Our local library has made available a guide for 3 historical walks. For a New Year's day adventure we took the one that passes by our home and discovered some architectural history on pour doorstep.
We were interested to learn that the handsome residence "Hatherlie" just around the corner had been built by Mr S Lazarus, famous for his diary on the life on Ballarat Goldfields in the 1850s and also for being the foreman on the Ned Kelly jury:
And that building at the left bottom of the map is of course the North Fitzroy Branch of the London Chartered Bank, "the most notable example of Queen Anne bank architecture in Melbourne".
Before being closed like many suburban bank branches it got by multiple mergers to be owned by the ANZ Bank. You can now only get a haircut there; but a haircut is, in some circles, still a financial term.
