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SHIRE OF COLLIE LOCAL GOVERNMENT HERITAGE SURVEY

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PLACE NO: 044 Site - 101 Throssell Street, Collie

STREET ADDRESS: 99-101 Throssell Street, Collie

CERTIFICATE OF TITLE DETAILS: Lot 3 on DP6831 CT 10/365A

LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: For information purposes only

CURRENT USE: Vacant site

PREVIOUS USES: Shop

DEMOLISHED: Yes

CONSTRUCTION DATE/S: After 1909

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CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Brick and iron

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HCWA DATABASE NO: 6255 Commercial Centre (fmr) – Vacant Site, 101 Throssell Street, Collie

0543 Throssell Street Precinct (Mungalup Rd – Steere St South)

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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: 101 Throssell Street, Collie has been demolished. It is not considered to have any heritage significance.

It was included in the 1996 Shire of Collie Municipal Heritage Inventory and the record has been retained for information purposes only.

HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: On 21 May 1909 a fire started in the shop of WE Smith, a tailor and spread rapidly through the eight wooden shops between the Colliefields Hotel and the Crown Hotel. The Southern Times of 25 May 1909 reported that the businesses destroyed as GW Hartley, grocer; WE Smith, tailor; CAF Bond, chemist; R Waters, baker and confectioner; N Glaris, fish saloon; E Reynardson, furniture warehouse, E Watt, newsagent and the Ezywalkin Boot Co, boot merchants. Property loss was estimated at £2,000 with total losses, including stock and equipment at £4-5,000. The vacant blocks on either side of the row of shops protected the Colliefields and Crown Hotels. Most tenants were living on site.

Sunday Times 6 June 1909, p6S

In the months following there were a number of newspaper references to the construction of new shops on Throssell Street.


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Throssell Street, Collie west from Steere Street, ca 1910 (024836PD www.slwa.wa.gov.au with permission)

The photograph above shows that 101 Throssell Street was the part of a four bay building comprising 55-58 Throssell Street. The Post Office Directories do not provide street numbers for Collie until 1934. From 1935 until 1939, Collie Meat Supply (David Forgan, butcher) is listed at the site. Dave Forgan is listed in Collie from at least 1924. From 1940 until 1949, JF Pike operates a butcher’s shop at the address. Pike had another store at 28 Forrest Street. From 1945 until at least 1947 (the records for 1948 are missing), Griffin Coal Mining Co Ltd are also listed at 57 Throssell Street. In 2016 the site is vacant. Information on the demolition of the building is not readily available in Council records. It is thought that the place was demolished some decades ago. Photographic evidence suggests that the place was the western third of a building of which only the eastern third remains.


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Collie Meat Supply, Throssell Street (Western Mail 25 April 1935, p25)

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Historic site

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Date Integrity Authenticity Condition

2016 None None None


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PLACE NO: 045 103 Throssell Street, Collie

STREET ADDRESS: 103 Throssell Street, Collie (formerly 58)

CERTIFICATE OF TITLE DETAILS: Lot 4 on DP6831 CT 10/340A

LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: Some

CURRENT USE: Shop

PREVIOUS USES: Shop



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HCWA DATABASE NO: 6256 Fish and Chips Shop, 103 Throssell Street, Collie



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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Shop 103 Throssell Street, Collie, a single-storey brick and iron shops constructed in after 1909 has cultural heritage significance as part of the early commercial and retail centre of Collie and, although much of its original detailing is lost, aesthetic value for the contribution it makes to the streetscape of Collie.




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Throssell Street, Collie west from Steere Street, ca 1910 (024836PD www.slwa.wa.gov.au with permission) The photograph above shows that 58 Throssell Street was the western-most part of a four bay building comprising 55-58 Throssell Street of which only the eastern and western portions remain. The Post Office Directories do not provide street numbers for Collie until 1934. From that time, and until 1945, FW Avenell, chemist is listed at the address. Avenell is not listed in Collie prior to 1934. From 1946 and until the Post Office Directory records cease in 1949, EC Knight, chemist is recorded.

FW Avenell, Chemist Throssell Street (Western Mail 25 April 1935, p24) PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:


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Shop, 103 Throssell Street, is a single storey brick and iron commercial building. It has a single room frontage, with a re-entrant door to the left, and a glazed front. The window and door is not original. The rendered parapet has a simple curve and there is a suspended steel awning over the pavement.


Contributes to the heritage of the locality. Has some altered or modified elements, not necessarily detracting from the overall significance of the item.

Conservation of the place is desirable. Any alterations or extensions should reinforce the significance of the place, and original fabric should be retained wherever feasible.


2016 High High Fair-Good


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PLACE NO: 046 Shop, 105-107 Throssell Street, Collie

Audino’s Delicatessen, Lindaz Central Deli (105)

STREET ADDRESS: 105-107 Throssell Street, Collie (formerly 59-60)

CERTIFICATE OF TITLE DETAILS: Lot 706, Vol/ Fol: 1338/ 524


CURRENT USE: Shop

PREVIOUS USES: Shop




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HCWA DATABASE NO: 6257 Audino’s Delicatessen, 105 Throssell Street, Collie



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105 Throssell Street (3 Feb 2016)

107 Throssell Street (3 Feb 2016)

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Shops 105-107 Throssell Street, Collie, a pair of single-storey brick and iron shops constructed after 1909 has cultural heritage significance as part of the early commercial and retail centre of Collie and, although much of its original detailing is lost, aesthetic value for the contribution it makes to the streetscape of Collie.




