2 Walsh Street, Coburg is demolished - 1978

The Courier, 28 February 1978.

2 Walsh Street while demolition was in progress, The Courier, 28 February 1978. 

This once grand house was the home of Dr Carl Dyring, Coburg's Health Officer in the years leading up to World War One. You can read about him here. 

Dr Carl Dyring's Residence, 2 Walsh Street, Coburg, circa 1890. 

Image courtesy Coburg Historical Society.

Dr Carl Dyring and his wife Dagmar standing at the front door of their Walsh Street home. (Detail from the photo shown above.)

The Dyrings were a very interesting family. Carl's second wife Dagmar was a member of the Bendigo Cohn cordial and beer manufacturing family. She went to Egypt to work as a hospital matron in 1915, leaving her two children with her family in Bendigo. You can read her story here. 

Their daughter, Moya Dyring (1909-1967), was one of the first women cubist painters to exhibit in Melbourne. She married fellow artist Sam Atyeo (born in Coburg), whose parents are buried at Coburg Cemetery with his uncle, Laurence Cohen, monumental mason and trade unionist. 

Carl Dyring was invalided home from the war in December 1916. He sold his practice (run from Walsh Street) to Dr R.A.R. Wallace, who also took over his role as Coburg Health Officer. (Wallace had taken Dyring's place during his absence in 1915.) Dyring then retired to Brighton. 

Dr Wallace called the house 'Kilcorran'. 

Sources: 

Fighting the Kaiser blog.

Brunswick and Coburg Leader, 15 Oct 1915.

The Courier, 28 February 1978.

Coburg Historical Society picture collection (Accessed via Picture Victoria).