Original post 2 June 2020
Photo Jan 2020
The random bits of #columns in the sunken courtyard at the back of the #collegeofsurgeons in Spring Street were discovered when they were digging it out in c2005 for new wings – they’re all that’s left of the the ‘model school’ that was built there in 1854, designed by #FMWhite. Looks like it got extra wings later, and there was a portico on the west side where think columns like these might have come from. Not exactly sure what a model school was, but think perhaps a state funded one when they were reasonably rare. After 1905 it became a state high school, one of the first, with the boys moving out to Melb Boys High in 1927, and he girls to Macrob in 1934, and then it was demolished.
Storey of Melbourne 