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The above photograph (dated about 1910) shows 59 and 60 Throssell Street: the western most single storey building. Architectural detailing to the parapet is missing. The Post Office Directories do not record street numbers in Collie until 1934. It is likely that 59 Throssell Street (left of the two tenancies) was occupied by the Beehive Drapery (proprietor WC White) from 1934 until 1938. Stan Croker is also listed at the address in 1938. From 1939 until 1949 when the Post Office Directory records cease, Les J Milroy, mercer, is listed. There is no listing for 60 Throssell Street (right tenancy) until 1940 when Corot and Co, frocks and millinery are listed until 1949. Corot and Co were listed previously at 80 Throssell Street. Pak-it Computers opened at the address in January 2015. A truck collision caused damage to the verandah in late 2015. It is owners intention to replace the damaged verandah with a bullnose style verandah consistent with that shown in early photographs. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Shop, 105-107 Throssell Street, is a single storey brick and iron commercial building. The rendered parapet has simple decorative features, with painted capping, echoed in the steel awning over the pavement. There are three slender steel supporting posts to the verandah. The shop facades are glazed. No 105 has a central, re-entrant door. No 107 is currently closed off to the public with steel mesh fencing. The original bullnosed verandah has been replaced with a flat roof verandah.





2016 High Medium Good


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PLACE NO: 047 Shop,109 Throssell Street, Collie

STREET ADDRESS: 109 Throssell Street, Collie (formerly 61-62 Throssell Street)

CERTIFICATE OF TITLE DETAILS:

LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: Exceptional

CURRENT USE: Shop

PREVIOUS USES: Shop


ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Filigree


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REGISTER OF HERITAGE PLACES: RHP – to be assessed

HCWA DATABASE NO: 6258 Shop Front and Upstairs Residence 111 Throssell Street, Collie



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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Shop, 109 Throssell Street, Collie, two-storey brick and iron shop constructed after 1909 in the Federation Filigree style of architecture has cultural heritage significance. As a two-storey building with an intact second storey verandah, it makes a significant aesthetic contribution to the Collie streetscape and if forms part of the early commercial centre of Collie.


Sunday Times 6 June 1909, p6S In the months following there were a number of newspaper references to the construction of new shops on Throssell Street.


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Throssell Street, Collie west from Steere Street, ca 1910 (024836PD www.slwa.wa.gov.au with permission) Whilst the date of construction of 109-111 is not known, the place is shown in the above photo from around 1910. The Post Office Directories for Collie do not record street names until 1934. There is no specific reference to 60 Throssell Street until 1940-1949 when Corot & Co, frocks and millinery are listed. Corot & Co were listed previously (1934-1938) at 80 Throssell Street. In 1933, Corot and Co advertise stores in Perth, Fremantle, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Throssell Street, Collie29 PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Shop, 109 Throssell Street, is a two storey brick and iron commercial building in the Federation Filigree style of architecture. The walls are red face brick. There are rendered bands at head height on the top floor, and rendered sections below the windows to the ground floor. The roof is hidden by a decorative parapet which has four finial features and stucco detailing including a central scroll. The upper floor verandah roof is separate from the parapet and has a simple timber frieze, timber balustrading and posts, not original. The ground floor has two entrances and glazed shop front windows.


Essential to the heritage of the locality. Rare or outstanding example.

The place should be retained and conserved. Any alterations or extensions should reinforce the significance of the place, and be in accordance with a Conservation Plan (if one exists for the place).


2016 High High Fair

29 Western Mail 28 December 1933, p90S


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PLACE NO: 048, Shop, Crown Hotel, 113 Throssell Street, Collie


CERTIFICATE OF TITLE DETAILS: Lot 95 of DP 222257 CT1015/ 384


CURRENT USE: Shop

PREVIOUS USES: Shop




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HCWA DATABASE NO: 0545 Crown Hotel (113 Throssell Street, Collie)



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Eastern Wall November 2015

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Crown Hotel, 113 Throssell Street, Collie, constructed in the Federation Filigree style of architecture in about 1901, has cultural heritage significance. Although its second-storey verandahs and much of the detailing has been lost it makes a positive contribution to the streetscape of Collie. It has historic and social value as an important social venue for generations, having been in continuous operation as a hotel since 1901 and it contributes to the community’s sense place.

HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: The Crown Hotel is first recorded in the Post Office Directories in 1902 with F W Crow as proprietor. Mr Crow was recorded at the Colliefields Hotel in the previous 2 years. The Southern Times of 20 July 1901 (p3) records the opening of the Crown Hotel and describes it as a ‘valuable addition to the houses of accommodation at Collie’. The building is a very commodious one and is fitted throughout with the most up-to-date furniture and appliances.’ The article describes the hotel’s facilities including the spacious vestibule, dining room (24 x 20ft), ‘unusually well fitted suite of kitchens’, commercial room, sitting room, bar, saloon bar and billiard room. Fourteen rooms, including a drawing room, club room, eleven bedrooms (mostly single bed) and two bathrooms (one each for ladies and gentlemen) were located upstairs. The balcony measured 66 x 12 feet. The hotel, which was to open on 20 July 1901, cost approximately £3,000 with an additional £750 for furnishing. The hotel would be managed by Mr and Mrs Crow. The Post Office Directories only show Mr Crow at the Crown Hotel in 1902 with JH Luke recorded for the next three years. The next nine years see a number of licensees at the hotel until AA McManus is shown in the Directories from 1915 to 1923. William Potter, P Meagher and WE Chick are listed at the Crown Hotel between 1926 and 1934, followed by RF Gray from 1935 until 1940, and AC Rigg from 1942 until 1949 when the Post Office Directories cease. 1921 saw hotels in Collie and elsewhere delicensed. An earlier poll had determined that at least one, but up to three, hotels in Collie should be delicensed. During the enquiry is was stated that both the Crown and Victoria Hotels ‘were in the centre of the town and were very necessary for the continuance of business, and that if either of these licences were affected it would cause very great public inconvenience’. The enquiry determined that the Miners Arms Hotel on Throssell Street should be the only hotel to lose its licence (South Western Times 17 September 1921, p5) The Crown Hotel was sold by the Ginninup Vale Pastoral Company for £10,000 to Mr E Morgan in March 1929 (The West Australian 21 March 1929, p18). In January 1930, it was sold again, this time to the Swan Brewery for £13,250.


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(Western Mail, 28 November 1935, p10) The Sunday Times reported that Mr Roy Gray, proprietor of the Crown Hotel for nearly 5 years, proposed alterations to the hotel at a cost of more than £2,000 (20 August 1939, p20). In 1940 proposed improvements to the hotel were reported, including a 50ft main bar, saloon bar, a lounge, large entrance hall and tiled front walls. Five new rooms and four bathrooms and a septic system were proposed at a cost of £700 and refrigeration system (£600) would be installed. Total cost of the works was approximately £5,000 and was to be undertaken by the licensee (RF Gray) and the Swan Brewery Ltd (The West Australian 3 February 1940, p16). The reconstructed and refurnished Crown Hotel was opened by the Mayor, Mr J Morrison (The West Australian 1 July 1940, p14). Mr and Mrs Alan Pascall of the Crown Hotel were farewelled in July 1952. Mr and Mrs Powell took over management of the hotel (Sunday Times 20 July 1952, p24S).

The Crown Hotel continues to operate as a hotel with accommodation available. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Crown Hotel, built c1910 is a two storey painted/renderd brick and iron hotel in the Federation Filigree style of architecture, with a central decorative half circle to the parapet roof. It has lost its original upper storey verandah roof and balcony. There is a flat steel shelter above the windows of the uppoer floor, and a suspended iron roof over the pavement. Door and window openings to the ground floor have arched heads. On the top floor the door has been closed off. There are six timber sash windows to the upper floor facing the street. The west side of the buiding is red face brick. The east aide abuts the adjacent building with a dividing fire wall.





2016 High Medium Fair – Good


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PLACE NO: 049 Shop, Bilbe’s Buildings (fmr), 115 Throssell Street, Collie

STREET ADDRESS: 115 Throssell Street, Collie (formerly 65-66)

CERTIFICATE OF TITLE DETAILS: Lot 2 on DP300311 CT1535/ 794


CURRENT USE: Restaurant

PREVIOUS USES: Shop

CONSTRUCTION DATE/S: c1900

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Anglo-Dutch

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Brick

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HCWA DATABASE NO: 0543 Bilbe’s Buildings (115 Throssell Street, Collie)



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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Bilbe’s Buildings, 115 Throssell Street, Collie, a two-storey brick and iron commercial building constructed in about 1900 in the Federation Anglo-Dutch style of architecture has cultural heritage significance as a substantial commercial building which forms part of the early commercial centre of Collie. Although some of its ground-floor detailing has been lost, the place makes a significant aesthetic contribution to the streetscape of Collie. a two-storey building

HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: The Post Office Directories record Mr A Bilbe in Collie from 1902 until 1925. Arthur Bilbe was a grocer who was prominent in the business and civic life of Collie. It appears that Mr Bilbe had diverse business interests as he advertised widely for bullock teams and for a farm manager. Other advertising sought ‘a competent engine driver’ at Bilbe’s West Collie Sawmills.30 In 1920 the Post Office Directories list A Bilbe, farmer. In 1919, Bilbe was selling a farm, located about 6 miles from Collie.31 Bilbe and his wife, Mary Ellen appear in the Collie Post Office Directories again from 1933 until 1938, listed during this time at 65 Wittenoom St. Bilbe, who had been living in West Perth, died in 1950.32 In May 1909 it was reported that Mr Hartley had recently purchased Mr Bilbe’s business (Sunday Times 25 May 1909, p5). The shop which Mr Hartley was about to vacate was burnt to the ground in the fire of 21 May 1909 which destroyed properties between the Colliefields Hotel and the Crown Hotel on Throssell Street.


