by Mark Hassed | 10 Oct 2024 | Article, Fitzroy people, Fitzroy places
258 Gore Street In 1859, the Bible Christian Church was constructed at the south east corner of Gore and Greeves Streets (278 Gore Street). The church acquired more land at the southern end of the same block (258 Gore Street on corner of St David Streets) in 1865. By...
by Mark Hassed | 15 Sep 2024 | Article, Fitzroy people, Fitzroy places
Looking Back by Chris Lermanis By Chris Lermanis Further to my book launch : In 2015 Loretta Florance in a review of my photographic exhibition at The Colour Factory for the ABC wrote: In 2015, a two-bedroom terrace house in inner-city Fitzroy is likely to cost you...
by Mark Hassed | 15 Sep 2024 | Article, Fitzroy people, Fitzroy places
By Mike Moore 101 Greeves Street, built by James Linacre for himself in 1855. James Linacre (1814-1877) migrated to Victoria as a stone mason from Derbyshire in 1844. He prospered here as a builder and contractor of roads and bridges, public buildings and private...
by Mark Hassed | 11 Sep 2024 | Article, Fitzroy people, Fitzroy places
20 Bell Street today By Mike Moore This building was erected in 1867. Some of the early occupants were surgeon Gustavus Matt (1867), Mrs Spooner’s Fitzroy Ladies College (1881-88), Charles Shaw dairy (1894), Joshua Moss fruiterer (1895-1910) and Fitzroy councillor...
by Mark Hassed | 2 Jul 2024 | Article, Fitzroy people, Obituary
Obituary Barry Pullen Barry was founding member of the Fitzroy Residents Association and Fitzroy city councillor 1972–1976. He was very active in campaigning against the high rise Housing Commission of Victoria flats being built in the 1950s and 1960s. Barry and his...
by Mark Hassed | 11 Jun 2024 | Article, Fitzroy people
by Mike Moore “Mr J. E. McGinty, so well known and highly esteemed as an auctioneer, house, land and estate agent, of 107 Gertrude-street, has just completed his fiftieth year of residence in Victoria. The whole period, almost without a break, has been spent in...