Peter Andrew Barrett in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Local business
Peter Andrew Barrett
Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9639 2646
Address: Level 31, 120 Collins Street 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Website: http://www.pabarrett.com
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25.01.2022 St Peter's Eastern Hill 15 Gisborne Street, East Melbourne St Peter's Eastern Hill was built in several stages from the 1840s. This Anglican church is sited unusually, its front faces southwest away from Gisborne and Albert Streets. It is from its front steps that the letters from Queen Victoria declaring Melbourne its city status were read in 1848. ... This photograph shows the rear of St Peter's, added in the 1870s and which is adjacent to the intersection of Gisborne and Albert Streets. Illuminated at night, this portion of the church, and the adjacent statue, Cross of Sacrifice (1924), give St Peter's a landmark quality in this precinct of ecclesiastical buildings in East Melbourne, which includes St Patrick's Cathedral visible at rear. Photograph: Peter Andrew Barrett Collection
21.01.2022 This 'Castle' was behind Leggett's Ballroom in Greville Street, Prahran. Malvern Historical Society and others are interested in hearing from people who knew the 'Castle'. The photograph is believed to be from the mid 1970s. Source of photograph and story: Malvern Historical Society
20.01.2022 Port Authority Building 29 Market Street, Melbourne This drawing of the Port Authority Building was published in the Construction and Real Estate Journal in 1932. It shows the Flinders Lane elevation of the building. Designed by Smith, Ogg & Serpell, the building was awarded the RVIA street architecture medal, the judges describing it as "solid and massive in treatment, with quiet and restrained detail and happy proportions". The Construction and Real Estate Journal was more ...succinct in its praise, describing the building as having "dignity, character and style". The Port Authority Building, built by the contractor Hansen and Yuncken, is a fine example of an inter-war office building in Melbourne. Source of Image: Construction and Real Estate Journal
20.01.2022 Snapshot Melbourne 1979 Various scenes in Melbourne from the 1979 movie Snapshot, accompanied by a score with music by Lena Lovich, Deborah Harry, Donna Summer and Joe Camilleri.... Enjoy! Credit: Gezza1967
17.01.2022 Victoria Bond & Free Stores 565-571 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne This warehouse complex occupied a large site extending all the way back from Londsdale Street to Little Bourke Street. Known as the Victoria Bond & Free Stores, it was built around 1890. In the years prior to its demolition in the 1980s it was used as a car park. It was refaced around this time with a screen, as many city buildings were, to give it a modern character.... Not all was lost in its demolition, as the brick Little Bourke Street facade of the complex remains. This portion of the site is still used as a car park. The Lonsdale Street frontage was redeveloped with a high-rise office building. As part of those works, a pedestrian laneway was made linking Lonsdale Street with Merritts Place, a lane that runs off Little Bourke Street. Photographs: City of Melbourne Art & Heritage Collection (1950s) State Library of Victoria (1970s) Photographer: J T Collins
17.01.2022 Friedman's Buildings Carlton 1927 Friedman's Buildings were situated on the northeast corner of Swanston and Queensberry Streets, Carlton. It was built in 1911 with three-storeys, and was designed by architect C A Walton. Another floor was added to the building, and it was on this upper level that a fire began in January 1927. The floor was occupied by silk clothing manufacturer, Letwin and Pahoff. By the time the fire brigade had arrived at the scene from nearby Bouverie Str...eet, the top floor was ablaze from end to end. The fire brigade managed to contain the fire to the top floor, but lower levels were damaged by water. This photograph shows the fire brigade in action fighting the fire, watched on by a band of spectators. Source of Photograph: Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade, Facebook Page
11.01.2022 City Watch House 345-355 Russell Street, Melbourne This building, photographed soon after its opening in 1909, served as the city's watch house until 1994. The City Watch House contained cells for people awaiting trial. It is designed in a Romanesque Revival style, and is more restrained in its design than the dour looking Magistrates Court immediately to its south, also designed in a Romanesque Revival style. Both buildings were designed by the architect G B H Austin of the ...Public Works Department. The entrance porch of the City Watch House is expressed with a beautifully detailed semi-circular arch. Many a person awaiting trial walked through this entrance porch over the years; the first, a Beatrice Phillips, charged with indecent language. Unlike Beatrice Phillips, visitors today to the City Watch House, attending an interactive law and order experience, can leave any time they desire. Photographer: Alex Gunn Source: State Library of Victoria Picture Collection
10.01.2022 Collins Street c1950 This photograph looks east along Collins Street, just west of its intersection with Queen Street. High-rise buildings have yet to arrive, they are about another decade away. The street still retains a pedestrian scale, but is somewhat pedestrian-unfriendly in terms of its cars. The towers of the Manchester Unity Building (left) and the T&G Building (right) complement each other, marking the more exclusive middle and eastern portions of the street. Further... east, closing the vista along Collins Street, can be seen the arches of the Treasury Building at Spring Street. Source of Photograph: Melbourne Tramway Museum Collection
