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Peter Andrew Barrett
Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Phone: +61 3 9639 2646
Address: Level 31, 120 Collins Street 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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24.01.2022 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
23.01.2022 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.
23.01.2022 Gatehouse and gates Rupertswood, Sunbury The gatehouse and entrance gates to Rupertswood, Sunbury, were built in 1875 around the same time as the grand mansion. They were all designed by the architect George Brown, and the house and its expansive grounds were built for the pastoralist, William John Clarke. The gatehouse, built of bluestone and relieved in sandstone detailing, is now a cafe and the greater site, including the mansion Rupertswood, is now Salesian College. ... Photograph: Peter Andrew Barrett Collection
22.01.2022 Bank of Victoria 251 Collins Street, Melbourne One of a series of banking houses built in Collins Street in the decades immediately after the gold rush. Situated on the south side of Collins Street, between Elizabeth and Swanston Streets, it had an ornate facade, with rustication of its stone on its lower level that gave the building a solid and heavy looking base. ... At the time this photograph was taken, in the mid-twentieth century, it was the Melbourne office of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney (CBC Bank), which amalgamated with the Bank of Victoria in 1927. Sadly, this beautiful building was demolished around 1970, when the CBC Bank rebuilt its Melbourne office. It was a sad loss to the architecture of Collins Street. Photographer: J T Collins Source: State Library of Victoria Picture Collection
22.01.2022 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
22.01.2022 Collins Street c1960 One could be mistaken for thinking Melbourne was in lockdown when this photograph of Collins Street was taken c1960. Instead, the street was likely to have been photographed on one of Melbourne's notorious Sundays, or a public holiday, days when just about everything in the city closed. ... The photographer looks east from the intersection of King Street. Robbs Building is the large arched building at right. It was demolished, with other buildings up to about mid-block, around 1980. Only the gentle incline of Collins Street, as it extends east of King Street, visible in this image, is recognisable in this portion of the street today. Source of Photograph: State Library of Victoria Picture Collection
22.01.2022 Camberwell Junction 1975 No traffic lights, but plenty of near misses.... Source: Gezza1967
22.01.2022 Simpson's Glove Factory 488-496 Victoria Street, Richmond Exterior and interior views of the factory and showrooms of Simpson's Gloves Pty Ltd in Victoria Street Richmond (west of Burnley Street), circa 1930. Simpson's Gloves was formed in 1924 by Amos Griffiths Simpson and Henry Atkins. In addition to leather gloves, it manufactured leather coats, handbags, caps, purses and wallets. The company first operated in Smith Street, and subsequently Alexandra Parade, Collingwood, r...elocating to this site in Victoria Street in 1928. The company operated from this building until 1988, and the building still exists today. Source: Museum of Victoria Photographic Collection
20.01.2022 Collins Street 1930s This photograph of a wet and grey Collins Street is taken from an entrance of the AMP Building (corner Market and Collins Streets). The photographer looks east towards the intersection of Collins and Queen Streets. At that intersection can be seen, what was at that time, the Bank of Australasia. Originally built with two levels, additional levels had been added a couple of years earlier in a seamless manner of grand Classical proportions. ... The building left of the Bank of Australasia, the London & Lancashire Insurance building, would have additional levels added in the proceeding years. These additions were also done in a tasteful manner that blended old with new. Visible on the opposite corner of Queen Street is the Gothic Bank with its pointed tower. It has one of the grandest banking chambers in the city. It was built for the English Scottish and Australian (E.S.&.A) Bank. Both the Bank of Australasia and the E.S.&A.banks, through various mergers, went on in the post-war period to form the ANZ Banking Group. The Gothic Bank remains a branch of the ANZ today. Photograph: State Library of Victoria Picture Collection
17.01.2022 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
