Seddon Fig & Walnut Cafe Vintage Suburban Icon Poster

The restored 1921 map of Footscray is a window into the past with a vintage advertising vibe. Covering Footscray, Yarraville, Seddon and West Footscray. Sorry Kingsville, it doesn’t quite cover you because Kingsville was originally part of the Werribee Shire until 1922!

We adore the vintage charm of these maps, especially the captivating old advertisements. The striking red color scheme adds a unique touch to the overall appeal. Plume Benzine, Triumph Motor Cycles, insurance, and Commonwealth Bank ads collectively create a delightfully nostalgic piece that's a joy to explore.

This map is part of a pocket guide series featuring valuable location references to enhance your suburban travel experience in the early 1920s. We have additional maps for various suburbs available in our store.

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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.

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.

The main road dividing the image vertically is Somerville Road, no overpass bridge either back then, and the football field to its right is on Williamstown Road, behind the previous Yarraville West Primary School.

Bottom left is the Queensville Estate (Kingsville) – which is also available to purchase – the Queensville Estate started in the 1880s so is further along than the lower right which includes Severn & Tuppins edging the yet to be established Cruickshank Park.

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This print is in the original 8:10 scale of the glass slide. It enables you to see further down Williamstown Road and more of the Yarra River at the top. The cropped A1 is still available here.