Comments on: The car park that ate Footscray https://wongm.com/2018/10/victoria-university-footscray-car-park-holdouts/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Sun, 23 Jan 2022 22:07:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2018/10/victoria-university-footscray-car-park-holdouts/#comment-812544 Sun, 23 Jan 2022 22:07:19 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=7512#comment-812544 In reply to Marcus Wong.

The story of Mary Ann Campigli appeared on the ABC News website in 2021.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-11/melbourne-history-mary-ann-campigli-camberwell-supreme-court/100127562

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By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2018/10/victoria-university-footscray-car-park-holdouts/#comment-575282 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 05:17:13 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=7512#comment-575282 Found another Melbourne example – a little old lady’s house surrounded by a shopping centre car park in Camberwell.

https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/b389y5/little_old_lady_vs_camberwell_car_park_1980s/

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By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2018/10/victoria-university-footscray-car-park-holdouts/#comment-483461 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 02:59:42 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=7512#comment-483461 In reply to Andrew S.

It’s a pity that both Monash and La Trobe University were built close to railways, but not adjacent – car-based planning ruled supreme from the 1950s!

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By: Andrew S https://wongm.com/2018/10/victoria-university-footscray-car-park-holdouts/#comment-481053 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 15:07:47 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=7512#comment-481053 In reply to Tom the first and best.

Correct – one of several options considered for Melbourne’s second university. Another was Huntingdale Golf Club which also had the benefit of being near the railway. In the end all rejected with a larger site granted on the former Talbot Colony for Epileptics in 1959 with patients transferred to new facilities at Kew.

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By: Tom the first and best https://wongm.com/2018/10/victoria-university-footscray-car-park-holdouts/#comment-481038 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:32:11 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=7512#comment-481038 In reply to Marcus Wong.

Apparently, before the site for the Clayton campus was settled on, there was a proposal to put Monash where Caulfield Racecourse is, which would have gone well with Monash later taking over what is now its Caulfield campus.

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By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2018/10/victoria-university-footscray-car-park-holdouts/#comment-480978 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 05:30:02 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=7512#comment-480978 In reply to Andrew S.

Thanks for the extra info – compare this the Monash Caulfield campus, which has sprawled over the suburb until it surrounded a house:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140218235741/http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/a-lonely-edwardian-faces-final-reckoning-20130502-2ivzm.html

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By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2018/10/victoria-university-footscray-car-park-holdouts/#comment-480976 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 05:12:58 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=7512#comment-480976 In reply to Marcus Wong.

I knew I’d read an article about said house – here it is:

https://www.theage.com.au/national/family-home-scratched-from-race-for-progress-20040913-gdymfx.html

Found the link via Daniel Bowen:

https://www.danielbowen.com/2014/01/31/for-sale-idyllic-home/

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By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2018/10/victoria-university-footscray-car-park-holdouts/#comment-480973 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 05:08:52 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=7512#comment-480973 In reply to Tom the first and best.

I recall there was a single house left on Normanby Road – it was demolished by 2015:

https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/@-37.8754261,145.0392735,3a,75y,224.68h,91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_dE3gsAX2t50pVm6ux_nfA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x6ad6698d52e0591f:0x4da226c523bbd1e6!8m2!3d-37.875544!4d145.039117

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By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2018/10/victoria-university-footscray-car-park-holdouts/#comment-480970 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 05:00:22 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=7512#comment-480970 In reply to Andy.

And I’m guessing the cheap beer at the bowls club is a nice bonus!

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By: Andrew S https://wongm.com/2018/10/victoria-university-footscray-car-park-holdouts/#comment-480724 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 00:27:55 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=7512#comment-480724 Monash University at Clayton had the luxury of being able to acquire one large property and having it lie dormant for years before eventually developing it. In this case it was the former Metro Twin Drive In Theatre on the corner of Wellington and Blackburn Roads which operated as a Village twin drive in in later years before closing in 1984.
http://www.drive-insdownunder.com.au/australian/vic_clayton.htm

From the next 30 years it was used as free student parking as opposed to the on site parking that required a permit with the floor slab of the snack bar (demolished in the 1990s), open drains and a few light poles as reminders of its former use until the Australian Synchrotron was built on site opening in 2007.

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