Cairo Fitzroy flats Art Deco - central coutryard lawn and trees 1935 - 1936

The front doors all faced onto the central garden area and small yellow doors were for the deliveries of daily fresh milk.Also home deliveries were made by the butcher and baker and greengrocer and probabley there was a place for the daily mail.These were built just after the Great Depression.

Art Deco Architecture Albert Park, by Frederick Romberg and Mary Shaw 1939 - 1942 South Melbourne

These apartment blocks were built 1930s on Queens Road, Albert park, or South Melbourne, apartments - architects were Frederick Romberg and Mary Shaw 1939 - 1942.

Camberwell Architecture Melbourne Modernist or Art Deco 1930s day tour.

Architecture Melbourne Modernist or Art Deco 1930s day tour. Camberwell Christian Scientits' building. Second Church of Christ, Scientist 41 Cookson Street, Camberwell. Commonly called the Christian Scientists. ARchitects Bates Smart and McCutcheon built 1934-1939. Much of the original furnishings remain and even includes an elevator or lift that is operated by a system of water tanks. This building has 2 floors, the ground floor has a foyer with staircase and on the floor a large rug in the design of the original mosaics. Behind the foyer is a large room for Sunday school classes for children with specially designed "healthy" chairs still in use.

Art Deco - Clifton Hill, and Westgarth Theatre

Former Trumold Tyre Workshop, Clifton Hill built 1938, by Hudson and Wardrop who also built the adjacent United Kingdom Hotel. Visual Pollution- overhead wires!!!! The Westgarth Cinema, on the corner of Barry Street and High Street, Northcote was officially opened on 20 October 1921. The builder was 26 year old John Seccull of Barry Street. During the 1930s the upper two stories were added. There is no proof that it's architect was Walter Burley Griffin. "Architect: M.E.C. Yeomans" see http://www.cinematour.com/tour/au/155.html .

Beleura National Trust House & Garden Mornington

Golden Dragon museum and Chinese Garden Bendigo

The Chinese Gardens based on the Imperial Palace in Beijing, includes a Buddhist Temple, the Guan Yin Miao - Temple of The Goddess of Mercy. Inside the temple is a statue of Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy who holds a fly - whisk a symbol of authority and a pearl a symbol of purity and knowledge. Golden Dragon Museum : the dragon -Sun Loong - is believed to be the world's oldest surviving imperial Chinese dragon in the world. It is over 110 years old and the longest - over 100 metres. Chinese Bedroom - The museum depicts the cultural history of the Chinese in Bendigo since the gold rush in 1850s The Chinese herbalist at work Chinese Laundry

Mildura Wentworth Inglewood Bendigo Eaglehawk

At the river end of Palm Avenue and in front of the Chaffey's House the Murray river bank was close . There was a mostly sunken old paddle wheeler with its name on the bow showing Gem. That fascinated me as a kid c 1946. It has been repaired - massively - and I think it is at Echuca or Swan Hill.

View to the Murray River from end of Palm Ave in front of the Chaffeys house...

6 Palm Ave now Chaffey Ave.Typical house until late 1950s. Palms once lined this street. Chaffey Brothers house on bank of Murray River- museum Country Week Cricket 1938 Uncle Harwood Furze in centre 1938. From a museum house very close to where my gran, Eve Francis Bingham nee Muntz Furze lived in Palm Ave about 2 or 3 houses from the train line, diagonally opposite Chaffey's house - Chaffey Ave Slightly Germanic style - built 1920 interesting details Unusual windows Dismal weather from our Balcony at the Grand Hotel c1891, towards river Murray Chaffeys Beach - now Apex Park -swum there as kids c.1943-1946 Lock opens More photos including the Chinese Museum and Gardens and Temple Bendigo here