The high pitched main roof finishes at the clerestory and the second roof covers the verandahs. The clerestory itself consists of metal clad, horizontally pivoting windows on the four sides of the building which allow the hot air to rise and escape at ceiling level, drawing cooler air in at the bottom, creating upward convection currents.

History

The building was never built as a residence, but as a church and memorial to Rev. Frank Brady in 1925. Brady ministered to the Kimberley from 1913-17, and again in 1925.

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26191 UNITING CHURCH & MANSE

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Uniting Church is of considerable significance for the continuous associations with the Presbyterian and subsequent Uniting Church since 1925, and with Reverend Brady, AIM organisation and John Flynn. The design and aesthetic are significant for the AIM associations, response to the tropical climate and unique design of rollback walls. The churchmake a considerable contribution to the streetscape, character and townscape of Broome.

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Uniting Church, Broome, an Inter-War Bungalow style timber frame fibro clad building with a corrugated iron roof, the building is a distinctive part of the streetscape and makes a positive contribution to the character of the town. The place exhibits technical sophistication in the operable (moveable) walls and clerestory windows which demonstrate significant response to the tropical climate.

History

In 1910 the Rev J. C. Fordyce, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in WA volunteered to establish a mission in Broome to alleviate the 'appalling neglect and degradation' believed to be prevalent there at the time. Church services were held on the wide latticed verandahs of the Manse, known as the 'Verandah Church'. In 1912, the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) Board of the National Presbyterian Church was created and took responsibility for the north-west. Broome was the base for AIM's pastoral patrol to Derby, Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek and Wyndham. A hall was rented from the Broome Council for church services. Construction of the Uniting Church commenced in 1925, funded by public subscription as a memorial following the death from malaria of Rev F. G. H. Brady, who had administered to the Kimberley 1913-1917 and returned in 1925. The building was called the Brady Memorial Hall. The design of the Church, with special consideration for the Broome climate, suggests it was the work of the Rev John Flynn, Superintendent of AIM. It is similar to his design for Adelaide House in Alice Springs. As well as use as a place of worship, the Church has also been used as a meeting place, social club, youth centre, day care centre and opportunity shop. The Church celebrated it Golden Jubilee in 1975 and renovations were carried out to the Manse the following year. In 1977, the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches joined to form the Uniting Church of Australia. In 1983, Broome became the regional centre for the Uniting Church Kimberley Presbytery and an office and residence were built in Herbert Street.

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Modifications: Church: 1971 folding doors at front replaced.

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Community Health Services

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Commonwealth Health Laboratory (fmr) is significant for its associations with medical research and health services in the Broome district. It represents an uncommon example of concrete construction and interwar development in Broome.

Physical Description

Commonwealth Health Laboratory (fmr) comprises 3 single storey buildings: former laboratory, animal house and toilet block. All are situated in the grounds of Broome Hospital. The buildings are reinforced concrete structures with hipped corrugated asbestos/cement roofs, although the Animal House is rendered and painted concrete with corrugated iron roof. Conversion to Nurse's quarters included partition walls to create more rooms, construction of bathroom in former storeroom, verandah enclosure and alterations to toilet block.

History

Constructed as a diagnostic and research laboratory for doctors, it had an associated animal house and toilet block. The laboratory was a larger version of the Darwin Health Laboratory (1933) and was opened in July 1938 by Dr R. K. Gray. It was involved with work on the outbreak of malignant Tertian Malaria at Fitzroy Valley and the incidence of leprosy in the northwest, but by the early 1950s there was little requirement for a laboratory in Broome. The Broome District Medical Officer used the place as a residence for several years, and in 1955 it was converted for use as hospital Nurse's quarters. In 1959, the animal house was converted for use as quarters for hospital domestic staff and a laundry was added in 1962. The Nurse's quarters were upgraded in 1967 and the water tanks and tank stands were removed. In 1975-76, the former laboratory was refurbished for use as Community Health Services. It has provided community health care since that time and is of particular importance to the Aboriginal community in the areas of preventative medicine and child health care.

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Moderate degree Moderate degree

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Maurice Lyon's House

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Statement of Significance

Typical example of 'Pearl Masters' home and its structural form in largely original condition

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Single storied, timber framed structure, currugated iron and timber cladding on walls and corrugated iron on roof. The surrounding garden is typical of Broomes ornamental vegetation

History

Assessment 1983

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Maurice Lyon’s Residence (former), is significant for the associations with civil servant William Lightfoot, and pearlers Wilfred Hawkes and Maurice Lyons. It is a fine representative example typical of early 1900s residences of the prosperous pearling period and demonstrates the tropical architectural style that typifies Broome architecture of that period.

