• Trusty mutt Tahoe ‘The Wolf of Quarry Street’ makes regular visits to Freo Guitars (above). COULD Freo Guitars be the first ever boutique guitar store in the port city? […]

SOUTH Fremantle local July Wiggins couldn’t find a pair of bathers that fitted her properly, so she decided to make her own. The former teacher came up with a design […]

THINKING outside the box comes naturally to Fremantle local Maggie McGuire. After her marriage broke-down, aged 64, she was out of work and came up with the idea of Maggie’s […]

POLIMENO Nominees is one of the last upholstery businesses in Fremantle. Their huge South Terrace workshop is a mishmash of fabric swatches and works in progress, including chairs and seats […]

BURNING bridges isn’t just a metaphor for landscape gardner Cherise Haslam. After 12 years as a remedial massage therapist she had had enough and burned nearly all of her client […]

IRONICALLY, Carl Girolamo hates repairing boats. “I started off making boats and doing boat repairs,” says the Extreme X Sailmakers co-owner, “but I lasted about a week – I hated […]

YOU could spend hours in Old Values, rummaging through boxes of mysterious items that wouldn’t look out of place on the Antiques Roadshow. But the Holland Street shop doesn’t pretend […]

A MAJOR career break for emerging Australian scriptwriters is being decided by a man in a warehouse in South Fremantle. The Australian Script Writing Opportunity was launched by Warner Brothers, […]

SACKS of grain and stainless steel fermenters jostle for room with brewing paraphernalia and ingredients at TWOC Brewing Supplies. The Bibra Lake shop opened 27 years ago, long before craft […]