17 September 2024

Packing a punch in Danks Street Middle Park – a great curly gable thing on smallish house – as my mother would say ‘it’s all front’. Can’t find out a thing about it, but no doubt c1910 like most of the red brick Edwardian houses around it. However I did learn that the street changes name twice before getting to Fitzroy Street.

29 October 2023

An Edwardian terrace pair in Armstrong Street Middle Park, almost but not quite exactly the same (or perhaps there’s been slight alterations).. They’re designed to try to look as much like free standing houses as possible, which was more common for attached houses in the Edwardian era, along with the preference to avoid long corridors by having the entry behind the front room, along a verandah. But a rather odd plan is the result in this case, the lounge room only has tiny windows in the corner. But then Victorian terraces had living room in the middle with a window only in one corner. Maybe in the olden days the living room was for nights mostly, so didn’t need lots of light ?

Neither fence is original, the brickwork of the one on the left looks 1930s. Looking at 2009 streetview (last image) maybe the gates were original, but then they’re different heights. The one on the right looks more like an original fence, but maybe not. The picket fence there now is appropriate fir the period.

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