Melbourne Eastern Suburbs Walk
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This substation is an obvious target for graffiti vandals. Interesting, the graffiti doesn't extend far beyond this surface around to the other sides of the building - no viewers I guess. I'm also curious whether the grey/blue undercoat was applied to cover up previous 'art', or perhaps to provide a better surface and contain the tagging to this side only???
Influenced by British housing styles, Victorian (1840 to 1890) homes were adorned with decorative brickwork, timber verandahs and patterned tile floors. Their cast-iron lacework also became more detailed and more ornate thanks to the 1850 gold rush and the establishment of ironworks in Melbourne. As the country revelled in wealth, widespread prosperity spurred a mass building boom. Developers established housing in, what are today, some of the country’s most prominent suburbs. Now, with the capacity to make cast iron, developers and architects no longer needed to import it from Britain.
This bunker-like structure houses the equipment required to convert local electricity supply to the type needed by electric rail. This station is just northeast of the East Camberwell Rail Station.
Auburn Uniting Church complex was built in 1888-91 to the design of Alfred Dunn (born Devon, England, 1865; died Kew, Victoria, 1894) in the American Romanesque style. The complex is unique in that all buildings were built by the same builder, in the same style, designed by the same architect, within a space of only two or three years – a remarkable achievement for a single congregation when Melbourne itself was less than 60 years old. The main building in the complex is, of course, the Church, occupying the corner of Oxley Road and Hepburn Street, its 30m high tower visible for miles around.
Known only to locals, this trail parallels the Belgrave Line and serves as a footpath connection between Camberwell and East Camberwell Stations, about 900 metres.
Now a reserve since 1996; previously a brickworks site then a garbage tip. Fritsch Holzer comes from Augustus Fritsch and the Holzer brothers (Martin and Aloysius Anton Holzer), who formed the Upper Hawthorn Brick Company in 1883.
This is not a lake in the strictest sense. But seldom is there no water sitting in this depression. Only inches deep, the ground seepage makes its way to city culverts through a bluestone lined drainage ditch.