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I am yet to research this house, but a reader supplied me with an amazing photo, so I wanted to share it. Linda’s is the last photo from the late 1970s.

The little wooden house. I am not sure when it was built but it could be as early as 1863. It is the oldest house on this street. If you know more about this one – let me know. I first traced the house to Charles Riley in 1863. He owns and lives in theContinue reading “131 Kerr Street, Fitzroy”

This street is amazing. I am sure you can tell that these are not the original houses on this block. The land on which they were built was owned by William Bamber and housed three little houses. Two were brick and one was wood. These existed in 1860. By 1863, William was living in theContinue reading “133-135 Kerr Street, Fitzroy”

Yet to research – this lovely house, but see below for two photos from the 1970s. It is incredibly interesting to me how much buildings change in a short period. The first photo shows this building painted with a banister. Then about 10 years later it has had its paint removed to reveal the hawthornContinue reading “78 Kerr Street, Fitzroy”

This location needs more work, the buildings on this corner of Brunswick and Gertrude Street were removed in the late 1960s to enable the building of Atherton Gardens and the image below shows the site today. This site was owned in 1858 by Francis Clark. Francis owned a number of properties in the area includingContinue reading “56-58 Brunswick St, Fitzroy”

This building was initially a bakery owned by Francis Clark who built the Devonshire Arms Hotel. This building was likely built in the early 1850s. “The building permit for the bakery on the south west corner of Gertrude Street and Fitzroy Street is recorded on the Burchett index as being applied for in 1853, andContinue reading “62 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy”

Built by Francis Clark in the early 1840s and now considered to be Melbourne’s oldest licenced public house and Fitzroy’s oldest surviving building. Francis was the first licensee from 1843-1845 but following this it was licensed by others. It is now part of the St Vincent’s Hospital complex. Francis was born in White Roding, EssexContinue reading “34-38 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy (Devonshire Arms Hotel)”

Yet to research the lovely cafe Tin Pot and its history, but this photo below is amazing!

This little house was once home of the Horan family. Thomas Patrick Horan (8 March 1854 – 16 April 1916) was an Australian cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia and later became an esteemed cricket journalist under the pen name “Felix”. Horan Family (lived here 1868-1884) Tom’s family had arrived from Cork in JulyContinue reading “294 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy”

This impressive building at 266-274 Brunswick Street (on the south east corner of Victoria Street has the name “Godfrey 1” on the corner parapet. Almost opposite at 263 Brunswick Street is a 3-storey building with the name “Godfrey 2” on the parapet, part of a group of buildings, the others being 2-storied, that extended toContinue reading “266-274 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy (Godfrey 1)”