[1] It was pitched at a more working-class audience than its counterparts in Perth at the time, and featured verse, short stories and serials.

Beresford wrote a weekly column, "Chips by a Sandalwood Cutter", which used a fictional character to challenge the morality of the social elite.

[3] The digitisation was carried out by the National Library of Australia, and the scanned archives made available via their Trove search engine.

[5] In 1989, local resident Andrew Smith launched a new Fremantle Herald from a weatherboard house, employing an editor and small team of journalists, production and advertising staff based in East Fremantle, on the corner of King and George Streets.

A two-year trial of a paid-for version of the Fremantle Herald failed to gain support from readers and was abandoned in 2005.