17.01.2022 Bourke Hill Precinct Bourke Street, Melbourne 1972 This photograph looks east from Exhibition Street along Bourke Street, at what is the core of the Bourke Hill Precinct. This precinct extends a short distance to the north and south of this block of Bourke Street. ... Visible at centre, is The Salvation Army Headquarters and City Temple. It was completed in 1891, and was built for the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association). Financial troubles resulted in the YMCA disposing of the building, which was purchased by The Salvation Army in 1895. This building, with its ornate façade, remains an important and active centre for The Salvation Army and the services it provides to the community. The pedestrian scale of the buildings, in the streets and lanes of the Bourke Hill Precinct, make it one of the finest parts of the city to shop, eat, or just stroll. Photographer: K J Halla Source of Photograph: State Library of Victoria
16.01.2022 Prince Alfred Tower Melbourne Town Hall This photograph shows the interior of the clocktower of the Melbourne Town Hall. The Prince Alfred tower was built in 1869, and works reconditioned the clock and its mechanical apparatus seen here in 1933, a few years after a fire occurred within the tower. The fire, believed to have been deliberately lit, was extinguished before it could cause extensive damage. The Prince Alfred tower is one of three prominent clocktowers in a two bloc...k radius, the others on the GPO and Flinders Street Station. Source of Photograph: What's On Melbourne
16.01.2022 Century Building 125-133 Swanston Street, Melbourne The Century Building was completed in 1940. It is one of the two bookends in this block of Swanston Street designed by the architect, Marcus Barlow. The other, the Manchester Unity Building, is to the south at the corner of Collins Street. ... At the time of its opening, the basement of the Century Building contained the 500 seat Century Theatre. It was designed to be column-free, with six large girders supporting the weight of the building above. In later years, it became the Swanston Theatre, and in more recent years the Hi Fi Bar. Topping the Century Building is a tower with a cupola, that is expressed with the same verticality as the facade. The Century Building is a fine example of a skyscraper form applied within the constraints of the 40 metres height limit of that time. Photograph: City of Melbourne Facebook Page
16.01.2022 Francis Ormond Building, RMIT 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne Building No 1, of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the Francis Ormond Building, was built in two stages between 1885 and 1892. The first stage, in Bowen Street, was designed by Terry & Oakden and Nahum Barnet. It is the second stage, designed by Oakden, Addison & Kemp, which saw the completion of the La Trobe Street frontage of the building with its distinct tower. ... The Francis Ormond Building forms a fine streetscape of institutional buildings on the north side of La Trobe Street, between Swanston and Russell Streets. These are of a human scale and pre-mid twentieth century origin, and others in this group include the Foresters' Hall and the former Melbourne Magistrates' Court. Photograph: Peter Andrew Barrett Collection
16.01.2022 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
15.01.2022 Rocke Tompsitt & Company 280 Flinders Street, Melbourne This photograph of a busy street scene is in Flinders Street, a little west of Elizabeth Street. It is taken from an entrance of the old Flinders Street Station, around 1890. The cable tram service opened along Flinders Street to Richmond a few years earlier, and in the background can be seen the premises of the wholesale chemists, Rocke Tompsitt & Co. They purchased this building in 1883. Prior to its purchase, it had b...een occupied by the shipping agents, Fanning Nankivell & Co. The photograph shows the array of businesses that occupied this part of Flinders Street at the time, which, in addition to this wholesale chemist, includes a 'clothier and outfitter', and a supplier of mirrors, glazing, wallpapers and artists' materials. Around 1909, Rocke Tompsitt & Company demolished this building and replaced it with the existing building on this site. At the same time Rocke Tompsitt were rebuilding their warehouse, opposite the Victorian Railways were completing their new Flinders Street Railway Station. These building works contributing further to the hive of activity that defined that part of Flinders Street at that time. A similar sea of human activity still defines this part of Flinders Street today. Source of Photograph: State Library of Victoria Picture Collection
14.01.2022 Nellie Parker's former house of ill repute Victoria Parade, East Melbourne
14.01.2022 Intersection of Collins and Elizabeth Streets, Melbourne c1957 The photographer stands in the entrance porch of the 1890s Equitable Building, capturing a busy street scene at the intersection of Collins and Elizabeth Streets. The Equitable Building, by this time renamed the CML Building, was demolished soon after this photograph was taken around the late 1950s.... The building that forms the backdrop to the intersection is the ES&A Royal Bank Branch. Completed in 1941, it was designed by Stephenson & Turner in a stripped back version of the commercial palazzo style, that was popular with banking houses in the 1920s and 30s. Its top is not visible in the image, which gives the impression the building is much taller than it is. The ES&A merged with the ANZ in 1970, and this building continues to serve as a branch of the bank. Photograph: State Library of Victoria Picture Collection
