Rottnest Island is around 22 kilometres from the Port of Fremantle in Western Australia. It is a popular holiday destination. In 1997 a movie was filmed on Rottnest, named Under the Lighthouse Dancing. A house was specially constructed for the filming and later transported to a spot on the Swan River at Bicton.
It is unknown how much the transporting and construction on the riverside block cost. The block itself must have been worth a small fortune. I reckon the neighbours must have been taken aback at the strange house in amongst the millionaires’ dwellings.
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Film prop at Rottnest Island
Now overlooking the Swan River
Bicton Baths where I learned to swim
by myself some 70 years ago.
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I did a straw-bale home workshop at this house 20 or so years ago with a company called Huff and Puff. The house was owned by Peter and it had no door. You can walk up into it from the street by a stone stair under the house, he had a small bunk room with a door in a corner. It has attic pines growing in the front that grow a natural symbiotic looking hedge growing together on top. There is Rufus Herons perching everywhere among the branches, if you look really carefully you will see one and then if by magic you will see lots of them. It is a memory I have being at the home and I just found this by searching Rottness Island home on google image. Peter said it was from the island and the logs it is put onto was logs from the old Mandura bridge I think he said. I would like to go back to look at it again if its still there someday.
Regards Tim Osgerby
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