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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade, c.1905

EAST MELBOURNE

  • Victoria Parade

Building names

  • Eastern Hill Fire Station
  • Fire Services Museum
  • Salvation Army Training College

Surnames

  • Webb

Subjects

  • Eastern Hill Fire Station
  • Salvation Army Training College
  • Terrace houses

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Acquisition number: 
1727
Catalogue number: 
emvf0990
File name: 
VF0990
File location: 
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Postcard, BP Series, colour print. The reverse is divided into a space for a message and a space for the address.  This format first appeared in Australia in 1905.

Shows Victoria Parade looking east from near the corner of Nicholson Street. In the foreground is a cable tram travelling north along Nicholson Street. The central focal point is the watchtower of the Eastern Hill Fire Station, built between 1891 and 1893. The building now houses the Fire Services Museum of Victoria.  To its right the castellated building is the former Salvation Army Training College, built 1901. The building is now a façade to a carpark. Further to the right, on the corner of Nicholson Street, four houses of a six-unit terrace are shown. The three-storey terrace was built of bluestone. It was constructed 1853-54 and designed by J and C Webb, architects.* Now demolished.

*Argus, 30 Apr 1853, p.2; 25 Oct 1853, p.3; 16 Oct 1954, p.8; 20 Nov 1854, p.8. Tenders

 

Item type: 
Postcard
Building name: 
Salvation Army Training College
Building name: 
Eastern Hill Fire Station
Subject address: 
8 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne
Item size: 
8.4x13.8 cm
Date of publication or creation: 
1905c
History of item: 

Purchased eBay

Year acquired: 
2023
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