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669 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy North

Google Image 2024

I am yet to research this property in terms ...

15 Marion St, Fitzroy

Today, there are almost no houses left on Marion Street, but it used to ...

440 Rae Street, Fitzroy North

Google Image July 2024

The first advert for this property was the ...

464 Rae Street, Fitzroy North

Google Image - July 2024

This site looks like it was never ...

201 Gore Street, Fitzroy (Goldington)

Google Image - June 2019

I don't yet know a lot about ...

37-47 Westgarth Street, Fitzroy (Westgarth Terrace)

The photo above shows the current 39 Westgarth Terrace on the ...

436 George Street, Fitzroy

This house has always intrigued me, as it sits on its own on this ...

127-129 Kerr Street, Fitzroy

There is no record of anything on this corner spot of land (North East ...

Smith, John Matthew Esq. (1816-1898)

John Matthew Smith hails from Ludston Hall, Warwickshire where he studied law and was ...

309-315 Gore Street, Fitzroy

Trade operated from this site as early as 1865. The first person residing here ...

21 Palmer Street, Fitzroy

The buildings around this end of Palmer Street have been replaced, and I haven't ...

66 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

This site no longer exists as it is the current site of the Atherton ...

24 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy (Drake House)

In January 1920, Harold Crawford registered the rear of 24 Brunswick Street as a ...

89 Condell Street, Fitzroy

In January 1920, Mrs Rose Simmons made an application to the Council to enable ...

71 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

This site no longer exists. I think it might have been where the Brotherhood ...

148 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

In 1899, the location near the corner of Hanover Street was a hairdresser and ...

233 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

This corner building in 1900 was inhabited by F Graham a painter and seller ...

94 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

Fitzroy Press, Jan 5, 1899

The original building on this site was ...

132-134 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy (London Hotel)

It would appear this site was a hotel from at least 1881 when the ...

130 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

This street number will likely change as I progress with the research on this ...

Cecil Street

Cecil Street, Fitzroy | Hidden Melbourne have created an amazing virtual tour of Cecil ...

Fitzroy Street

Image from Mark Hassed - Hidden Melbourne - A tour down Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy, ...

159 Rose Street, Fitzroy

I am yet to fully research this house. It was built later than many ...

56 Church Street, Fitzroy North

Purportedly built in 1890.

During the 1900's the building was renovated, requests ...

Smith Reserve, Alexandra Pde, Fitzroy

In 1876 J M Smith appeared to own all of Section 85 of Fitzroy ...

16 George Street, Fitzroy (Drill Hall)

There is an amazing building in Fitzroy that is little discussed, it is the ...

54-64 Leicester Street, Fitzroy

This is the site of the old Snap Industrial Laundry. The site is currently ...

365 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy

The current site of Mukka, an Indian establishment and favourite of Fitzroy for the ...

263 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy (Godfrey 2)

Opposite Godfrey 1 at 266-274 Brunswick Street is Godfrey 2. Another impressive terrace. This ...

80 Kerr Street, Fitzroy

I am yet to research this house, but a reader supplied me with an ...

76 Kerr Street, Fitzroy

I am yet to research this house, but a reader supplied me with an ...

131 Kerr Street, Fitzroy

The little wooden house. I am not sure when it was built but it ...

133-135 Kerr Street, Fitzroy

This street is amazing. I am sure you can tell that these are not ...

78 Kerr Street, Fitzroy

Yet to research - this lovely house, but see below for two photos from ...

56-58 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

This location needs more work, the buildings on this corner of Brunswick and Gertrude ...

62 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

This building was initially a bakery owned by Francis Clark who built the Devonshire ...

34-38 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy (Devonshire Arms Hotel)

Built by Francis Clark in the early 1840s and now considered to be Melbourne's ...

248-250 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North

Yet to research the lovely cafe Tin Pot and its history, but this photo ...

294 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy

This little house was once home of the Horan family. Thomas Patrick Horan (8 ...

266-274 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy (Godfrey 1)

This impressive building at 266-274 Brunswick Street (on the south east corner of Victoria ...


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