Monday, April 16, 2018

Reserve bounded by Gellibrand Crescent, Allenby Avenue and High Street Reservoir, Victoria

This is probably the last remaining 'intact' internal reserve from the swathe of IRs created by Saxil Tuxen in the Merrilands Estate launched 1919 - so forget a thousand years of solitude, this space is about to celebrate 100 years of emptiness.* View it here

Laneway from Gellibrand Ave:
 
New homes on Gellibrand use the access way for garages:

 


 From the reserve looking north to Gellibrand Ave:

* Flippancy is always fun but of course we have no idea how the reserve might have been used over the 20th century, only that it hasn't had much use (except for rear access to properties) in the 21st. History tells us that IRs generally have an ebb and flow as far as use is concerned.

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