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The Hope Building (now Bibblewicks) 69-71 Foster Street This three-storey white brick building is covered in white siding and has a mansard roof. The roof is covered in tin and there are three dormers in it. Each is a pediment gable, with a square-headed window. Each window has two sashes with two panes in each. The roof eave is a bracketed overhang. Each of the three windows on the second floor is segmentally headed, with a keystone and a cut-stone surround- head, a stone sill and two sashes. The Hope Brothers continued in business here until 1938 selling stoves and ranges and manufacturing all types of tin and copper ware and stovepipes. They also handled hardware, household goods, farm and garden tools and all types of cheese factory supplies, as they had interests in three cheese factories. After the business closed, the building had a wide variety of occupants. Business included a grocery store, a dry goods store, an appliance store, the co-op food store, a children’s clothing shop, an appliance store, a florists and a restaurant and at the present time, a pub.
Photograph, c1880’s, from the archives of the Perth
Museum, Rusty White Collection |