Physical Description

The single storey timber framed structure is clad with horizontal corrugated iron walls. The hipped roof is also clad with corrugated iron. Verandah roof separate, but same pitch. Mostly obscured by the lush tropical garden, typical of Broome.

History

Built in 1903 as the residence of civil servant William R. Lightfoot who was a landing waiter in 1901 and Acting District Registrar in 1902. In 1908, the residence was purchased and occupied by Wilfred and Ella Hawkes. Wilfred Hawkes was employed by pearlers James Clark & Co. Maurice Lyons and wife Edith purchased the property in 1930. Maurice Lyons was a clerk in the Union Bank in 1917, but is listed as a pearler by the early 1920s. The Lyons eventually owned seven luggers and a schooner and pearled successfully until 1935, when the price of pearl shell fell dramatically. The Lyons left Broome during World War Two and on their return worked for Streeter and Male, Edith as head bookkeeper and Maurice as paymaster for the pearling fleet and the shell packing shed. Edith died in 1968 and Maurice in 1970. Both are buried in the Pioneer Cemetery. Later owners were storekeeper William Gerry Fong (1970 to 1975) and carpenter Keith Thomas (1975-1996).

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St John of God Convent (fmr), Broome

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St John of God Convent is significant for the associations with the St John of God sisters, and the continuous use as a community care facility.

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The single storey timber framed building with perimeter verandah is located central within a flat-grassed setting. The roof is hipped and the main roof covers the verandahs.

History

The Sisters of St John of God arrived in Broome in 1908. Their first home was a tin hut where they lived by day, sleeping in the church at night. The Chinese and Japanese shopkeepers gave them bedding and crockery. The Sisters nursed in the Japanese and District hospitals. A verandah, two bedrooms, kitchen and storeroom were added to the hut in 1909. A Catholic school was built in 1911, at which they taught. In 1926, the convent was built for them by Japanese carpenter Hori Gorokitchi. Gorokitchi arrived in Western Australia in May 1891, at the age of twenty-three. He worked as a builder and contractor in Broome, employing Japanese carpenters and constructing many buildings, including the former McDaniel Residence (Ref 45). The Sisters of St John of God occupied the Convent until 1967. Two Sisters spent over 60 years at Broome. Sisters Alphonse and Ignatius celebrated their Diamond Jubilee in Broome in 1975, and for their work in the North, Sister Alphonse was awarded the OBE and Sister Ignatius the MBE. The building has served a number of community needs, and was occupied by the Binagarra Counselling Service in 1996.

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Anastasia's Pearl Gallery

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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Lyons Tate Office

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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Lyons & Tate contributes to the character and townscape of Broome’s town centre.

Physical Description

The single storey timber framed building with front verandah is zero setback to the street frontage. The building and the gable roof are clad with corrugated iron. There is a double storey adjoining building at the rear of the office facility.

History

Lyons Tate office is a recent construction built as an investment property for Broome Chinese Community (Inc), owners of Shekki Shed on the same lot. In 1935-1940 the site was occupied by Akim’s bakery.

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Shekki Shed Gallery

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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The single storey timber framed building with front verandah is zero setback to the street frontage. The timber framed building is clad with horizontal corrugated iron. The gabled corrugated iron roof continues over the front verandah and has the remnants of Chinese writing still visible.

History

The Shekki Shed Gallery comprises a shop and residence. In 1911, it was owned by a group of Chinese businessmen. Tenants at that time were Sam Sue and Ah Sue. In 1912, Ah Chi applied for an eating-house licence for the premises. In the 1930s it was the Chinese Tripe Store. The Shekki Shed is owned by the Broome Chinese Community (Inc)

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Blooms Cafe Restaurant

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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The single storey timber framed building with front verandah is zero setback to the street frontage. The building and the gable roof are clad with colorbond cladding. The verandah roof is at break pitch.

History

In 1908, Ghi Twan ran a boarding house. In the 1930s tailor H. Choong also known as ‘Baldhead’ Tailor, occupied premises at the rear of the lot.

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Tack's Store (fmr)

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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Tack's Store (former) comprises a two-storey store and residence. The double storey timber framed building with front verandah is zero setback to the symmetrical street frontage. The building and the gable roof are clad with painted corrugated iron. The upstairs verandah balustrade is infilled with lattice.