Bilbe’s Buildings is shown at the far right of the photograph above, taken in about 1910. The Post Office Directories do not list street addresses until 1935. At that time, and until 1938, AH Knox, pastrycook is recorded at 65 Throssell Street. AH Knox is recorded in Collie from 1927. There is no specific listing again until 1945 when J Dimovitis, café, is shown followed by Mrs M Murrary, restaurant in 1946, J Rossiter in 1947 and KG Atterton, restaurant and J Rossiter, restaurant in 1949.

30 The West Australlian 11 August 1909, p10 31 The West Australian 6 November 1919, p3 32 The West Australian 19 October 1950, p26


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The place has been used as a Chinese restaurant since at least 1995 when it was known as the Lantern Chinese Restaurant.33 In 2016 it operates as the Golden Eagle Chinese Restaurant. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Bilbe’s Buildings (fmr), 115 Throssell Street, is a two storey painted brick commercial building. The upper floor is painted brick with a painted rendered parapet. The parapet has decorative stucco detailing, including ‘BILBE’S BUILDINGS ESTBD 1900’ in a central triangular pediment with classical motifs along each side, and four balled features which form a distinctive silhouette, in the Federation Anglo-Dutch style. Windows to the upper floor are strong vertical elements. There is a steel awning over the pavement and a modern shopfront to the ground floor, with original windows covered over or lost, and steps up to the main entrance.





2016 Medium Medium Fair

33 Draft Shire of Collie Municipal Heritage Inventory 2010, p816


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PLACE NO: 050 Shop, 117 Throssell Street, Collie (formerly 68 Throssell Street)

The Big Store (GG Iddon) Cresswells Department Store

STREET ADDRESS: 117 Throssell Street, Collie

CERTIFICATE OF TITLE DETAILS: Lot 703 of DP300311 CT1535/ 795

LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: Considerable

CURRENT USE: Computer Shop

PREVIOUS USES: Shop, Drapery, Department Store, Milk Bar


ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Elements of Federation Anglo-Dutch

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Rendered brick and iron

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HCWA DATABASE NO: 6259 Sugar Shack Milk Bar (117 Throssell Street, Collie)


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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: 117 Throssell Street, Collie has cultural heritage significance as part of the early commercial centre of Collie and for the contribution it makes to the streetscape of Collie.

HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: Haydn’s is advertised as being located between the Crown and Victoria Hotels in 1908. AW Haydn is first listed in the Post Office Directories in 1902 and appears as AW Haydn, storekeeper from 1904 until 1909. In 1902 the Western Mail reported a fire in Mr AW Haydn’s drapery establishment adjoining the Crown Hotel.34

Bunbury Herald 16 April 1908 p1

In January 1909, a gathering of ‘prominent business men and representative citizen gathered at the Victoria Hotel…to entertain Mr AW Haydn, who is shortly leaving Collie’.35

GG Iddon, store, is recorded in the Post Office Directories from 1921 until 1933. An historic photograph36 dated c1922 shows a group of people and vehicles at the front of ‘The Big Store: GG Iddon’. The Directories do not include street names in Collie until 1935. In 1936, W Knuckey, draper, is recorded at 65 Throssell Street. Wm Knuckey, draper is recorded in earlier years (1934-35) but not at a specific address. From 1937 until 1949 when the Post Office Directory records cease, the West End Drapery is recorded at 65 Throssell Street.

During the 1990s, ‘The Sugar Shack’ milk bar operated from the building, and later Cresswell’s Department Store. In 2016, the shop is occupied by Pak-It Computer store.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: The commercial building at 117 Throssell Street is a single storey iron shop, built c 1910. It has a triangular gablet to the parapet that hides the roof, and a suspended steel verandah roof over the pavement. The façade is glazed with an entry door, not original. The building abuts two storey buildings on each side.


Very important to the heritage of the locality. High degree of integrity/authenticity.

Conservation of the place is highly desirable. Any alterations or extensions should reinforce the significance of the place.


2016 High High Good

34 Western Mail 4 October 1902 35 Southern Times 7 January 1909, p3 36 www.slwa.wa.gov.au 024852PD: The Big Store (GG Iddon), Throssell Street, Collie c1922


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PLACE NO: 051 Victoria Hotel 119 Throssell Street, Collie (formerly 70 Throssell St)




CURRENT USE: Hotel

PREVIOUS USES: Hotel

CONSTRUCTION DATE/S: (1898) c1910


CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Rendered Brick and Iron

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HCWA DATABASE NO: 3655 Victoria Hotel (119 Throssell Street, Collie)

0542 Throssell Street Precinct (Mungalup Road – Steere St South)


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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: 117 Throssell Street, Collie, a two-storey brick and iron hotel constructed in about 1910 has cultural heritage significance as one of the two original hotels in Collie. It has aesthetic value as a good example of a hotel constructed in the Federation Filigree style and makes a positive contribution to the streetscape of Collie. It has social and historic value as a hotel which has been in continuous operation since its construction, providing an important social venue for generations and contributing to the community’s sense of place.

HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: In 1897 JC Cox applied for, and was granted, a wine and beer license for premises in Collie that had cost over £500 to construct. The application was opposed by Mr Thomas Carrigg of the Collefields Hotel.37 In June 1898, a publican’s license was granted to John Charles Cox ‘the proprietor of premises on the Collie Coalfield for which he holds a wine and beer license’.38

Bunbury Herald 5 January 1899

In May 1899, reference is made to Brook’s Victoria Hotel.39

The Victoria Hotel first appears in the Post Office Directories in 1900. In 1900 and 1901 Reginald Webb is recorded as the licensee although the licence was transferred from Webb to Harold John Robinson in 1900.40

The Victoria Hotel was sold in December 1902 to Mr Hobart ‘at a satisfactory figure’.41 In March 1903, PC Hobart was granted a licence for his ‘extended premises at the Victoria Hotel’.42 By 1906 JC Braidwood is the licensee. In 1907 Braidwood took over the Gordon’s Hotel in Bunbury.43 WE Naughton is listed from 1908 to 1912 and AR Richardson from 1913 to 1918 and WA Richardson for the next two years.

Collie Mail 29 April 1916

37 Bunbury Herald 7 December 1897, p3 38 Bunbury Herald 7 June 1898, p4 39 The West Australian 29 May 1899, p7 40 Bunbury Herald 7 June 1900, p3 41 Bunbury Herald 12 December 1902, p2 42 The West Australian 4 March 1903, p9 43 The Blackwood Times 18 October 1907, p3


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EE Cox (also Cocks) is listed from 1922 until 1925, followed by Solomon and Mrs Bercove, Thomas Mathieson, Gunnell & Humphries and Mrs E Wilson until 1932. In 1933 AE Watson is listed on his own account with both Watson and G Connell listed the next year. Connell only is listed in 1935 and 1936. W Miles is the occupant from 1937 to 1939. EW Cocks is then listed from 1940 until the Post Office Directory records cease in 1949.

In 2015, the Victoria Hotel continues to operate as a hotel and is known as ‘The Vic’. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: The Victoria Hotel is a two storey brick and iron hotel built in 1900 in the Federation Filigree style of architecture. It has a simple parapet with decorative centre detail, and four balled decorations (one broken), and a bull nose verandah roof to the upper storey with timber balustrade. There is a verandah over the pavement supported by square timber posts on concrete bases, with simple timber brackets and timber fretwork. The façade is render/painted brick. There are arched heads with moulded plaster detailing over doors and window heads. Windows and doors have top lights; some of which are either painted over or covered. The side walls are red face brick. From Mungalup Road the hipped corrugated iron roof and a red brick chimney are visible.





2016 High High Good


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PLACE NO: 052 121 Throssell Street, Collie (formerly 71 Throssell Street)

Victoria Buildings (Bird)


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CURRENT USE: Shop

PREVIOUS USES: Shop

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HCWA DATABASE NO: 6260 Shop Front (121 Throssell Street, Collie)



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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: 117 Throssell Street, Collie has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons:

• It forms part of the early commercial centre of Collie; and

• It contributes to the streetscape of Collie.

HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: A photograph dated about 1910 shows signage indicating that Chas. Habel Saddler and an auction house were located at the site in a single storey building with a bull-nosed verandah44.

Street names are not included in the Post Office Directories for Collie until 1935 at which time EA Griffith, auctioneer is listed at 71 Throssell Street until 1940. EA Griffith was listed in the Directories as a commercial agent from as early as 1912.

Great Southern Leader 13 March 1931

There is no further reference to 71 Throssell Street in the Post Office Directories.

In 2015, the place is used as a shop and occupied by a pharmacy/chemist.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:

121 Throssell Street is a single storey brick building with shop front windows either side of the off centre- double door entry (not original). There is a suspended steel verandah roof and a simple parapet that hides the roof.





2016 Medium Medium Good

44 www.slwa.wa.gov.au 024838PD: Street Parade, Throssell Street, Collie, ca 1910


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CURRENT USE: Shop

PREVIOUS USES: Newspaper office, Grocer, Commercial Bank, Shop, Residence


ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Bungalow

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Brick and tile

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HCWA DATABASE NO: 6261 Aussie Fried Chicken (123 Throssell Street, Collie)



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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: 123 Throssell Street, Collie, a single storey brick and tile commercial building constructed in about 1912 in the Federation Bungalow style of architecture has cultural heritage significance as part of the early commercial centre of Collie and for the contribution it makes to the streetscape of Collie.

20 November 2015 from Mungalup Road

20 November 2015 Throssell Street

21 June 2014

HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: Street names are not listed in the Post Office Directories for Collie until 1934. At this time, the occupant of 73 Throssell Street is listed as the Bank of NSW, with HE Forwood as manager. The Post Office Directories list the Bank of NSW from 1926, with Forwood as manager. Prior to that Mr Forwood is listed as the manager of the WA Bank.

