Freo Today. 31 August 2025. And here’s Leake Street, right in the centre of Fremantle running between Market and Pakenham Streets. These days it’s mainly a parking lot for Police vehicles backing on to the Cop Station that fronts High Street. In a couple years the street will be restored to the citizenry of Freo when the new, flash Fremantle District Police Station is completed in South Terrace near Fremantle Oval. In the meantime, there’s a nice symmetry to Leake Street being a Police parking lot, as the street is named for George Leake, one of the first British settlers in the new Swan River Colony, who arrived in the 1829 on the Calista and, among other things, was the first Resident Magistrate of Fremantle in 1839.