Hi there everyone out there walking your Wednesdays in the only way you can- with style, wandering, wondering, learning and capturing everything in your path, in front, behind, beside, above and below.
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So I had a wet, but wonderful Wednesday Walk through historically significant part of Brunswick in Melbourne as I was heading to a friends home last week and just have to share these range of historical #architecturalanddesign delights with you, as well as the fabulous flowers.
Such as these old terrace houses, unfortunately I couldn't find a date though...
So to start of with a bit of blooming beauty on one of the many street side gardens featuring flowers, fabulous flowers flourishing along this otherwise gray bitumen road.
You can't keep me in lockdown forever, says the flowers to the fence
As this was such a diverse walk with so many elements of various styles of #architectureanddesign, that I would also like to share this with @aplusd in the excellent #Architecture+design community, and if you too have an interest in architecture+design, #interiordesign, #urbandesign, #environmentaldesign and love taking photos and describing the design styles, then please make sure that you check out the fantastic community here created/hive-178708
The historic HOTEL CARRINGTON
The Phillipstown Hotel (later renamed the Carrington) was established in 1855–56 at 158 Union
Street, reflecting the early name of this part of Brunswick.
The Carrington Hotel, 158-161 Union Street, Brunswick, built in 1928 (HO181), is a
fine example of the Interwar Classical style with symmetrical composition and a
central projecting balcony (now glazed).
Its corner location is a landmark in the predominantly residential street.
While the Union continues to operate, the Carrington has closed and now houses apartments.
https://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/globalassets/areas/strategic-planning/moreland-thematic-history.pdf
Both it and the nearby Union Hotel, (photos below) built in 1859 at 109 Union Street, were essentially brickworkers’ pubs serving a local community.
A street side garden featuring flowers, fabulous flowers
UNION HOTEL
When many metropolitan hotels were directed to upgrade their premises or risk losing their licence, The poorer hotels including the Union (Union Street), True Briton (Ewing Street), Phoenix (133 Sydney Road), Caledonia (211 Weston Street), and Butchers Arms (Union Street; rebuilt in 1927 and genteely named the Carrington) became the target of campaigns waged against alcohol by temperance groups and were singled out during the 1920s sittings of the licensing court.447
The Union Hotel, 109 Union Street, Brunswick (HO139), appears to be an Interwar
remodelling of an earlier hotel as it still retains some of its Victorian architectural
detailing and chimneys.
It has however been simplified at the parapet level to resemble a more modern building. It retains its hotel use.
https://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/globalassets/areas/strategic-planning/moreland-thematic-history.pdf
Another street side garden featuring flowers, fabulous flowers
The corner store selling TARAX soft drinks (pop/soda)
The former shop and residence, constructed in 1888 for David Smith, at 80 Union Street, Brunswick is significant as This is a double and single storey late Victorian former corner shop and residence of typical parapetted form, built on a bluestone base to both street boundaries with a splayed corner.
The polychromatic brick walls at both levels are divided in two by a rendered string course that frames the tops of the windows and doors in the manner of an extended label mould.
Below the string course are dark bricks, with pressed reds above, whilst cream bricks are used in banding below the string course and as contrasts around the openings.
The simple unpainted render parapet is panelled and sits above a cornice terminated by consoles at the wall ends and with a string course below. Windows to the first floor and at the north end of the ground floor are double hung timber sash with compressed arch heads while the corner entrance to the former shop and the shop windows have arched heads.
The shop window facing Union Street is quite large and extends almost to the ground, while
the window facing Barrow Street is a more regular size and has a bluestone sill.
There are glazed tilesto dado height around the larger window and on either side of the corner entry.
There is some early painted signage including a partially exposed sign for 'The Age' (c.1940s or earlier) at the first floor, a 'Tarax' (c.1950s/60s) soft drink ad beside the front door, and on the tiled dado on either side of the corner entry.
Tarax was the brand-name of an independent Melbourne soft drink bottler and a market innovator including sponsorship of the Tarax Happy Show and the development of new packaging, such as the steel can.
George Pethard (Snr), an English-born storeman established a soft drink factory in Numurkah producing the brand name of Taraxale. George (junior) entered his father's soft drink business in 1898 and moved with the firm to Bendigo in 1909. In June 1958 he became chairman of Tarax Drinks Holdings Ltd.
Tarax Soft DrinksTarax listed as a public company in 1959, as the Taraxale Brewing Company, and in 1961 bought out the Consolidated Beverage Company, followed by Ecks Holdings in 1962. In 1972, Taraxale Brewing Company was taken over by Cadbury-Schweppes.
https://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/tarax-soft-drinks
Another street side garden featuring flowers, fabulous flowers
A wide variety of historic Architecture and design
A street side garden featuring flowers, fabulous flowers
A street side garden featuring flowers, fabulous flowers
A street side garden featuring flowers, fabulous flowers
My friends luscious Lemon Tree
A wet, cold and deserted Jewell Station
And on the train to Flinders ST, going home
And as always with a #WednesdayWalk, you may walk on that day, but the day stays with you forever.
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