13.01.2022 Bourke Street at Crossley Street. Sunny days are back. Source of Photograph: What's on Melbourne
13.01.2022 Erich Planinsek - Ghost Signage 2, 230, 230 Brunswick Street, 230 Brunswick Street, Fitz-roy Ghost signage from what appears to be the days when this Victorian shop, at the corner of Brunswick and St David's Streets Fitzroy, was Erich Planinsek, a fur and leather clothing retailer. His television jingle for the 230 Brunswick Street store was stuck in the heads of most Melburnians, who, no doubt, still 'Remember, Remember Erich, Remember Erich Planinsek'. By the 1990s, the sto...re had relocated to Collins Street. This sign, and the store's jingle, a memory of this former Melbourne retailer. Today, 230 Brunswick Street, Fitz-roy is now a furniture and design store. Photograph: Peter Andrew Barrett Collection
12.01.2022 Cary Street, Sunshine 1960s Source: Peter Clements and the History of the Old Lost Western Suburbs of Melbourne Facebook Page.
12.01.2022 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
12.01.2022 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
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
11.01.2022 '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
09.01.2022 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
08.01.2022 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
08.01.2022 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
07.01.2022 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
06.01.2022 Departure Lounge, American Airlines, Terminal 4 LAX c1962
04.01.2022 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
03.01.2022 Wilson Hall University of Melbourne Wilson Hall was designed by the eminent nineteenth century architects, Reed & Barnes, and served as the ceremonial hall of the University of Melbourne. Built between 1879-82, the Gothic-style hall, was funded by a bequest from the pastoralist, Samuel Wilson. Its destruction by fire in January 1952 is considered a significant loss to the architecture of the university. The existing Wilson Hall, completed in 1956, is built upon the original's... site and is of a Modernist design. The 1935 stained glass Leckie Window of the old Wilson Hall, by artist Napier Waller, survived the fire and was salvaged. It is on display at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne. Photographer: J W Lindt Source: National Gallery of Victoria
03.01.2022 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
03.01.2022 Melbourne 1930 This aerial view of Melbourne focuses on the environs of the intersection of Collins and Queen Streets, where building works are either completed or nearing completion. The tallest of these is the addition of a tower on the APA Building, as part of the remodelling of its base, built as Prells Building in the late nineteenth century. These works to the APA Building are designed by the architectural firm, Morsby & Coates.... Diagonally across from the APA Building can be seen works that involve the addition of floors to the the Bank of Australasia. These are designed in a sympathetic manner, and respond well to the Classical composition of its earlier lower levels. These additions are designed by the architectural firm, A & K Henderson. At right, the AMP Building at the corner of Collins and Market Streets is under construction. It is designed by the architectural firm, Bates Smart McCutcheon. It is one of the city's finest commercial buildings of the inter-war period, demonstrated by it receiving the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects 'Street Architecture Medal' of 1932. Towards the top right corner of this photograph can be seen the rear of the Customs House (see earlier post this week). Evidence of the turning basin for ships still remains in the Yarra across from the Customs House, just downstream of Queens Bridge. In contrast to the city side of the Yarra, the south bank at this time is of an industrial character, barely recognisable to the Southbank of today. Photograph: Charles Daniel Pratt Source of Photograph: State Library of Victoria
03.01.2022 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
01.01.2022 MCG 1956 A little like this evening, the MCG is empty in this photograph, which is part of a series of photographs of these hallowed grounds, prepared in the lead up to the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956. Whoever you are barracking for this evening, may your team win. ... Photographer: Lyle Fowler Source: State Library of Victoria Picture Collection