Forwood is listed as the manager of the Bank of NSW until 1937. From 1938 until 1941, HH Conroy is the manager, followed by HW Harrold in 1942. By 1944 (there are no Post Office Directories available for 1943), and until 1949 when the records cease, the occupant is listed as the Commercial Bank with DR Davey as manager.

In 2015, the site no longer operates as a bank and is occupied by ‘Spry’s on Throssell’. Signage indicates that from 2014 it was occupied by ‘Collie Farm Factory Direct’ and in 1995 by Aussie Fried Chicken.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 123 Throssell Street is a former bank built c1912 in the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. It is brick with a hipped and gabled tiled roof with terracotta finials and timber louvred gables to the front and back. The Throssell Street frontage has been modified for a shop with a flat roofed iron roof over the entrance that protrudes from the original roofline. There are canvas bull nose awnings over the windows either side of a central glazed door. Plaster pilasters and rendered brickwork up to window sill height emphasise the entry. Around the corner the Mungalup Rd elevation is rendered brick. The steel shop signage wraps around at roof level, but the orignal tiled roofline is


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visible behind. There is a tall brick chimney with concrete corbelling and two chimney pots. To the rear of the buliding there is a skillion Colorbond roof and a rear space enclosed with a garage roller door, louvres and brick.





2016 Low-Medium Medium Fair - Good


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PLACE NO: 054 125 Throssell Street, Collie (formerly 74 Throssell Street)

Commonwealth Bank, Collie Miners Credit Union




CURRENT USE: Credit Union

PREVIOUS USES: Bank, Shop, Manager’s Residence


ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Post War International

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Brick and Iron

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HCWA DATABASE NO: 6262 Commonwealth Bank (fmr) (Coal Miners Credit Union) (74 Throssell Street, Collie)


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PLACE NO: 056 Motel and Restaurant

Henri’s Restaurant, Collie Motel

STREET ADDRESS: 127-133 Throssell Street, Collie (formerly 75-83 Throssell Street)

CERTIFICATE OF TITLE DETAILS: Lots 124 – 127 & Lots 600 & 601 CT 1038/602


CURRENT USE: Motel and restaurant

PREVIOUS USES: Shops, Butcher, Boarding House




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Henri’s Restaurant – Eastern end of motel complex (3 Feb 2016)

Western driveway (3 Feb 2016)

Western end of motel complex (3 Feb 2016)

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: 129-133 Throssell Street, Collie a single storey brick and tile motel and restaurant development is not considered to have heritage significance.

It was included on the 1996 Shire of Collie Municipal Heritage Inventory and the record has been retained for information purposes only.

HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: The Collie Motel is located over four lots on Throssell Street, Collie. Henri’s Restaurant occupies part of Lot 124 at the eastern edge of the site on Throssell Street.

Prior to the change in the numbering of places on Throssell Street, the site comprised 75 – 83 Throssell Street.

Street names were not included in the Post Office Directories for Collie until 1934. At that time, 75 Throssell Street was occupied by H Barnes, followed by W Hancock, printer in 1935. In 1938, a butcher, Ern Clayton is listed. There are no further specific listings at the address.

In 1934, Hancock the printer is listed at 76 Throssell Street. From 1935 to 1937, both E Clayton, and William H Stephens, tobacconist and hairdresser are listed. From 1938 to 1941 only Stephens is listed at the address. There are no further specific listings at the address.

There are no listings for 78 Throssell Street.

From 1936 to 1949 when the Post Office Directory records cease, GJ Brennan’s store is listed at 79 Throssell Street.


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Corot & Co frocks and millinery is listed at 80 Throssell Street from 1934 until 1938. From 1939 Corot & Co is listed at 60 Throssell Street.

Western Mail 25 April 1935, p23

From 1940, Smith and Co, furniture dealers was listed at the address. They are still at the address in 1949 by which time they are listed as drapers and furniture dealers. In 1940, William Smith and Co Ltd of Hay Street, Perth advertise that they have a number of branches including one at Collie.47

81 Throssell Street is occupied by Syd Proffitt, sadler from at least 1934 until 1944.

There is no specific listing for 82 Throssell Street.

In 1935 HG Stacey is listed at 83 Throssell Street, followed by Mrs A Scott in 1936 and Mrs EJ Scott in 1937. In 1938 and 1939 Edwin J Scott, butcher is listed. By 1940 and until at least 1947, Mr Scott and then Mrs Scott operate a boarding house from the place. In 1949, T Griffiths is listed at the address.

Around 1966 the motel was constructed as part of the Auto Motels chain.48

Henri’s Restaurant is located on the north western corner of the site addressing Throssell Street. It is likely that the restaurant was constructed at the same time as the motel. The restaurant is named for the motel’s manager during the 1980s and 1990s, Henri Williams.49

In 2016, the restaurant and motel continue to operate.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: The site is located over four lots. The restaurant is painted brick with a low pitched hipped roofed, with a steel parapet. A brick firewall divides the restaurant on the street front from the adjacent building (125 Throssell St). The two storey motel is set further back from the road and has a hipped tiled roof and steel balcony balustrades.


