Railton Bros, and Company,, later Watters & Sons, seed merchants, 251-253 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Railton Bros, and Company,, later Watters & Sons, seed merchants, 251-253 Swanston Street, Melbourne
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1985
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BIF-CITY 109293
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2023:__________________________________________________DATE: 1910;ASSOCIATIONS: Railton Bros, and Company (or Barnet Glass?);DESIGNER: Barnet, Nahun?;BUILDER: Henningsen, H - 91 Flinders Lane?Period: Edwardian renovation______________________________GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM___________________________Victorian Heritage Inventory H7822-12961866 - building on site. 1880 Panorama - 2 storey building. 1888 - 1 storey building (2 storeys at rear).___________________________CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONhttps://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/60672/images/44777_349578-00534?pId=59867Index card 1928-1989 minor works___________________________MAHLSTEDT FIRE INSURANCE PLAN SERIES STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIASeries 1, map 10251-253 3 storey masonry, Railton & Company seedsmen, rear lane entry___________________________LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX77758 Barnet, Nahun; Glass, Barnet Melbourne VIC Warehouses Henningsen, H - 91 Flinders Lane 1909 02 8 1210; MCC registration no 1210 [Burchett Index]. Fee 3.3.0three-storey warehouse (only building of type in date range?)___________________________CONTEXT (WITH GJM HERITAGE) 2020, HODDLE GRID HERITAGE REVIEWcontributory to Swanston Street North PrecinctFigure 4. A view of the west side of Swanston Street, between Little Bourke and Lonsdale streets, c1930-40, showing, in rectangle from left, 237 Swanston Street; T Roper Surgical Appliances 239-241 Swanston Street; Arthur J. Veall's Electrical Radio Stores 243-249 Swanston Street; Langsford Personality Clothes 251-253 Swanston Street, and Cole's Book Arcade 255 Swanston Street. (Source: Crothers c1930-1940, State Library of Victoria)...251-253 Swanston Street is a two storey Edwardian building with rather austere classical detail, a plain parapet and a pair of windows to the upper floor. It is quite legible as is the adjacent similarly scaled 255 Swanston Street dating from 1918 and designed by notable architect A A Fritsch. This building has distinctive ashlar incised lines in the stucco to part of the upper floor and a large arch-headed central window formerly divided into four panes with top lights. The parapet has a central raised section for lettered signs (Figure 4).___________________________NEWSPAPERS:1910Advocate (Melbourne, Vic. : 1868 - 1954)Saturday 19 November 1910 - Page 25https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170920307Messrs. Railton Bros, and Company, the well-known seed merchants of 271 Swanston-street, Melbourne, announce that owing to the- increasing demand for Wattera' seeds, they have found it necessary to secure larger premises, and have purchased the property situated at 251-258 Swanston-street(six doors below their present address) where they are erecting a new warehouse which will be fitted with all the latest, improvements.They will be removing to - their new address on the 28th inst..1911https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170926175RAILTON & COMPANY(The Original Firm, . Established 1866).Large StocKs of New Crop Seeds Just Landed.LUCERNE — FRENCH PROVENCE, TURKESTAN, HUNGARIAN... HUNTER RIVER, PERUVIAN, and ARABIAN.RAPE SEED —ENGLISH BROAD LEAP ESSEX.GRASSES and C L O V E R S :-ALL VARIETIES.Prlces of all lines by the GRAEME BUTLER 1989, LITTLE BOURKE STREET PRECINCT CONSERVATION STUDY ., cwt., or ton, on application.VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FARM SEEDS.Send for a Free Copy of our Beautifully Illustrated and Descriptive General Catalogue for 1911 which to now ready.251 253 SWANSTON-ST-. MELBNote OurNew Address,____________________________DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE-SANDS AND KENNY, SANDS & MCDOUGALLSands & McDougall Directory of Victoria1925WATTERS & SONS251 Seed Merchants; imprtra British & European213 seeds of all descriptions1942247-249 Veall, Arth. J. Py Ld, elec & radio251-253 Langsford Personality Clothes, tailors
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