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 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 birds flying over head and the sight a mobs of kangaroos moving through the open woodlands and grass lands of the early 1840s was replaced by a network of road and structures ever increasing in size and complexity, the sound of rattling of cable trams and other traffic and the air was soon to be dominated by the smell of gasoline.
