DIY veggie growing - Brunswick, 1946

Herald, 14 March 1946

Biographical note: Frances Charlotte White was the wife of Robert John White, a plate layer. They married in 1914 and lived in the Kew/Auburn/Glenferrie area for a number of years before moving to West Brunswick where they lived at 67 Whitby Street. In the late 1960s or early 1970s, Frances, then widowed, moved to Lower Templestowe where she died in April 1976 aged 87. (Sources: Victorian BDM indexes and Victorian electoral rolls)

A note on Whitby Street: Whitby Street runs parallel to Victoria Street, near Pearson Street. It is named after Edward Whitby, who lived in Brunswick from the 1840s and built the house known as Whitby House, now #28 in the early 1850s. It has changed over time with alterations and additions, especially in the 1920s and later on it was subdivided into flats. Even so, it is one of Brunswick's earliest surviving houses and a rare example of the Gothic Revival style homes built in the Melbourne in the 1850s. You can read more about Whitby House here.

Whitby House, December 2010. Courtesy Tim McKenna.