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47 Daily News 3 February 1940, p5 48 Shire of Collie Local Government Heritage Inventory 2010 DRAFT unpublished 49 ibid


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STREET ADDRESS: 135 (84) Throssell Street, Collie

CERTIFICATE OF TITLE DETAILS: Lot 140 of DP 404249 CT 2876/ 798


CURRENT USE: Dwelling

PREVIOUS USES: Dwelling


ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: Federation Arts and Crafts


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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: House, 135 Throssell Street, Collie has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons:

• It contributes to the streetscape of Collie.

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HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: Street addresses are not included in the Post Office Directories until 1934. William J Henderson, plumber is listed in 1933 and in 1934 but not at a specific address. In 1936 and 1937 he is listed at 3 Medic Street. In 1938, William Henderson, plumber is listed at 85 Throssell Street with his private residence at 84 Throssell Street. Both these listings continue until the Post Office Directory listings cease in 1949.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 135 Throssell Street is a single storey, face brick and tile residence built in the Federation Arts and Crafts style of architecture. It has a conspicuous tiled roof with multiple gables, a recessed porch and tall chimneys. There is a projecting room with gable that features timber framed sash windows each side of a fixed pane, and a tiled window hood over. The porch has a triple paned door. There is a masonry balustrade to the raised verandah and a column supporting the roof. The front boundary has a red brick low fence capped with white render and a wrought iron gate. The house abuts the shop to one side that aligns with the boundary fence. MANAGEMENT CATEGORY: Contributes to the heritage of the locality. Has some altered or modified elements, not necessarily detracting from the overall significance of the item. Conservation of the place is desirable. Any alterations or extensions should reinforce the significance of the place, and original fabric should be retained wherever feasible.


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Henderson’s Hardware

STREET ADDRESS: 135-139 Throssell Street, Collie (formerly 85 Throssell Street)



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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: 137 Throssell Street, Collie, a single storey brick and iron commercial building has cultural heritage significance for its long association with the hardware and plumbing industry and with plumbers Mr WG Luce and Mr Henderson who both operated from the site.

HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: Street addresses are not included in the Post Office Directories until 1934. William J Henderson, plumber is listed in 1933 and in 1934 but not at a specific address. In 1936 and 1937 he is listed at 3 Medic Street. In 1938, William Henderson, plumber is listed at 85 Throssell Street with his private residence at 84 Throssell Street. Both these listings continue until the Post Office Directory listings cease in 1949.

Mr WG Luce, a plumber who is recorded as living in a house at the then 86 Throssell Street (now 139 Throssell Street) is thought to have operated from this property prior to Mr Henderson, perhaps since 1923.50 Mr Luce died in 1937 having worked until a few days before his death.51 It is likely that Mr Henderson relocated to this site, taking over the business, following Mr Luce’s death.

The business was advertised for lease in April 1951 with J Henderson as the contact.52

Figure 1: The West Australian 27 April 1951, page 28

William Joseph Henderson was operating a plumbing business in Collie in 1953.53

The store continues to operate as Henderson Hardware in 2017.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: The red brick single storey shop is attached on the east side to a residence, 135 Throssell Street. The shop has a glazed front with metal signage above, on a suspended roof that projects over the pavement. No steel rods are visible. The parapet above is featureless painted render. Behind the parapet is a red corrugated iron hipped roof. There are modification to the west side with a steel shelter attached.





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50 Shire of Collie Local Heritage Inventory 2010 DRAFT unpublished 51 The West Australian 11 August 1937, p7 52 The West Australian 27 April 1951, p28 53 The West Australian 29 July 1953, p17


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STREET ADDRESS: 141 Throssell Street, Collie (formerly 86-89 Throssell Street)

CERTIFICATE OF TITLE DETAILS: Lot 130 of DP 222257 CT 1702/931


CURRENT USE: Trade Display

PREVIOUS USES: Single storey residences




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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: 141 Throssell Street, Collie, an asphalted hardware store yard and the site of now demolished dwellings is not considered to have any heritage significance.

The site was included on the 1996 Shire of Collie Municipal Heritage Inventory and the record has been retained for information purposes only.

HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: The dwellings at 139 and 141 Throssell Street (formerly 86, 87, 88 and 89 Throssell Street) have been demolished.

The 1996 Shire of Collie Municipal Heritage Inventory shows two houses and describes them as ‘two remaining houses which were rented out by Mr Henderson to railway employees’. Evidence suggests that there were originally four houses on the two lots54 which are thought to have been constructed for railway employees. Anecdotal evidence describes the houses as two small homes on the corner and a large house with a separate flat to the east.

Street names do not appear in the Collie Post Office Directories until 1934. At this time, the occupants of the then 86 Throssell Street were Mr G Luce and Mrs WJ Luce. Mr Luce was a plumber who occupied the premises next door. They are listed at the address until 1937. There is no listing for the neighbouring 87 Throssell Street during this time so it is possible that Mr Luce and Mrs Luce occupied the larger house and the separate flat as married couples are not usually listed separately.

