page_title: Coogee Hotel
section_title: Post office and store
hierarchical_section_title: Coogee Hotel / Post office and store
caption_attribution_description: English: A group of men in uniforms stand in front of the Coogee Hotel holding instruments.
context_page_description: The Coogee Hotel is a historic former hotel and orphanage located in Coogee, seven kilometres south of Fremantle in the City of Cockburn. After the Second World War, it was used as an orphanage by the Anglican Diocese of Perth. The building still stands on Cockburn Road, and is heritage listed by the State Government of Western Australia. In 2020, it is being redeveloped as a restaurant.
context_section_description: In the mid-1920s, a small limestone building was erected on the hotel grounds, just to the north of the hotel itself. This was originally run as a store, serving the surrounding area with smallgoods and groceries. It was built by a Mr. Burnett, whose daughter Ruby married Powell's son, Frank, and whose family initially ran the store. It was taken over by Jock McKinnon, who married Powell's daughter Lottie. There was a post office and store located less than a mile to the south of the hotel, run by Powell's sister Blanche and brother Fred. Upon their retirement in 1927, the post office was relocated to the store on the hotel land. On her death in 1951, Lottie McKinnon was known as the postmistress at Coogee.
caption: A group of men in uniforms stand in front of the Coogee Hotel holding instruments.
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