Seddon Yarraville Kingsville Aerial View 1925 with Label
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We’d all love to travel back in time to when our beloved inner west home was first built. This aerial from 1925 can offer just that. This is a rare and beautiful historic exploration for anyone who is proud to call Seddon home.
If you love to dig into the past like we do, we noticed something unusual about the Metropolitan Board of Works master plan from 1895 of Seddons street orientation (last yellow image). On that plan, the streets intended to run north-south in continuation from the previously sold allotments closer to Somerville Road. Seddon Street east is not aligned with Seddon Street west. In fact, few east-west streets align and some streets are odd dead-ends. This aspect presumably charged to protect the area from the blight associated with heavy through-traffic when these estates were developed.
You’ll notice the tree-lined centre islands of Gamon Street today are missing as this is the busy Footscray to Williamstown Road tram route formed in 1921 (going from Irving, Nicholson, Buckley, Victoria, Charles and Gamon Streets, through Seddon, then down Somerville Road to the corner of Williamstown Road for the Queensville Estate). This tram line was replaced by buses, still following the same route today.
BONUS: You can add your own text to this print for FREE!
Use the text field when adding this product to the cart. Check your spelling carefully. If you add nothing, it comes with Seddon by default.
We’d all love to travel back in time to when our beloved inner west home was first built. This aerial from 1925 can offer just that. This is a rare and beautiful historic exploration for anyone who is proud to call Seddon home.
If you love to dig into the past like we do, we noticed something unusual about the Metropolitan Board of Works master plan from 1895 of Seddons street orientation (last yellow image). On that plan, the streets intended to run north-south in continuation from the previously sold allotments closer to Somerville Road. Seddon Street east is not aligned with Seddon Street west. In fact, few east-west streets align and some streets are odd dead-ends. This aspect presumably charged to protect the area from the blight associated with heavy through-traffic when these estates were developed.
You’ll notice the tree-lined centre islands of Gamon Street today are missing as this is the busy Footscray to Williamstown Road tram route formed in 1921 (going from Irving, Nicholson, Buckley, Victoria, Charles and Gamon Streets, through Seddon, then down Somerville Road to the corner of Williamstown Road for the Queensville Estate). This tram line was replaced by buses, still following the same route today.
BONUS: You can add your own text to this print for FREE!
Use the text field when adding this product to the cart. Check your spelling carefully. If you add nothing, it comes with Seddon by default.
We’d all love to travel back in time to when our beloved inner west home was first built. This aerial from 1925 can offer just that. This is a rare and beautiful historic exploration for anyone who is proud to call Seddon home.
If you love to dig into the past like we do, we noticed something unusual about the Metropolitan Board of Works master plan from 1895 of Seddons street orientation (last yellow image). On that plan, the streets intended to run north-south in continuation from the previously sold allotments closer to Somerville Road. Seddon Street east is not aligned with Seddon Street west. In fact, few east-west streets align and some streets are odd dead-ends. This aspect presumably charged to protect the area from the blight associated with heavy through-traffic when these estates were developed.
You’ll notice the tree-lined centre islands of Gamon Street today are missing as this is the busy Footscray to Williamstown Road tram route formed in 1921 (going from Irving, Nicholson, Buckley, Victoria, Charles and Gamon Streets, through Seddon, then down Somerville Road to the corner of Williamstown Road for the Queensville Estate). This tram line was replaced by buses, still following the same route today.