Talk:Fremantle, Western Australia

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Assessment comments The following comments were left by the assessors: (edit · refresh) Very important city with long history. Willing to collaborate on this.Fred.e 16:26, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] earlier comments

Fremantle, Australia has been moved to Fremantle, because there is only one Fremantle(unless you count the guy it's named after). -- Tim Starling 08:57 Mar 6, 2003 (UTC)

Quite surprised that Fremantle has so little content. Are there any Perth editors who are Freo based that can contribute? There is a lot of history in Freo that can be told, and certainly you'd not be a true Perth person without spending part of your childhood in Freo or eating at Cicerello's at least.

I'm pretty sure the image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fremantle_tagged_gnangarra.jpg has the train station tagged incorrectly. To my knowledge, the train station is actually not visible in the photograph, being to the right of the harbour control building. -- G solon 19:03, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree. The green turret dome belongs to Barwil House which is about 4 blocks south-west of the train station on cliff street. The arch-looking structure (which probably caused the confusion) appears to be part of the modern innards of one of the buildings between Mouat and Henry streets. MuJoCh 21:02, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree to the tagged bulding is on the west side of the park opposite TS which is on the north side inthe image under the first crane, I'll re tagged and place a new image there shortly Gnangarra 10:00, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pronunciation

Are we sure that "Fr^emAntle" is universally pronounced as "FrEEmantle"? I've been here for over 40 years, and the only people I ever heard use "FrEEmantle" have been po English migrants -- and only a few at that. Gordon | Talk, 05 November 2006 @05:35 UTC

I lived around there for 25+ years, and I think the pronunciation section of the article is pretty accurate. And I'm not a ~~pommy~~ English migrant either ;) - Gobeirne 08:35, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Born here > 50 years ago. But I suspect an "old money" class preference for "Fr^emAntle". Callophylla 04:41, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I live way over on the other side :p - I always thought it was exactly the opposite to what it appears to be saying in the article. An untutored reader (such as myself) would pronounce it with the first syllable enunciated as FREE, whereas a local would shorten that up to sound like FRUH. So there you go.

Either way, can we move it to somewhere other than the leading paragraph. It seems as if it plopped there after some pub brawl on the issue. I also gave it over to WP:WA, Stirling's camp be damned! - Fredmantle

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