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Garryowen park restored

brian — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:02:53 +0000

Garryowen park received its new playground equipment earlier this year and is now looking like a lovely place to spend a lazy afternoon reading, playing or daydreaming.

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a new community garden for Fitzroy?

brian — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:11:04 +0000

A year ago I wrote a post about the vacant land on the corner of George and Charles streets. Now the City of Yarra has announced that the site may become a new community garden. As the land is apparently owned by the Department of Human Services, permission from the government will be required. I think it’s a great idea. What do you think?

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why did you take my slide away?

brian — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:07:07 +0000

Garry Owen park on Leicester St used to have a slide for kids to play on. When walking past recently I noticed that the play equipment had been removed, leaving nothing but a smoothly landscaped pit of woodchips. I wrote this post last week and scheduled it for today thinking I had a unique story. Well, I did at the time but I should have published it then as the Leader published a story on 31 August about the removal of playground equipment across the City of Yarra.…

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Fitzroy history – the only official playground

brian — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:04:44 +0000

This photo shows what I think is Condell Park c1935, but I am not really sure. It does not use the name but the description accompanying it states: “The only official play-ground, situated right opposite the Town Hall, bounded on the North by ramshackle cottages.” The slope of the ground suggests a point of view from the south side of Condell St near the corner of Napier St.

Courtesy of F. Oswald Barnett Collection, State Library of Victoria / ID: mp010427 / photographer: Frederick Barnett / copyright: Oswald Barnett Collection, State Library of Victoria / used under the fair dealings provisions of the Copyright Act 1968 / c1935

Now Condell park looks like this, but I am not sure how old the church spire is in the background, as it is not evident in the photo above.…

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does this count as a park?

brian — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:23:10 +0000

I’ve been documenting the tiny parks and public open spaces in Fitzroy. This is perhaps the smallest of them all. It’s merely a narrow strip of Greeves St on the corner of Young St. Does it even count as a park? If not, what do you call it?

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tiny park on King William St

brian — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:13:33 +0000

Another of Fitzroy’s tiny and unnamed parks is on King William St. Maybe Yarra Council should have a competition or something to select names for these parks?

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King park on Bell St

brian — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:22:32 +0000

Fitzroy has some strange little parks. When I first saw it I thought King park was the front garden of the terrace houses behind it, but it is a public park. I’d feel like I was intruding if I went and sat in there!

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park or vacant lot on the corner of George and Charles streets

brian — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:09:33 +0000

Another of Fitzroy’s rather forlorn patches of open space is on the corner of George and Charles streets. Someone feeds the birds but I hardly ever see any people using the space. Like other small parks it has no name. Is it even a park, or is it open vacant land?

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Garry Owen park on Leicester St

brian — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:18:21 +0000

This is a strange little park on Leicester St near Nicholson St. It always seems deserted when I go past – it feels a bit sad and even creepy. It is not so much unwanted as unloved. Although the grass is dead and the bare earth is dusty and dry the trees are lovely and green.

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City of Yarra elections – saving Condell park

brian — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:20:50 +0000

One of the great victories of people over government in 2008 was the successful campaign to save Condell park. Socialist Party councillor Steve Jolly led the campaign, which is typical of his pragmatic approach to local government policy. None of the other councillors made much of a fuss about the park. The Labor party clones on council did nothing to contradict the state Labor local MP Dick Wynne, whose office was spreading misinformation about the future of the park.…

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Whitlam Park street art project

brian — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:05:10 +0000

Fitzroy is bursting with community projects that incorporate art. I recently reported on the works exhibited in Safeway on Smith St produced by young people working through the Napier Studios. On the side wall of the Down Syndrome Victoria building in Whitlam Park on the corner of Napier and Moor streets is another Napier Studios project that deserves to be acknowledged. Local artists including Reka mentored the contributors and participated in creating the mural.

It was completed earlier this year but I had not looked at it up close to see the plaque until recently.…

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