History

Originally owned by pearler Hugh Norman, in 1908, it was leased to Ghi Twan who ran a boarding house on the premises. It was leased by storekeeper San Juan in 1913. Louey Ling Tack arrived in Broome in the 1910s. He operated as a pearl dealer from a store on corner of Dampier and Napier terraces from 1919 tuntil1926 when he returned to Hong Kong. By c.1920, he had purchased the building in Carnarvon Street and after his return to Hong Kong a family member, Arthur Fong Tack Louey, came to Broome to run the general merchant store. Arthur was treasurer and secretary of the Chinese Club for many years and Chinese interpreter for the Clerk of Courts when required. He continued to run the store until his death in 1988, aged 85, and is buried in the Chinese cemetery. Pearl Chong Fong-Louey, owns the place and has leased it to various businesses in recent years.

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Ah Ming's Store & Residence (fmr)

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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The single storey timber framed building with front verandah is zero setback to the street frontage, and has a substantial double storey at the rear. The timber-framed building is clad with horizontal colorbond cladding, as for the gabled roof. Each of the two shop fronts is symmetrical.

History

Lot 391 was owned by pearler Frank Biddles. Storekeepers Yee Ah Chun, Jock Sign and Thom Fong leased the land from 1903 to at least 1922 and ran a store on the site. The two storey residence at the rear was used as a boarding house at various times. In the 1930s, Yu Kwok Cheung (Georgie), also known as Kwok Cheung Yee, (for his father Yu Ming Noi-also known as Ana Wei and Ah Ming) ran his Ah Ming Store in the store (north). In the 1930s the south shop was known as Kannagai’s. It originally had a separate two storey residence at the rear. The north store was being run by Fong Joe in 1948, and then by Ming Neau Lee by 1954. When Ah Ming died in 1964, the business passed to Kwok Cheung Yu, who retains ownership. Various businesses have occupied the stores in recent years.

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Old Tang Wei Cafe & Residence

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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The single storey timber framed building with break pitch front verandah is zero setback to the symmetrical street frontage, and has a substantial double storey at the rear. The timber framed building is clad with horizontal corrugated iron. The gabled roof is clad with corrugated iron.

History

Tang Wei was born in Kowloon in 1908. He worked on a steamer and arrived in Broome in 1928. He worked for Clarke and then Norman as a pearling crew member. During World War Two, he was ordered to stay in Broome to work in the bakery, baking bread for the servicemen. In 1946, he married Lexie d'Antoine. He worked as a diver for Alf Morgan, becoming head diver for the fleet, before retiring in 1958. He purchased the Carnarvon Street property in 1953 and opened a restaurant there, living in the residence at the rear with Lexie and their four children. Tang Wei's long soup restaurant was a Broome icon, patronised by everyone from the football crowd on Sunday evening to the Shire councillors. Pearling masters and their families came to Tang Wei's for Christmas parties and business dinners. In 1984, he closed the restaurant but continued to occupy the residence. In the 1990s, the shop was leased by Kimberley Kreations. In 1999, Tang Wei represented the Chinese community of Broome as patron of the Shinju Matsuri festival and unveiled the hard hat divers memorial on Carnarvon Street. The residence continues to be occupied by Tang & Lexie Teresa Wei while the front has been leased and occupied by various businesses in more recent years.

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Old Police Lockup & Boab Tree

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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Statement of Significance

It has social and historical importance to the Town, partly from its earlier use as a historical museum.

Physical Description

A single storey formed concrete and iron cell block which used to form part of a group with the Police Station and Courthouse. Built ini 1894 it is still largely intact and is being used as a base for the community radio organisation

History

Assessment 1983

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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The single storey concrete building has a gable roof clad with corrugated iron. It is rectangular in form with four cells adjacent to a corridor along the other side.

History

Police Lockup was constructed in 1896 as part of the police station, police quarters and courthouse. The cells were used to hold prisoners awaiting trial or in police custody. Most of the early occupants were either Aboriginal, a deserter from a ship or a pearl thief. Aboriginal prisoners were chained to steel rings set in the concrete floor to prevent escape at night. In 1897, Police officer Herbert Thomas planted the Boab Tree near the corner of the police quarters he was occupying with his wife, to commemorate the birth of his son, Frederick, on 3 March. Thomas was transferred out of Broome a few years later. Frederick Thomas was killed at Pozieres on 28 July 1916, and in 1920, Herbert Thomas returned to Broome as Inspector and senior officer. He died in December that year during the race riots, after remaining on duty for three days without eating or sleeping. In 1965, a new police station was built on another site. Everything except the Lockup and the Boab tree were removed from the site. The Lockup was occupied by the Historical Society as a museum until 1981, then by a community radio station, and a blacksmith business and café, and more recently galleries.

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Modifications: Minimal interventions for adaptive re-use.

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Kinney's Store

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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The double storey timber framed building with single storey front shop and verandah is zero setback to the street frontage. The timber framed building is clad with horizontal corrugated iron.

