Pioneer Park or Pioneer Reserve is a public park situated between Pakenham, Short, Phillimore and Market Streets in Fremantle, Western Australia. It is across the road from the Fremantle Railway Station.
| Pioneer Park | |
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 Pioneer Park from Phillimore Street | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Heritage-listed park |
| Location | Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Coordinates | 32°03′11″S 115°44′44″E / 32.053076°S 115.74547°E |
| Type | State Registered Place |
| Part of | West End, Fremantle (25225) |
| Reference no. | 22572 |
The Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is located within the park.
The name was made after the area ceased to be associated with the earlier names of Uglieland Fairground and Uglyland.[1] The fairground had operated between 1922 and 1936 and was opened as the Pioneer Reserve by governor James Mitchell in 1942.[2]
As the park adjoins Short Street on its south side it has also been known as part of the Short Street Precinct[3] and has also been the site of archaeological digs.[4]
In 2021 the park was utilised by homeless people, and their presence created significant reactions from local government and state politicians in the months before the Western Australian 2021 state election.[5][6]
Notes
edit- ^ "PIONEER RESERVE". The West Australian. Vol. 56, no. 16, 789. Western Australia. 25 April 1940. p. 6. Retrieved 21 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Entrance to Uglieland, 1920, retrieved 21 December 2016 -see the summary for the photo -
- ^ McIlroy, Jack; National Estate Grants Program (Australia) (1989), Historical archaeological assessment of Parry St car park and the Short St precinct/Pioneer Park Reserve Fremantle, W.A, J. McIlroy], ISBN 978-0-7316-9850-9
- ^ McIlroy, Jack; Bolton, Samantha; Fremantle (W.A.). Council (2008), The excavation of an 1840s cottage complex in Pioneer Park, Fremantle : an addendum to the Phillimore Street Precinct Archaeological Conservation Plan, retrieved 21 December 2016
- ^ "Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettit calls for tent city to be cleared". 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
- ^ "Tent city shut down in Fremantle by state government". Retrieved 27 January 2021.