1971 19 Brooks Crescent, North Fitzroy

ID: 20656
Photographer: Scambler, Elinor
Copyright: library owns image (image on public access)
Org ID: FL1434

Description: Image held by Fitzroy Library. Looking North: 'Lauretta' 19 Brooks Crescent. Bought by the Housing Commission on 4 August 1970 for $6,000. Survey: 'repairable weartherboard'. It ws tenanted by an elderly widow who had lived there for nearly 30 years. Also visible is a Laneway and No. 1 Watkins Street to the right; part of a vacant block at No.17 to left; behind roof of 28-30 Salisbury Crescent and part roof of No 32 Salisbury Cresent. As of 2009: No. 21 and No. 23 (with revised numbering) seem to be the only Brooks Cresent houses still surviving. All 24 houses in the Crescent were rated 'sound' or 'repairable in the surveys.
Subject: weatherboard houses

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