If you head into the city (Melbourne), and along Burke Street to the RACV Club, you may notice an interesting structure in their courtyard. I was fascinated by it, so did a little research to find out what exactly it was…and I discovered it is a traffic signal, which were used in parts of Melbourne […]
Tucked away at the top of the city, is a lane named after one of our very own celebrities…Divinyl’s singer Chrissy Amphlett. Originally, this lane was called Corporation Lane 1639…in fact, in Melbourne, many minor laneways are given the default name “Corporation Lane” with an identifying number. But after two years of lobbying and a […]
I love looking at historic photos of this wonderful city we live in, so when I heard about this book, I had to hunt down a copy for ourselves. Lost Melbourne by Heather Chapman and Judith Stillman is a history book with a difference…it focuses on what we have lost over time as progress marches […]
While wandering through Armadale, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, to visit Mister Zimi, I happened to look down while waiting to cross the lights at the corner of Kooyong Road and High Street. And I saw this just behind the tram stop sign…it threateningly reads that there is “A curse upon the removal of this […]
One thing we have learned about living in Melbourne is that there is so much to be discovered…the laneway I am featuring today is one we had no idea existed, yet it contains so much of Melbourne’s history! Bank Place runs between Little Collins Street and Collins Street, and features some heritage pre-war buildings dating […]
We have walked past the entrance of this little laneway many times, but never thought to check it out till I discovered the Presgrave Place Street Art feed on Instagram. To find it, you head to Little Collins Street and turn into Howery Place…you will see the street sign just a short way down on […]
Today we made our now annual trip across town to Kensington, to go to the Camp SEDA Open Day. Camp SEDA is the Seeing Eye Dogs Australia breeding and training facility which is open to the public once a year… We have sponsored guide dogs for years now, and for the last couple of years, […]
I have had a rough week due to a stomach bug, but unexpectedly, it has all has ended up really well! Started on Friday when we went back to the school to do another talk about organ donation and my husband’s liver transplant story to another approximately 200 boys. I wrote about our first one […]