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 A cursory survey of newspaper articles suggests that the Junction was a dangerous place with many accidents and fatalities reported.1 Traffic management issues continued to be associated with the Junction into the 1950s as road traffic, trams and pedestrians continued to compete for use of the Junction. However, in 1950 the State Government indicated any major reshaping of St Kilda Junction was a long way off, the targeted shops and houses were considered too valuable at the time for demolition and the need to deal with the pressures of housing and urban slums was seen as a higher priority.2
