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The Museum will be closed for Australia Day, Wednesday January 26th
As from January 31st, 2022 in accordance with COVID requirements ALL visitors over the age of 16 will need to show proof of double vaccination in order to enter the Museum.
Opening times are as follows:-
Our opening days are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. (NO Saturday or Monday or Tuesday’s at this time.)
Our hours are 10:30 am – 3:00 pm.
PLEASE NOTE Our last entry is at 1:00 pm.
Allow approximately 2 hours for a visit
Photo ID required for entrance
Wheelchair access available
ACROD parking allowed on-site
Adults $15
Seniors/Concession $10
Child (6-17) $10
Family Group (2+3) $35
For School and other group tours
refer to details in Bookings
Over the next few days, we will share the story of the three doctors, Lovegrove.
Thomas Henry Lovegrove was born in Sussex in 1845. In 1867 he was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and appointed a medical officer in the Western Australian Convict Service by the Imperial Government. He was stationed at Bunbury as Resident Medical Officer and later gazetted Police Magistrate for the Blackwood district and created a Justice of the Peace. He acted in 1885 as Resident Magistrate and Chairman of the Court of Petty Sessions. For five years, from 1885, Dr Lovegrove was appointed Government Resident, magistrate, and mining warden at Kimberley while also attending to public health questions. In 1890/91, Dr Lovegrove was Acting Colonial Surgeon with duties including chairman of the Medical Board and chairman of the Central Board of Health. Subsequently, Dr Lovegrove returned as a resident medical officer and police magistrate at Blackwood. Here, the Mounted Volunteer Corps having been disbanded, he set to work and formed the Bunbury Rifle Volunteers, himself taking the command.
In 1895, Thomas Lovegrove was appointed Colonial Surgeon (later Principal Medical Officer for Western Australia). As such as part of his duties to visit, supervise and see to the proper maintenance of Hospitals at Fremantle, Bunbury, York, Northam,
Geraldton, Derby, Roebourne, Wyndham, Vasse, Albany, Newcastle, Esperance, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Menzies, Cue, Hall's Greek. Guildford, and Beverley. Concurrently he was District Coroner for Perth and Fremantle. On two occasions, he has represented Western Australia at inter-colonial conferences.
During his tenure as Principal Medical Officer, he managed a smallpox epidemic (including a blitz on child vaccination), introduced measures to rid milk of tuberculosis bacilli, oversaw the introduction of x-ray technology and promoted the improvement of town water supplies to control typhoid. Thomas Lovegrove retired as Principal Medical Officer in 1909 but remained as chair of the Medical Board until 1922. He continued to practice medicine to cover the shortage of doctors during World War 1 and died in 1927.
WA Army Day @armymuseumwa later this month #museum #fremantle #infreo #perthisok #13thbrigade #army #australianarmy
This portrait was taken in 1940 and features members of the Albany Forts Cricket Team who played His Majesties Australian Ship Sydney side. Anyone recognise one of these faces or know a Bluey Morris? #cricket #albany #albanywa #westernaustraliancricket #waca #anzac #australianarmy
The 1st Contingent departed Fremantle on 7 November 1899 and returned on 29 December 1900. The 2nd Contingent left on 3 February 1900 and returned on 8 December 1900. Due to the shortage of khaki material, the 1st Contingent uniforms wore their blue militia tunics, blue puttees and a dark blue puggaree on departure. An Anglo Boer War Service of Reconciliation is held annually on the first Sunday in June at the "Fallen Soldiers" (Boer War) Memorial in Kings Park. The date selected is the closest Sunday to the signing of the Treaty of Peace of Vereeniging (31 May 1902). The culmination of the service is the laying of the Emily Hobhouse wreath. This image is from 1899. #fremantle #infreo #freolife #fremantleharbour #boerwar #australianarmy #military
