Val Noone and Mary Doyle
Download the Transcript: FHS-Val-NooneMary-Doyle-2015 Val Noone and Mary Doyle have lived in the same house in Gore Street since the 1970s. They began their time in Fitzroy with an open house which included homeless people and draft resisters in King...
Antoni Shapardanis
Download the Transcript: FHS-TonyMary-Carol-2015 Antoni Shapardanis (Tony) was born in 1938 in Bouf (now Akrita) a small town only a few kilometres from the Yugoslav border. Tony’s father, Chris Shapardanis, emigrated to Melbourne in 1939 leaving his...
Tony Birch
Download the Transcript: FHS-Tony-Birch-2016 Tony Birch is a novelist, poet and short story writer who often draws on his childhood growing up around Fitzroy and Collingwood for his writing. Born in 1957 in Carlton, he speaks about the Housing Commission...
Ted Rush
Download the Transcript: FHS-Ted-Rush-2016 Ted Rush came to Fitzroy in the 1970s and soon became heavily involved with the Council through the ALP, before becoming Mayor after only three years. He talks about the work of the Council, changes to a more...
Suzanne Dance
Download the Transcript: FHS-Suzanne-Dance-2016 Suzanne Dance completed her Architectural degree before working in the Government Architects office in Sydney where as a recent graduate, she worked in a team designing schools alongside several well-known...fitzroyhistorysociety.org.au fitzroyhistorysociety.org.au fitzroyhistorysociety.org.au fitzroyhistorysociety.org.au fitzroyhistorysociety.org.au
The Fitzroy Cyclorama, built in 1889, was one of the first two in the city of Melbourne....
Here is an interesting collection of Fitzroy's gas lamps....
Beating the Bounds" (or boundaries) is a ceremony of great antiquity from England and Europe. It also occurred in Fitzroy....
Back in 1906 postcards from Fitzroy existed. Here is a collection of ten....
Hidden Melbourne has published a virtual tour of one of Fitzroy's most interesting streets – Fitzroy Street....