Dalgety Wool Stores, Heritage building complex in Fremantle, Australia.
Dalgety Wool Stores is one of the large woolstore buildings on the southern side of Fremantle Harbour, with a frontage on Queen Victoria Street. It was one of the two larger wool operations in the port, alongside the nearby Elders Woolstore on Elder Place. The building stayed a notable feature of the Fremantle landscape long after wool storage there ended.
Dalgety Woolstore was one of at least four large woolstore buildings on the southern side of Fremantle Harbour, and with Elders Woolstore it was one of the two larger operations. In the 1940s the building was used to store locally grown tobacco for sale. Wool storage later ended, but the building remained a notable feature of the Fremantle landscape, with a frontage on Queen Victoria Street.
The name comes from Dalgety and Co., the wool firm whose store this was, one of the two largest operations among the Fremantle woolstores alongside Elders. In the 1940s the building was used to store locally grown tobacco for sale, a change of use visitors would not expect of a wool warehouse. The building fronts Queen Victoria Street.
The building sits on a main street in central Fremantle and is easy to reach on foot. Visitors can explore the exterior and the surrounding neighborhood, which give a good sense of how the area has transformed.
The Dalgety woolstore stored locally grown tobacco for sale in the 1940s, a use that set it apart from the other Fremantle woolstores. Its Queen Victoria Street frontage makes this former warehouse easy to pick out in the streetscape south of the harbour.
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