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Last video of the year is out! This one is topical so I had a hard deadline to get it published.

Thank you so much to everyone for your support over the past 12 months. Having an audience of interested people gives me the ongoing motivation to keep making videos.

I have some new plans for next year and try some new things, including covering more topics outside Melbourne and some more collaborative projects. As always if you have any ideas or opportunities, please let me know.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for 2026!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys0FwqCPJ18

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New video out today, and no it's not about the Metro Tunnel!

Discover the history of the planned but never-built railway between Dandenong and Frankston https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RiarUeDKmvk

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TIL about Fitzroy Gardens Hospital Sunday, thanks to this handy plaque near the Fairy Garden.

These beautiful gardens have been popular with Melburnians and visitors alike for a long time. Certainly a big improvement on when it was used as a dumping ground and sewer in the 1830s and 40s!

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Hoddle Street is one of the major inner arterial roads in inner Melbourne. It is 10 lanes at its widest point but narrows at its southern and northern ends. This is because it wasn't always like this.

Hoddle Street used to be a fairly standard shopping street like nearby Smith and Brunswick Streets. But it was progressively widened through the 1970s, 80s and 90s by demolishing hundreds of houses and shops, mainly on the west side. This was part of the 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan.

At one of its narrow points at Clifton Hill Railway Station you can see some of the clearest evidence of this history. In the photo below you can see Hoddle Street on the left and a very wide gap between the road and the footpath next to Darling Gardens. This gap is there to accommodate any widening of Hoddle Street that obviously hasn't been done (yet), and zoned Transport Zone 2 accordingly.

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doing an armchair tour of melbourne suburbs, and stumbled across this little property going cheap at around $5.5m.

would a post about this joint constitute advertising? 🤔 — a) i won’t profit one jot from its sale, and b) if my post led directly to a sale, i would probably laugh so hard the tears would roll down my legs

it’s just possible the building might be mildly interesting to somebody out there in tootland

looking at the floorplan and wondering what i might do with this property, i noticed a row of >20 small bedrooms, and it occurred to me the building was, perhaps, once an “institution” of some sort.

the kew historical society tells us that Ivy Grange in malmsbury street kew was first built in 1864; a tower and other wings were added later in stages.

For a number of years in the 1920s Ivy Grange was used as a private mental hospital.
in 1930 it was acquired by the carmelite fathers for use as a novitiate, and it is currently used as a guest house (i think for the past 40 years or so)

https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-vic-kew-144357736

New video out today about the two times that Victoria nearly got a nuclear power station!

This has been one of my personal favourites to make. It involved a lot of original research and I learned a lot.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oQqP7pxZqQk

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This is the heritage-listed Singapore Cottage on Sackville Street in Collingwood.

A rare surviving example of a very early prefabricated building brought over from Singapore in the 1850s.

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Very nicely restored Melbourne City Council Electricity Supply pillars in heritage colours throughout the city. This one is on Queen Street.

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End of an era. After many false starts, the iconic VicRoads offices in Kew finally closed earlier this year, after over 70 years of operation.

Now surrounded by temporary fencing pending rezoning of the land to allow residential and other uses.

https://engage.vic.gov.au/draft-amendment-to-the-boroondara-planning-scheme-c411boro

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