09.01.2022 AMP Building Sydney, 1962 This publicity image for Holden, uses the AMP Building at Circular Quay to form a striking backdrop of Modernity. In the foreground, a stylish model poses surrounded by icons of Australian car culture of the 1960s, an EJ Holden 'Special', a parking meter, and the Cahill Expressway visible beyond. These also considered items of modernity at this time.... The AMP Building was termed (in Sydney at least), Australia's first skyscraper. Although earlier high-rise buildings had been completed, such as ICI House in Melbourne (1958), at the time of its completion in 1962 the AMP Building was Australia's tallest, at 26-storeys. Designed by the architectural firm of Peddle Thorp & Walker, the building has two crescent-shaped towers linked by a central core, producing an H-shaped plan. The roof deck of the AMP Building, with views across Sydney Harbour, and beyond, was a popular attraction in the city. Just over two years after the building's opening, one million people had visited the observation deck. As seen in this photograph, the AMP Building with its location at Circular Quay, added with its International-style design, soon made it a landmark element of Sydney. The AMP Building at Circular Quay is one of Australia's most iconic and finest Modernist buildings of the Post-war period. Source of Photograph: Noni Boyd and George Phillips
09.01.2022 Regent Theatre Collins Street, Melbourne 1948 This photograph is of the entrance from Collins Street into the lobby of the Regent Theatre. It escaped the disastrous fire that destroyed the auditorium, fly tower, organ and roof in 1945. This photograph of March 1948, shows the lobby a few months after the theatre re-opened. The reconstruction work to the auditorium was by the architectural firm Cowper, Murphy and Appleford. The original 1929 theatre works were designed by arc...hitect Cedric Ballantyne. This movie theatre closed again in 1970, re-opening as a live theatre venue in 1996. Photographer: Lyle Fowler Source: State Library of Victoria Picture Collection
09.01.2022 'A Lonsdale Street Louvre' Rosenthal Aronson & Co 275 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne The facade of this 1891 building now forms (with others) the Lonsdale Street frontage of the Emporium. Rosenthal Aronson & Co were manufacturers and importers, stocking a wide assortment of goods that ranged from jewellery to glassware and crockery. One newspaper described the warehouse and its beautiful goods as 'A Lonsdale Street Louvre'. ... The handsome facade of Rosenthal Aronson & Co is built of brick and stone, which is relieved in cement render. Another building of the firm was situated at the rear. The complex was designed by the architect, Nahum Barnet, and its contractor was Clement Langford. A feature of the interior of the building, much admired at the time of its completion, was the use of fire sprinklers throughout. These extinguished a fire in the building in 1897, saving it, and the valuable goods it housed, from destruction. Source of Photograph University of Melbourne Archives
07.01.2022 Collins Street c1960 Leafy Collins Street, looking east towards the intersection of Exhibition Street. The building visible at the corner is Lister House, which was demolished around 1970 to build Collins Place.... Source of Photograph City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection and What's On Melbourne Facebook page
07.01.2022 Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy 405 Russell Street, Melbourne Known colloquially to many as "Emily Mac", this school for young women, in instruction in domestic arts and sciences, was established in 1906. It relocated to this new, purpose-built building in Russell Street in 1926, and was officially opened by the Duchess of York the following year. ... This photograph shows students of the college on the recessed balcony on the first floor of the Greek Revival-style portico of the school. The building was designed by E Evan Smith of the Public Works Department of Victoria. It is, with the Shrine of Remembrance, a fine example of the Greek Revival-style used on a public building during the inter-war period. Source of Photograph: Museum of Victoria
07.01.2022 An interesting story on the Monsanto complex at Braybrook from Tony Beyer's 'The History of the Old Western Suburbs of Melbourne' Facebook page. The temple-like portico on the administration block makes it one of the more unusual factory complex designs of the mid-twentieth century in Melbourne. Source: 'The History of the Old Western Suburbs of Melbourne' Facebook Page.
04.01.2022 Melbourne Town Hall 1954 The Melbourne Town Hall was built in several stages from 1867. This photograph shows the town hall illuminated for the Royal Visit of HRH Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. The photographer stands on the southwest corner of Swanston and Collins Streets. The portico that faces Swanston Street, visible at left, is draped in decoration to celebrate the Queen's visit. The portico was added in 1887, and many a famous hand has waved from it, including the Queen, t...he Beetles and Abba. Photographer: Edwin G Adamson Source of Photograph: State Library of Victoria
03.01.2022 Swanston Street, Melbourne c1950 A photograph of Swanston Street, looking north from outside St Paul's Cathedral. In the distance, on the opposite side of the street, can be seen the base of the Nicholas Building. This lively street scene is one that was used in the City of Melbourne submission to hold the 1956 Olympic Games.... Source of Photograph: Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 15162 P1 Unit 3
03.01.2022 St Kilda Junction Works are in progress to wood block the road surface around the tram tracks at St Kilda Junction in 1925. The buildings visible have all been removed. Brighton Road is visible left of centre, and Fitzroy Street is at right where the side of a tram can be seen. Source of Photograph:... Melbourne Tram Museum See more
03.01.2022 Hawthorn Railway Station This inter-war photograph shows the island platform (platforms 2 & 3) at Hawthorn Railway Station. The station opened in 1861, and served initially as a terminus until the line was extended to Camberwell and beyond from the 1880s. The canopy over platforms 2 & 3 was relocated from Flinders Street Station in 1901. Platform 3 served as the platform for a branch line to Kew, the line operated from 1887 and was decommissioned in the 1950s. Source of Phot...ograph: State Library of Victoria Picture Collection See more
