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It was a catastrophe that saw real GDP fall 17 per cent over 1892 and 1893 and plunged Carlton into desperate poverty it wouldn’t shake for 70 years. “Big houses got sold, turned into boarding ...
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As a new book on the suburb is published today, Arnold Zable recalls the Carlton of his childhood. In the late 1950s, two housing commission officers, Shaw and Davey, surveyed areas of inner Melbourne. - from the vantage of their cars, so legend has it - and declared large swathes of housing to be slums. Their report, which became known as the ...
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Carlton as a suburb in recent decades. From a slum, it has once again become a highly desirable inner-suburban place to live. Books on Jewish Carlton A number of excellent books have been written about Jewish Carlton, but among the best are those by Julie Meadows. In 2011 she published A Stetl in Ek Velt (A Village at the End of the Earth) that
The economic depression of the 1890’s saw a demographic change in Carlton and the name became synonymous with criminal gangs and slum housing. By the end of 19 th century, it has become a working-class suburb. Among the many small businesses like textile industries sprung up in the area during this period, Carlton Brewery stands out.
The settlement of Carlton flourished between 1860 and 1880. Streets such as Drummond and Rathdowne streets became highly desirable residential locations. Churches, the University, the Royal Exhibition Building and the wide, well-designed streets, a generous allocation of public squares and extensive parkland all added to the suburb's early appeal.
Jun 3, 2022 · First published 3 Jun 2022, 2:05pm. From humble beginnings to one of the city’s hottest postcodes, Carlton is one of Melbourne’s oldest and most well-loved suburbs. Nestled in Melbourne’s inner north, Carlton has a rich and unique identity. Here’s the story of how it came to be — and how the next chapters are being written.
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The situation was very different in the 1850s, when the main north-south streets of Carlton were being laid out. Station Street appears on a plan of Carlton allotments dated 1859, a decade before the suburb of North Carlton was created and nearly three decades before the inner circle railway line was opened. So how did Station Street get its name?
