An old home makes way for modern flats - The Grove, May 1961

Coburg Courier, 16 May 1961. 

The caption reads:

This graceful old home on the corner of The Grove and Barrow Sts., Coburg will soon make way for a block of modern flats. A number of applications to build flats have been received by the Coburg Council within recent months.

I've checked Google Maps and this is what I found - it's 46 The Grove.

So, what price modernity?!

Shamrock Street, Brunswick West

Barry York, who spent his childhood and youth in Brunswick, wonders whether anyone can help him with the following:

Factory next to 83a Shamrock Street, West Brunswick, possibly early 1980s. Photo courtesy Barry York.

The factory was sold at Christmas 1983 or 1985. Photo courtesy Barry York.

Anyone remember, or know anything about, this engineering factory in Shamrock Street, West Brunswick. It was sold in 1983 or maybe 1985, was demolished, and replaced with townhouses.

Cooper Street ran into the back of the factory. 

 It was number 83. My parents resided next to it - 83a Shamrock Street - for many years.

I'm fairly sure it was a working factory from the 1950s, maybe earlier, to the early 1980s.

You can read more about Barry's memories of living in Brunswick on his Facebook page.