“Originally a hotel (de-licensed early C20th), then leased in the early 1940s to Goodwill Service Fellowship (group of Christian Pacifists) led by Frank Coaldrake Bursar, Brotherhood of St. Laurence; during war years, the building housed Conscientious objectors who undertook work in Fitzroy for the duration When Alfred Charles Clarke went to live there, he described it as a communal boarding-house and headquarters of the Pacifist Movement as “good fun” : after the war, the University of Melbourne SRC took over the lease (taken out in the names of Prof. ‘Pansy’ Wright and Prof. Brown). When the building was sold to a Mr. Tilley, he wanted to get the students out, but was unable to do so. Building was known as “Marijuana House”” (Fitzroy Library)
