Domestic Gothic house in Victoria Street

Domestic gothic architecture in Victoria St, Moonee Ponds.  The details of this house are very appealing - including the mouldings below the front window:

A lion's head in the centre, accompanied by gryphens let loose in a grape vine.

Farmers' Market

Only 8.30 am, but the customers are starting to arrive in Lincoln Park for the Farmers Market.  Every second Saturday of the month.

Dog-walkers are always about for the bargains.  Actually, there are no bargains, but it is delicious food.

Homes and Hedges

There's probably a home behind this hedge.  Once upon a time hedges were quite a popular feature of Essendon gardens, but only a few remain to remind us of this particular garden pleasure.  The postie must have an interesting time getting past this house. 

Australiana - early kookas

A charming haven for wildlife in the suburbs - kookaburras!

Cute Australiana in Essendon.

Art Deco gem in Moonee Ponds

Is it because the Art Deco architects were not locked in to symmetry that they were able to use interesting solutions for awkward shaped and corner blocks?  This pair of houses occupies a triangular block on a bend in Trinafour Street, Moonee Ponds.  The contrast of the decorative brickwork with the stark white render, along with the interesting shapes of the walls, makes these two very engaging houses.

The decorative motif around the windows is quite striking.

The small windows on either side of the chimney with a fan-shaped leadlight design are really gorgous.

Pyramid-shaped roofs was a feature of the "Moderne" style of architecture.

Unit One film crew in Essendon

A Unit One film crew is ensconced in the Raleigh Street car park at Windy Hill. What are they filming, we wonder?

Let's do some more Art Deco

This Art Deco two-storey building on the corner of Fletcher and Nicholson Streets, Essendon, makes a triumph out of a narrow frontage to Fletcher Street with a bold frontage to Nicholson Street.