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...
By Christopher Cody
During the 1950s and into the 1960s St Kilda became more and more impoverished and its infrastructure increasingly 'run-down'....
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 2006 the City of Port Phillip instituted a street art project at the Junction not without some local criticism.1 The motivation for the project may have derived from a range of factors such as;...
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 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. The Junction played a pivotal roll in the settlement and development of the St Kilda village and the transformation of the environment from a natural to an urban landscape.
