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Coogee, Western Australia

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of meat workers and market gardeners a place to socialise and relax. The hotel was de-licensed in 1927, and became a holiday home for orphans under the Swan Anglican Children's Homes in 1930. In 1946 the orphans were housed there full-time. In 1968, threatened with demolition by Main Roads to build a high-capacity road through the area, the orphanage sold the hotel and moved out. It was not demolished, and was used intermittently as private offices. An extension was added in the early 1990s, and the building was heritage listed in 2001.
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The current residential area of Coogee commenced development in the 1980s. Previously it was an area of limestone ridge, small rural lots and market gardens in the west and south portions of the current suburb. Denser residential development was limited to a small area in the northwest of the current
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In 1898, Walter Powell applied for a publican's licence in Four-mile Well, Coogee. He extended and renovated the existing building, turning it into the Coogee Hotel. He traded for twenty years, until his death in 1923, fostering local sports, particularly horse racing, and giving the local community
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Restaurateur Nic Trimboli and property developer Adrian Fini bought the building from Main Roads in 2017 with the intention of opening the building as a restaurant. The restaurant refurbishment was underway in December 2019, and reopened as Coogee Commons on 5 March 2022.
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While geographically the suburb of Coogee is a relatively small and defined residential area, the name Coogee has been used extensively as a regional name and reference point. The Southern part of the neighbouring suburb of
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The main recreation reserves are Poole Reserve on Hamilton Road and Coogee Beach on the Indian Ocean. Immediately south of Coogee Beach is the Coogee Beach Caravan Park.
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in 1829, the townsite being abandoned in 1831. Settlement of the area commenced in the 1870s around Lake Coogee on Rockingham Road (the first road between Fremantle and
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is now within that portion of Munster. In December 2005 a portion of Coogee was incorporated into the new suburb of North Coogee.
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There is a single government primary school, Coogee Primary School, located in the southern portion of the suburb.
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suburb about Beach Road and King Street. That area was better known as the locality of
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The first European settlement in the region occurred with the ill-fated settlement by
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is under construction to the North-West of Coogee in the suburb now known as
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Coogee is located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of
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Perth
Western Australia

Coordinates
32°07′20″S 115°45′55″E / 32.1223539°S 115.7653339°E / -32.1223539; 115.7653339 (Coogee)
2021
Postcode(s)
Perth
LGA(s)
City of Cockburn
State electorate(s)
Cockburn
Federal division(s)
Fremantle
Suburbs
North Coogee
Spearwood
Spearwood
Cockburn Sound
Spearwood
Henderson
Lake Coogee
suburb
Perth
City of Cockburn
Lake Coogee
Nyoongar language
Earl of Munster
King William IV
Thomas Watson

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