Original post 2 May 2020
I was looking for something nice to post, but I found this instead, which still makes me mad – this great 1928 mural (actually an oil painting) by #NapierWaller graces/d the vestibule of the grand #TandGbuilding in #CollinsStreet, and was open to the street for everyone to enjoy – but in 2018 they somehow got a permit to turn that area into shop, and plonk display cases on the boundary, so now you have to look hard to see it, and there’s lights in the way. I never did get a satisfactory answer from the @cityofmelbourne how that happened, except maybe it was cod it was an ‘interior’ (which it’s not) and so heritage listing didn’t apply. 🙄 Hardly any fuss at the time from memory either, lost in the unbridled joy of having a new Versace store.
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I went in take a look today and was so disappointed that it’s now obscured by lights in the Versace shop. He gentleman with the beard in the mural is my great grandfather.
the only plus is that the worker said they are not permitted to touch or alter it, it has to remain.
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As far as I understand it, it’s not actually protected ! But good that they think it is.
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