The Coles / Woolworths duopoly is bad for consumers and producers throughout Australia. In Fitzroy, we have recently been subjected to this duopoly with minimal competition. I had great hopes for the IGA on Brunswick St when it opened five years ago, but it has proved to be a great disappointment, with its initial diversity and quality of goods rapidly declining and its deli closing, perhaps due to competition from the nearby Coles, which opened about half a year later.…
Archive for the category: Brunswick St
fashion is leaving Brunswick St
First Rich, then Lush, and now Venus and Mars: three prominent fashion shops have closed or are soon to do so. In a recent article about Gertrude St the Leader notes, according to a realtor, that rents are ‘not rising faster in Gertude St than neighbouring Brunswick or Smith streets.’
The number of closures on Gertrude and Brunswick streets suggests that this is the case – that Gertrude and Brunswick streets are becoming equally unviable.…
Fitzroy history – the Evelyn hotel
This 1969 photo of the Evelyn hotel on Brunswick St shows the hotel with its facade intact, before the removal of the render and the significant remodelling of the walls on the ground floor, and the more shabby than chic appearance the walls have today.…
ambivalent
Does this sign make you want to go into this shop, or avoid it? I wonder if they also stock blackface?
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Fitzroy history – Brunswick St between St David and Moor streets
This is a view of the east side of Brunswick St facing north east of the section south of St David St from 50 years ago. The photo shows that, sometime after 1948, the former McColl Electric Works had become a toy wholesaler, and that what is now Blue Chillies was once a shoe shop (or manufacturer).…
7 storeys on Brunswick St
A planning permit has been sought by a developer to redevelop the former Thread Den premises (originally the Cavan hotel) into a 7 storey apartment building. I don’t understand how an application can be made for such a redevelopment of a heritage listed building on a street with a heritage overlay.…
has Endis cafe closed?
Endis cafe on Brunswick has been closed for over a week, but very neatly, as if the owner has simply gone on holiday. Normally, however, when a business is temporarily closed the owner leaves a note in the window to appease customers.…
attention cyclist guy
This is attached to the wall outside the Fitzroy Nursery on Brunswick St near the corner of Leicester St.
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Fitzroy history – from draper and milliner to bar
At the time of the publication of a panoramic drawing of Fitzroy in 1889, the property at 401 Brunswick St was a drapery warehouse. It’s now the bar Polly.
Courtesy the SLV / ID: H4634 / artist: F W Niven / copyright: expired – image is in the public domain / c1889…