This photo of part of the Flickr Friday Photos 2012 group under the theme "Green".
Like the previous reserve, Raines, Rain's or Raines Reserve, this nearby Reserve has also suffered from spelling aberrations. It appears these days in Melways and Google as "Mayors" Park. But in the 1897 MMBW map it appears as Mayor's and for some reason I had always thought as it was celebrating Mayors of Collingwood that it would be Mayors' but maybe it was meant to celebrate the Mayor of the day only. The Park appears in the 1869 de Gruchy map as Mayor's Park and appears always to have been allocated as a reserve.
12 March 2012
Mayors' Park in late afternoon 52/10/2
Raines Reserve 52/10/1
This photo is part of the Flickr Friday photos 2012 group under the theme "green".
Raines Reserve is the current name of a small reserve in Clifton Hill at the junction of Heidelberg Road and Queens Parade and leading to the former United Kingdom Hotel. It was called after Cr William Rain who was Mayor of Collingwood in 1904/5 and more properly should be called Rain's Reserve but as time has passed the spelling has changed. Rain was a long term member of Collingwood Council and Chairman of the Council Public Works Committee as well as a Commissioner of the MMBW. An architect by profession he was born in Geelong but lived in Collingwood for most of his life. In parallel to his time on Collingwood Council he was also for a time a Councillor and Shire President for Dandenong.
Rain's Reserve is not shown in Kearney, de Gruchy, or the MMBW maps featuring Collingwood but is on the 1921 map (go to Maps Online section of Collingwood Historical Society website). The Sands and McDougall directories need more research but because of the nature of the site that part of Collingwood is not always easy to find so we are not really sure when this Reserve came into being and when it was named.
The Collingwood Historical Society has one historical photo of the reserve. This photo represented below is probably dated between 1912 and 1917 because of the businesses shown. You can see that the layout of the Reserve has changed in recent times with the central pathway now going right through to the apex.
The holm oak or Quercus Ilex shown in the photograph at the top of the post is one of the few trees in the former City of Collingwood that is included in the National Trust Tree Register as being of Regional Significance. In another quirk of spelling the National Trust Register spells the name of the reserve as "Raine's" and places the Reserve on the intersection of Queens Parade and Alexandra Parade. The Reserve is otherwise not named on Google maps.
If you have any further information about Raines Reserve or William Rain we would love to hear from you.
03 March 2012
Opposites: hotel reused as fast food outlet 52/9/1
Opposites: hotel reused as fast food outlet 52/9/1, a photo by Collingwood Historical Society on Flickr.
This photo is part of the Flickr Friday photos 2012 challenge under the theme "Opposites". The obvious opposite was the reuse of a building, the former United Kingdom Hotel Clifton Hill, as an outlet of McDonalds. But there are a few opposites here: hotel/McDonalds, alcohol/no alcohol, park/McDonalds. Maybe you can think of more?
The former United Kingdom Hotel at the intersection of Queens Parade and Heidelberg Road Clifton Hill operated from 1878 until it was delicensed in 1988 and became an outlet of McDonalds. You can see the Victorian hotel in this photo from 1887 and in this 1905 image. This building is also the one that you can see in the 1904 MMBW map of the area. In this map a section of which is shown below you can see the layout of the building, the verandahs and yard and the WCs for the patrons. You can also see a horse trough to the left. A Bills horse trough still stands on the site though it is probably not the same one as the current one is located further to the south and Bills horse troughs were constructed later than 1904. There are photos of it here.
The hotel was near the terminus of the cable tram and no doubt shared some of the resulting trade with the Terminus Hotel on the Fitzroy side. The current building in the Moderne style dates to 1937/38 with Queens Parade additions in 1957/58. There is more information about the hotel in the Hotels section of the Collingwood Historical Society website.
18 February 2012
Through Hodgkinson's eyes in 1858 52/8/1
This photograph is part of the Friday Photos 2012 group under the theme of "Eyes".
This map of Collingwood was drawn in 1858 from surveys undertaken by Clement Hodgkinson after whom Hodgkinson Street Clifton Hill is named. Can you recognize what he saw? On the right (eastern) boundary of the map is the Yarra River. Towards the top you can see the confluence with Merri Creek which is very different from what you see today. That confluence was moved during the construction of the Eastern Freeway in the 1970s. But you can see Dight's mill near the confluence and remnants of that are still to be found today near Dight's Falls.
The road on the western (left) boundary of the map is Hoddle Street and the wooded area between Hoddle Street and the Yarra is bounded on the south by Johnston Street. That wooded area now includes the railway line and Victoria Park Station, Victoria Park, and many houses and other buildings. Today Trenerry Crescent runs north to the east of this map from Johnston Street around past Dight's Falls and under the freeway to Clifton Hill.
This is only a small section of the Hodgkinson map. If you would like to see more of it and compare other parts of Collingwood he saw in 1858 get on over to the Collingwood Historical Society website Maps Online section. You will find this map and a range of other maps of Collingwood.
Looking at Collingwood through the eyes of someone living in 1858 certainly provides a different perspective to that of today.
12 February 2012
Collingwood Library 52/7/3
This photograph is part of the Friday Photos 2012 group under the theme of "Reading".
Collingwood Library became part of the Carringbush Regional Library in 1976 and moved to this building in Stanton Street Abbotsford in 1978. The new library was opened in July 1978 by Gough Whitlam. The building was formerly a Church of Christ Tabernacle which opened on May 1889. The building was sold to Collingwood Council in 1976 and was converted into a library with a new entrance to the east and a free-standing mezzanine area. The former Sunday School room became a community meeting room.
© Anne Holmes
Former Collingwood Library 52/7/2
This photo is submitted as part of the Flickr Friday Photos 2012 group under the theme of "Reading".
Collingwood Library was located in the northern portion of the Collingwood Town Hall once it was opened in 1887 and municipal functions moved here. Initially there was a subscribers' reading room and lecture hall on the ground floor and ladies' and men's reading rooms on the upper floor.
Collingwood Library became part of Carringbush Regional Library (Collingwood and Richmond Councils) in 1976 and moved around the corner to Stanton Street in July 1978. At the time of becoming part of the region, Collingwood Library consisted of a staff area at the front of the ground floor, a storage area under the stairs, and another one to the south of the adult library as well as the adult library. Upstairs were the children's library and associated workroom. The men's reading room had by that time become the Upper Supper Room.
Read all about it! 52/7/1
Read all about it! 52/7/1, a photo by Collingwood Historical Society on Flickr. This photo has been entered in the Flickr Friday Photo Challenge on the theme of "Reading".
These are some of Collingwood Historical Society's publications about the history of the area. If you want more details check out the website here: www.collingwoodhs.org.au/index.php?p=1_7_Publications
04 February 2012
VicPark: where the Magpies flew 52/4/1
This photo has been included in the Friday Photos 2012 challenge for the weekly theme of "Birds".
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