#Picturesque but actually #symmetrical – the 1934 #MockTudor shops on the corner of Toorak Road and Grange Road. Designed by Leslie Reed (not #RobertBellHamilton as previously thought), they were built in front a Victorian house, you can see the chimneys round the side, where they just plastered the walls with #halftimbering. The front much more creative, with paired #jerkinhead roofs, the central bay #jettying out twice, and very steep #gables either side, like #HanselAndGretel ! I think he was trying to outdo the 1932 Tudor across the road which was by Robert Hamilton, but those ones just a little more nice detail. The ones next door on #Toorak Rd are quite good too, rough brick, and slightly wonky timber work, complete with #adzing marks.
Couldn’t work out what this sign on the #TudorRevival shops in #ToorakVillage said, till I realised it was on the corner of Grange and Toorak Rds hence GRATORAK, amiright ? Also what are those fish-duck things carved into the #bargeboards ?
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My Mother worked upstairs for a MISS HOGG dressmaker in the 1930’s.
Ilma Nichol she was a beautiful sewer. Her garments were so well made the inside was just as beautiful as the outside!
Miss Hogg and staff dressed all the ladies for important Melbourne events. If they had ‘a lady’ who would put on airs and graces she would be ‘accidentally’ stabbed with a pin!
Favourite saying: All the money in the world cannot buy style! She could wear a hessian bag and look a million dollars!
Margaret (Hunter) Wild.
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