More tram trips

This covers our explorations over a couple of days.  The first on 16 June was actually a walk from 505 to inspect some small cottages Frances had found near Chapel Street in Prahran.  We began walking down St Kilda Rd and along High St. Chimney pots have long been an interest: these are both on a cottage on High St.

So is this well ornamented building.

Getting close to Chapel St.  the Mechanics Institute was impressive.

We turned into Macquarie St and noted these well preserved cottages ...

.. but the main interest was this pair of Carpenter Gothic dwellings.  They are listed on a Heritage site ...

.. and one has a spiffy chimney.

We wove back on to Chapel St noting this impressive facade above a kebab shop.

A few samples of art in the street.  This is one of two on the ends of the Melbourne Polytechnic building.  The other end depicted a Kookaburra.

Just at the start of Macquarie St: I have no idea who the subject is, and the artists name has been tagged over.

This one is in Macquarie Lane (aka St Matthews Lane) leading to the church.  It is by Aerosol one.com and you are very welcome to suggest a meaning!

Our second outing was on 17 June with a prime focus of visiting Runner's World on Kew High Street, using public transport.  We began with a 16 tram from 505 via St Kilda and then various roads to Cotham St.  (Google Maps offers a great variety of possibilities with several changes of tram.  I found it impossible to recreate our route on that app as it will only plot a single trip using public transport and not mix modes.  In the end I have done a mud map using Google Earth to give the basic idea with the changing colours reflecting different legs.)

To start we took a simple approach: get on a 16 through St Kilda and get off at Cotham Rd (red line).  We then cut through to High St Kew (blue line) going through an area the architecture of which reminded me a lot of Brighton SA were we lived for several years.  Of course it is a lot further from the beach!

Good chimneys!

We then walked up High St to the Kew Croquet Club (still blue line) which looks very posh. As it took somewhat over an hour to get there I am disinclined to try playing there. 

We found our way to Runners World where Frances' need for new shoes was handled by a very efficient and friendly guy.  They had less photos of star runners but this is a doozy: Bill Rodgers, after winning the Big M in 1982 in 2:11.

We had trouble finding an unlocked dunnie - the signs talked about MLAK keys (cost = $64!) which is ridiculous.  We eventually found an unlocked toilet at the footy oval (although the system kept opening the doors) and then diverted into the Booroondora Cemetery.  A general view of the grounds.

There were a surprising number of headstones not in English.  As well as this French one we saw a couple in Polish and some in Italian.  In this one, the lady had a very good innings: just over the century.

This is the best known memorial in the cemetery: the Springthorpe Memorial.  A very sad story but it does explain that the person commemorated was the wife of the person who built it although her name does not appear.

I went in to the Office to see if they had any material to hand out and found this portrait of Dr John William Springthorpe who set up the memorial

Rejoining High St we noted this nice old building ...

.. and an old NAB.

This was part of the Court House, but now a pub.

Hopping on a 48 tram to the city - purple line - I noted these two old places somewhere in Richmond.

We hopped off in Swanston Street and caught another tram - green line - home.  If we decide to go back to Kew I think the City route is several minutes quicker than the St Kilda option.