20 November 2023

There’s a good array of shop tops at the south end of Glenferrie Road, Malvern, dating from the 1880s and early 1900s. The first one is particularly elaborate, and still has all its urns, the last one is a bank from c1905 that looks like it’s 1880s, except for the slightly baroque door details. There’s a couple of 20s banks which I’ll post later.

Gravity defying pediments on this one, dating from 1903.

Cute little Neoclassical bank further down towards Malvern Station. Built for the ES&A bank in 1925, designed by Oakley & Parkes, an early work of theirs. This is the most boldly Classical suburban bank I know, to the point of having no front windows. It’s had many uses in recent decades, luckily they didn’t want windows either. Protected as part of the Glenferrie Road precinct. Early photo from @stonningtonlibraries.

Spotted in Glenferrie Road Malvern, looks like a contemporary Brutalist revival, but it’s an interesting c1970 original. That’s all I know about it except that it’s been cleaned up since 2018, last pic, painting some of the concrete block, but not destroying its character. Was a vacuum cleaner place for a long time.

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