Showing posts with label Saxil Tuxen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saxil Tuxen. Show all posts

Friday, February 22, 2013

Duggan Reserve, Coburg Vic.

Saxil Tuxen lodged the design for this small estate featuring one internal reserve on 11 January 1920. 

Images of the reserve in January 2000:



Check here for Google maps. There are pictures of the reserve in 2014 here.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Victoria Cross Reserve South, Macleod, Vic

In fact, this reserve is not signposted but the name seems logical. This space is essentially a playground space with, as our informant Nici points out, some random fruit trees. There is also a pathway running right through the space.  









Monday, February 18, 2013

Victoria Cross Reserve North, Macleod, Vic

There are two internal reserves in the Victoria Cross Estate which we estimate at being constructed around 1920 almost certainly to the design of Saxil Tuxen, Melbourne's foremost town planning surveyor/advocate of the 1920s-30s. As is clear from the google map linked above, the northern reserve has been reworked somewhat at one end, where what appears to be housing for the elderly has been built on the site of what our informant Nici tells us was once a (plant) nursery. As is clear from these photographs, the reserve is largely 'empty' (of structures, seating or play equipment) but does feature some pleasant stands of trees and forms a minimally maintained space for passive recreation. 





 Above and below, a small two-door structure at the south-western corner of the housing development mentioned above, part of which forms the northern path out of the space.





 Signage is always a good... sign. At very least, the council knows the space exists.

Reserve bounded by Cedar St/Laver Grove, Mayfield, Tasmania

I have not been able to find out anything at all about the estate surrounding this IR but I am going to suggest it is a subdivision of land ...