There is no occupant listed until 1940 when Miss Vera Williams is the occupant. The next occupant is W Wilson from 1944 until 1946. From 1947 until the records cease in 1949, N Milligan is listed.

There is no specific occupant listed at 87 Throssell Street until Mrs R Flynn from 1947 until records cease in 1949.

James Crocker is listed as the occupant of 88 Throssell Street from 1934 when street addresses appear in the Post Office Directories until the records cease in 1949.

89 Throssell Street is first shown as occupied by F O’Donnell from 1934 until 1936. After that time he is listed at 90 Throssell Street (now 143 Throssell Street). Thomas Russell is listed in 1937 and 1938 followed by I Ainsworth in 1939 and Charles Wasley from 1940 to 1945. JM Kinsella is the occupant from 1946 until the records cease in 1949.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Historic site



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Eagle Fuels, Gull Service Station

STREET ADDRESS: 143 Throssell Street, Collie (formerly 90 Throssell Street)

CERTIFICATE OF TITLE DETAILS: Lot 49 of DP 222257 CT Vol/ Fol: 1834/ 754

LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: For Information Purposes Only

CURRENT USE: Service Station

PREVIOUS USES: Service Station

CONSTRUCTION DATE/S: c. 1920


CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Brick and Iron

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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: 143 Throssell Street, Collie is not considered to have cultural heritage significance.


HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: 90 Throssell Street does not appear in the Post Office Directories until 1936 when miner, William Hetherington is listed. F O’Donnell is listed from 1937 until the records cease in 1949. O’Donnell was listed at 89 Throssell Street from 1934 when street names are first included in the Post Office Directories for Collie. There is no indication of Mr O’Donnell’s occupation nor the use of the site.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 143 Throssell Street, Collie is a timber and iron service station building with a skillion roof. It has a double garage to one side and retail space to the other, and a projecting steel awning supported by rendered columns to provide shelter for the bowsers.


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CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Fibro and Colorbond

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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: House, 145 Throssell Street, Collie is not considered to have any heritage value.


HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: House, 145 Throssell Street first appears in the Post Office Directories in 1936 when V Atwell is the occupant. In 1937 Mrs E Payne is listed, followed by MD Mawson in 1938. C Clarke is listed from 1939 to 1945, then Mrs N Hughes until records cease in 1949.

The 1996 Municipal Heritage Inventory indicates that the place was relocated to this site from Forrest Street.55

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 145 Throssell Street is a single storey fibro and iron house built in the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. It has a hipped and gabled roof clad with recent painted corrugated iron. The façade is asymmetrical with a projecting room with a simple gable over. A lower flat roof serves as a window hood for this room and extends the length of the house along the recessed verandah. The house is raised on brick foundations, with stairs parallel to the verandah that lead up to the porch. There is a steel balustrade to the verandah and stairs. Windows are aluminium framed. There is a carport attached to one side of the house (since 2010), and a Colorbond boundary fence. Earlier images (Google Earth Feb 2010) shows a low painted brick boundary fence with steel insets, that dates from with the original era of construction. MANAGEMENT CATEGORY: Record retained for information purposes only.


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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: House, 147 Throssell Street, Collie, a single storey fibro and tile residence built in the Federation Bungalow style has cultural heritage significance for the individual and collective aesthetic contribution it makes to the streetscape of Collie.

HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION: 147 Throssell Street first appears in the Post Office Directories in 1941 when it is listed as the residence of GJ Brennan. Brennan is listed at the address until 1949 when these records cease. The Directories list GJ Brennan’s store at 79 Throssell Street from 1936. Mr Brennan’s residence is listed as Venn Street from 1936 until 1940. He does appear in the Post Office Directories for Collie prior to 1936.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 147 Throssell Street is a single storey fibro and tiled residence built in the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. It has a tiled roof with hips and gables, and a red brick chimney, There are exposed rafters to eaves, a deep verandah, and a projecting bay to one side. Walls are fibrous cement. The projecting bay has a tiled window awning over tmber framed windows. There is another room to the side, which may be an enclosed former verandah. The verandah has masonry piers and a steel balustrade, with stairs parallel to the street leading up to the verandah. The house is set on high foundations, such that a high brick wall to the boundary does not obscure a view of the house from the street.





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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: House, 149 Throssell Street, Collie, a single storey brick and tile house built in the Federation Bungalow style has cultural heritage significance for the individual and collective aesthetic contribution it makes to the streetscape of Collie.

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House, 149 Throssell Street, Collie does not appear in the Post Office Directories until 1942 when Fred Edwards is listed as the occupant. There is no listing for F Edwards in Collie prior to 1942. Mr Edwards continues at the address until 1949 when these records cease.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: House, 149 Throssell Street is a single storey brick and tile house built c1942 in the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. It has a tiled roof with hips and gables, and a painted brick chimney to the side. There is a deep verandah, and a projecting bay to one side. Walls are painted fibro over a high red brick foundation. The projecting bay has a flat awning over triple timber framed sash windows. The verandah has pairs of steel piers and a steel balustrade, with stairs parallel to the street leading up to the verandah. There is a low brick wall to the boundary.





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