An unofficial urban history and resource archive related to
St Kilda Junction, Melbourne,
Australia
By Christopher Cody
From the beginning, St Kilda Junction was a gateway to St Kilda and the surrounding area. Its early life from the 1840s was a time of steady but dramatic change....
By Christopher Cody
St Kilda Junction by the 1900s had long been transformed into an urban environment. The smell of eucalyptus after rain, the sounds of squawking flocks of water...
By Christopher Cody
A cursory survey of newspaper articles suggests that the Junction was a dangerous place with many accidents and fatalities reported.1 Traffic management issues...
By Christopher Cody
During the 1950s and into the 1960s St Kilda became more and more impoverished and its infrastructure increasingly 'run-down'. In the 1960s demand for inner city...
By Christopher Cody
When I first came to live in Melbourne in the mid 1980s, St Kilda Junction was one of the first places I used to orientate myself around the city. At this time on the corner of St Kilda Road and...
By Christopher Cody
In 1929 a 'crows-nest' control box (Signal Box) was installed at the Junction on the corner of Wellington Street to manage the trams running through the Junction.1 This little control box was a...
By Christopher Cody
Mrs Nellie Collins (pictured right) was a 66 year old widow who lived in Vine Street St Kilda during the time of the late 1960s-70s redevelopment of St Kilda Junction. Mrs Collins Vine Street home...
By Christopher Cody 
The following is list of web links to additional resources and reading related to St Kilda Junction.
These links are not endorsed they are provided here only as an additional source of information.
By Christopher Cody This website and its contributors acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung of the Kulin Nation the traditional owners of the land on which St Kilda Junction is located stands and offers respects to the elders past and present. This website and its contributors recognise and respect the cultural heritage of this land.
This site is an unofficial urban history and resource archive related to St Kilda Junction, Melbourne, Australia.
It has no affiliations and is strictly not-for-profit.
By Christopher Cody When I first came to live in Melbourne in the mid 1980s, St Kilda Junction was one of the first places I used to orientate myself around the city. At this time on the corner of St Kilda Road and Wellington Streets the Junction was dominated by a large 3D glass of Coca Cola, which was later, replaced by a similar size glass of Swan Beer. A reoccurring and current theme of St Kilda Junction was its role as host for advertising billboards and paraphernalia.1