History

Kinney's Store, and the adjoining premises occupied by Bob's Shoe Store and Anastasia's Pearl Gallery, were formerly part of T. B. Ellies' store. Thomas Bastion Ellies was a jeweller and pearler, and the most famous of the Broome pearl cleaners. He took a ten-year lease on premises in Napier Terrace in 1906. In 1919, he purchased part of Lot 4, the site of Kinney's store, where a billiard saloon was operating on the corner of John Chi Lane. The billiard saloon was still operating in 1922, and Ellies purchased the adjoining portion of Lot 3 that year. The building on that site was a former residence. Ellies ran his jewellery store from these premises. When T. B. Ellies died in 1937, the premises passed to other members of the Ellies family. In 1976, Peter and Beverley Kinney and Brian County purchased the Lot 4 property.

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Bob's Shoe Store

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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Cottage

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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Shire of Broome advised that planning approval for the demolition of this building was granted on 23 December 2004, and that demolition took place between 28-29 December 2004.

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Offices

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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Statement of Significance

Offices is significant for the associations with for early professional services in Chinatown. It is an element in the streetscape and contributes to the character and townscape of Broome’s town centre.

Physical Description

Located on a sloping site, the building is raised on round concrete piers. The single storey timber framed building with enclosed perimeter verandahs. The timber framed building is clad with horizontal corrugated iron.

History

This was the offices and residence of the local solicitors. The solicitors were H. D. Forbes and Walter Clarke Hall. Forbes lived at 17 or 19 Barker Street, so Hall must have occupied the residence here. H.D. Forbes was also known as Koko and was renowned for his miniature plasticine art. The solicitor's offices were conveniently situated opposite the old Courthouse and police lockup.

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Modifications: Offices has undergone alterations.

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Offices

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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Sun Picture Gardens

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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Sun Picture Gardens, a rare example of a purpose built picture garden still in commercial operation. It is one of the oldest operating picture gardens in Australia. It is an integral and distinctive part of Broome’s social life, contributing greatly to the community’s sense of place and identity.

Physical Description

Double volume street frontage featuring a double gable clad with horizontal corrugated iron. The front is two levels with an outdoor (uncovered) seated area and recent screen and double storey accomodation facility at rear of the site.

History

Sun Picture Gardens was built in 1916, as a half-open and half-roofed cinema. The site was originally occupied by the Yamasaki emporium, which sold Asian foodstuffs, clothing and household goods. Master pearler Ted Hunter purchased the site and had Claude Hawkes design a cinema suitable for the Broome's climate. The place could accommodate 1,500 people. It opened on 6 December 1916 and segregated seating according to nationality continued until 1967. A moveable stage on tramlines was added in 1926 and used for school concerts. It was moved behind the screen in the early 1940s and converted to caretaker's quarters. In 1953, J. & P. Haynes leased the place and operated for 28 years. In 1981, after television was introduced to Broome, Sun Picture Gardens closed due to low attendances. In 1982, Lord McAlpine bought it and reopened. In 1987, Anthony Hutchinson and Marisa Ferraz purchased it and restored it and established Sun Pictures International Film Society showing films outside mainstream. The decline in television and video popularity in the mid 1990s, saw a resurgence in cinemas. Sun Picture Gardens is also a concert and wedding venue and is a tourism destination.

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Modifications: Extensive restoration, and new construction at the rear, in recent years.

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The picture gardens make a significant contribution to the townscape and have always been associated with prominent people in the town. Part of a group of essential character elements in Chinatown.

Physical Description

TImber framed, corrugated iron walls and roof.

History

Originally built by the Yamasaki family as a dry goods store, the building was converted to a Japanese play house, then a picture theatre in 1926. The last owner/operator was Peter Haynes who for many years was president of the Shire. Closed & derelict at time of assessment (July 1982)

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Hanoe's Cottage

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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The Broome Historical Society advises that Ah Fat's cottage was demolished, but that Hanoe's Cottage (also listed at this place number) still exists.

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00291 Chinatown Conservation Area

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The single storey timber framed corrugated iron clad building has a hipped corrugated iron roof extending over the verandahs that have hinged shutters above the corrugated iron dado. Raised from the ground on concrete stumps, the place comprises a single room with verandahs on 3 sides. The roof features an original and distinctive Broome wind scoop.

History

The name Hanoe's Cottage comes from Donggi Hanoe, a Broome engineer, who acquired the place in 1954. It was owned prior to that by seaman Adam Snait. The date of construction is not known. Another similar cottage on an adjoining site, known as Ah Fat's, has been removed. The place has been occupied by the Short Street Gallery in recent years.

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