Queen Street, Fremantle

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Queen Street Western Australia

View down Queen Street from the intersection with Henderson Street and Holdsworth Street. Queensgate Carpark and Myer building are on the left – both these buildings have been identified for redevelopment.^[1]

General information
Type	Street
Length	450 m (0.3 mi)
Major junctions
NW end	Elder Place
SE end	Henderson Street, Fremantle
Location(s)
Suburb(s)	Fremantle

Queen Street is a street in Fremantle, Western Australia that crosses High Street at Kings Square, and is located away from and west of Queens Square. It is a separate street from Queen Victoria Street, which is located 500 metres (0.3 mi) further north. The street is named after Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV.^[2]

It starts from near the Fremantle railway station and crosses Cantonment Street, Adelaide Street, High Street and finishes as a junction with Henderson and Holdsworth streets. Its extension in the 1920s was to facilitate improvements in road and tram routes.^[3]

Queen Street was the address of the 7th Heavy Brigade artillery, and 35th Fortress Company of Engineers prior to the Second World War.^[4]

Notes

^ Wilson-Chapman, Amy (13 September 2012). "Massive blow as Fremantle loses Myer store after 40 years". Perth Now. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
^ Ewers, John K. (1971). The Western Gateway: A History of Fremantle (2nd ed.). Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press for the Fremantle City Council. p. 227. ISBN 085564 050 2.
^ "Fremantle Street Improvements". The Daily News. Perth. 29 September 1925. p. 1. Retrieved 9 November 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "STATE CAMPAIGN NEXT WEEK". The West Australian. Perth. 25 November 1938. p. 20. Retrieved 9 November 2012 – via National Library of Australia.

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Streets of Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia

Fremantle city centre

Latitudinal	Northwest to Southeast: Little High Cliff Street Mouat Street Henry Street Marine Terrace Pakenham Street Market Street South Terrace William Street Queen Street Point Street Parry Street
Longitudinal	Southwest to Northeast: Elder Place Phillimore Street Short Street Leake Street Cantonment Street Adelaide Street Ellen Street High Street Bannister Street Holdsworth Street Croke Street Nairn Street Collie Street Henderson Street Essex Street Norfolk Street Suffolk Street

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