| Also known as | Bay View Terrace | Source: from the 1874 death notice of owner J Falvy |
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| Previous Address | 2 Roden Street prior to Council street renumbering | |
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Timelapse Building Images
http://maps.melbourne.vic.gov.au/
1950s
20, 18 and 14 Roden Street West Melbourne.
“There is an airy elegance about this design with the calm of the row of pedimented windows broken by the smooth ellips of the carriageway arch and the sweep of the light veranda roofs.”
source: Early Melbourne Architecture 1840-1888 by Geoffrey Cumberlege 1954.
image source: Early Melbourne Architecture 1840-1888 by Geoffrey Cumberlege 1954.
Land Details
- 1895 MMBW map
- Compiled Crown Record Plan map showing first Crown land purchaser was Mr. J. Falvy
Building Details
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Subsequent Building Alterations
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Architectural Features
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Heritage Significance and Listings
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Owners
| From | To | Owner | More Info | Data Source |
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| to date | Private | source: Hatcher Index | ||
| John Falvy, first Crown land owner | source: Hatcher Index | |||
| abt 40 thousand years earlier | 1835 | Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) peoples of the Kulin Nation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Victoria | source: Hatcher Index |
Residents
| From | To | Resident | More Info | Data Source |
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| 1965 | to date | Private | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1955 | 1960 | Andrew Smith | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1930 | 1950 | Mrs. Catherine F. Smith | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1925 | 1925 | Andrew J. Smith | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1915 | 1915 | Mrs. Marion Weir | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1910 | 1910 | Mrs. I Cochran | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1905 | 1905 | William Wilson | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1900 | 1900 | Joseph Woolf | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1895 | 1895 | John Square | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1890 | 1890 | Mrs. Sarah Ward | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1885 | 1885 | Mrs. C Bremner | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1879 | 1880 | Richard A Paul | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 188 | 1878 | Thomas Harvey | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1877 | 1877 | Miss M. Leary | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1876 | 1876 | Mrs. Sowersby | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1874 | 1875 | Robert Mathieson | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1873 | 1873 | W. Cross | source: Sands & McDougall directory, pg 337 | |
| 1872 | 1872 | Michael Scully | source: Sands & McDougall directory, pg 315 | |
| 1870 | 1871 | Harry and Jessie Grover, nee McGuire | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138065231 | source: The Australasian, 11/6/1870 and Sands & McDougall directory page 341 |
| 1869 | 1870 | Alexander Tough | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 | |
| 1864 | 1867 | Mark Smith | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020 |
Social History
18 Bayview Terrace, Roden Street, West Melbourne was once the home of Harry and Jessie Grover in 1870 where their son Montague was born.
Montague MacGregor (Monty) Grover (1870-1943), journalist, was born on 31 May 1870 at West Melbourne, son of Harry Ehret Grover, old Etonian and former gold escort officer, from Hertfordshire, England, and his wife Jessie, née McGuire, of Melbourne, for many years a contributor to Melbourne Punch and the Bulletin‘s ‘Red Page’. Monty was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School (1881) and Queen’s College, St Kilda, and attended art school for two years. In 1888-92 he was articled to a firm of architects.
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/grover-montague-macgregor-monty-6500
Montague Grover was the foundation editor of The Sun News-Pictorial, Australia’s first pictorial newspaper, which enjoyed immediate success in 1922 and became the nation’s top-selling daily. Grover, more than any other individual, brought popular tabloid journalism to Australia after being impressed by the Northcliffian revolution in London in the 1890s when advertisements were thrown off the front page in favour of bold headlines, big pictures and crisply-written stories. Grover was also a playwright, biographer, mentor and a teetotalling raconteur who mentored some of Australia’s finest newspaper people. For many years, the Herald and Weekly Times named its annual cadet journalist prize after him.
https://halloffame.melbournepressclub.com/article/montague—monty—grover
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