South Beach
Sweeping South Fremantle sand and shallows, once the terminus of the horse-tram and site of the colony's first race.
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About this audio guide
This guide to South Beach in South Fremantle follows the last morning of Charles Yelverton O'Connor, the engineer who built Fremantle Harbour and was racing in nineteen-oh-two to finish a pipeline to the Goldfields under a barrage of press accusations. It traces the newspaper campaign against him, his final note, and the labourer who found his horse riderless on the dunes here. You'll also hear how this stretch of sand once hosted the colony's first horse race and the terminus of the South Fremantle tram.
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