Sunday 15 March 2009

Remnants of an industrial past

Cremorne Street, Richmond

5 comments:

  1. I was watching the clock as Paul Kelly was singing 'leaps and bounds' on Saturday.

    Also I drove past the Amcor site near the yarra river and Chandler Highway and it is up for sale. Massive site close to the city.

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  2. Not so industrial when it was originally a fun park way back when.
    Twas known as Cremorne Gardens with it's own train station, etc.
    LOL @ DB, was thinking the same thing when he was singing Leaps and Bounds ;)

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  3. Hey db. I was thinking about the clock when I heard him singing Leaps and Bounds on the radio and how it was such an appropriate setting.

    Wow, that's a huge site. I didn't realise Amcor was moving out (or had already).

    Hi Jayne. I actually went down Cremorne Street looking for what a new sign on Swan Street pointing to what was the "Cremorne Pleasure Gardens" (because why would you not want to visit a site dubbed Pleasure Gardens?). But when you walk down there, there's nothing else to signify where these gardens actually were, which I thought was a bit stupid (or maybe I'm blind). So thanks for the link! I'll have a sticky later (when I'm not meant to be working).

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  4. Jayne, I'm back! Thanks for that link. How fascinating! The gardens sound like they were pretty special. There is a big brass plaque on a building down there now commemorating Australia's first hot air balloon flight, but not much else to hint at the street's days as home to the "pleasure gardens".

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  5. Hey Jayne, That is amazing history regarding the gardens.

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