Category: victorian
Original post 17 October 2019 10,12 and 14 #PowlettStreet, #EastMelbourne, 1886, and all named after English counties, where of course most Melburnians came from in the 19thC. Three #terracehouses all the same in a row but oddly with a space between them rather than an actual row with shared #partywalls. Most terrace houses were #buildtorent, … Continue reading Thinking of ‘home’, Devon, Exeter and (something), East Melbourne
Original post 17 July 2020 Time for my annual pilgrimage to see Finn Barr, in Cecil Street, #SouthMelbourne in winter, this time with my wide angle. Here’s what I said in 2017: Built in 1885 for local doctor WH Ford, who obviously wanted to make a statement! A #terracehouse with a facade and tower worthy … Continue reading Finn Barr, South Melbourne, 1885
Original post 8 July 2020 This grand building for the ‘Australian Church’ once stood on #FlindersStreet near Spring though - the 1887 sketch is all I knew of it, and I wondered if it had ever been built. Then @heraldsunphoto_retro popped up with a great photo from c1900, showing it next to Griffiths Teas, and … Continue reading The Australian Church, Flinders Street, 1887-1920s
Original post 9 April 2020 When I first saw a photo of this I was like OMG what a feast ! Delicious ! It seems like most of the really OTT #highvictorian things were lost on the 1950s-60s, and this was right up there ! The #PemierPermanent Building Society, on #CollinsStreet south side just down … Continue reading Premier Permanent, Collins Street, 1887, not so permanent.
Original post 27 February 2020 Linden in #AclandStreet is quite a survivor! While all around it were converted to flats, or demolished and replaced by flats, and St Kilda went from exclusive residential, to flats, and then cheap flats, the Michaelis family, who had built it in 1870, stayed on ! It was designed by … Continue reading Linden, Acland Street, 1870
Original post 27 February 2020 Repost 2020: St Kilda still surprises - another hidden mansion ! Behind the Spanish style flats at 39 #AclandStreet, there’s a completely intact big house, pretty much the same as the one next door, no 41, but that one never got flats built in the front yard. Both built by … Continue reading Hidden heritage in St Kilda No 2
Original post 19 February 2020 Photo 16 November 2019 I wonder if a window has been filled in (I think I can see a vague outline) and what if anything was exchanged here ? #AlbertParkVillage. And here's proof from an insta follower :
Original post 18 February 2020 Photos 3 December 2019 I pass this nearly every day on the way to the shops or the tram - and now I finally know that yes it was built as a bank like I thought. Designed by #ReedHendersonAndSmart and built 1890 (the year #JosephReedArchitect died of ‘inanition’) it was … Continue reading Another ex-bank, St Kilda.
First posted Instagram 5 February 2020 This hasn’t changed appearance since the 70s, back then it was just ‘chinese food’, and now it gets 5 stars. A Victorian shop with an open verandah above like that is pretty rare, only one on a corner I can think of; though it’s possible the 50s/60s shopfront replaced … Continue reading Unusual Victorians in Collingwood on opposite corners
First posted 1 February 2020 While I’m on #lostmelbourne, there’s the famous ones, but there were quite a lot of ornate #highvictorian ‘chambers’ like this that mushroomed in the 1880s and disappeared in the 50s-70s, mostly with only a few photos now in archives - and @heraldsunphoto_retro has a great collection slowly filling up their … Continue reading Oxford Chambers, Bourke Street, 1889-1970
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
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