November 2014
Lambs on Lygon Street, the long term late night souvlaki shop, has an actual stained glass window of lambs above the corner door – I thought this might be a coincidence, maybe it was once a butchers, but there a another two with different lambs – so I guess the shop commissioned them maybe in the 80s ? Update : I’m told they were created in the late 90s by @almond_glassworks.
Anyway, never been there, my interest is of course the architecture – the building itself was erected in 1888, and it’s very grand and very intact. Designed by George de Lacy Evans it’s got a lot of Queen Anne /Elizabethan elements, and all 12 timber framed shopfronts have survived intact, which is very unusual indeed. Possibly because it was at one end of the shopping strip and with the 1890s crash, might have been hard to rent until the 1980s ? Or one very conservative owner; it wasn’t subdivided until 1991.
Storey of Melbourne 