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 Post subject: Re: Melbourne photo for the day
PostPosted: 16 Jul 2009, 09:22 
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Ohh I love that reflected crane image, lovely.

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Apartments on Simpson St in East Melbourrne. Does know/ can hazard a guess at the date? I was thinking 1950s?


Looks like a mix of late World War II and early postwar flats.

probably built in stages with the flats on the right first (probably ~1939 but further modified possibly in the 1960s), the flats on the left second (probably ~1945) and then the middle third (~1954). Nice evolution from stripped classical to moderne to early modern....


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Thanks, that would make sense if it had been built/renovated in stages.

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 Post subject: Re: Melbourne photo for the day
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Eliza Tinsley Pty Ltd sign on Bourke Street. A little piece of NY in Melbourne.


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Odd how a sign can be so evocative - great little shot Mr Pitt.

Here's a snap of Bourke St after a hail storm, dated 1901 - really nice picture:

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J.v.d.A. wrote:
Odd how a sign can be so evocative - great little shot Mr Pitt.

Here's a snap of Bourke St after a hail storm, dated 1901 - really nice picture:

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That's an awesome picture J.v.

I really wish it would snow in Melbourne.

It snows on occasion in Ballarat.

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Snow and Victorian era buildings were somehow meant for each other ...


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J.v.d.A. wrote:
Odd how a sign can be so evocative - great little shot Mr Pitt.

Here's a snap of Bourke St after a hail storm, dated 1901 - really nice picture:

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The almost-deserted street is a marvellous contrast to the traffic-choked scene we are confronted with in the present day. Imagine the peril those three gents would be in!

And I always loved the incongruity of a company going by the name Eliza Tinsley being a supplier of blokey things such as building products and related hardware. The firm still trades in the UK, although it went bankrupt in 2006 and is now owned by an Indian company. Eliza Tinsley must have pulled out of Australia a couple of decades ago. I notice Tinsley Corporation Limited (formerly Eliza Tinsley Limited) was de-listed from the Stock Exchange in 1986 "following failure to pay annual listing fees".


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