Overview
Research of Sands
and McDougall's Post Office Directories, held on microfiche at Stonnington Council, Toorak Rd, yielded information on the
names of listed occupiers of the first houses to be built in the strip between View St/Black St and Elgar Rd. The author's
home is in this strip!
Notes:
1. Dates may not be accurate, as
many entries in the PO Directory are known to be up to two years later than the actual dates
2.
House numbers in Mont Albert Rd eastwards from Union Rd were changed in 1927. Houses built before then are denoted by
the new numbers.
3. It appears that numbers in the new sequence were allotted only
to existing houses. House numbers were not shown in the Post Office Directory prior to about 1915.
4.
Several property occupiers are indicated as "unknown", due to the non-availability of data in the Post Office Directories
for some years
5. Many houses have been demolished and replaced with units.
6.
The properties on the north side from 403 to 425 are protected, being within the Black's Estate Heritage area
South Side
---> View St
398 1915 Tinewell (still standing)
400
1922 Piggot (demolished - now units)
---- Laneway
402 1918 Hallaway (demolished - now
units)
404 1925 Finmore (still standing - author's home)
406
1926 Naylor (still standing - rear part subdivided into 406A in 1990s)
408 1917 Glenn (still
standing)
410 1916 Ross (demolished - now units)
412 1915 Steinwell
(demolished - now units)
414 1927 Clark (demolished - now units)
416
1924 Perry (demollshed - now units)
418 1917 Dempsey (demolished - now units)
420
1915 West (demolished - became Streeton Court in 1968)
422 1924 Howslip (demolished - now
units)
North Side
--->Black St
401 unknown (still standing)
403 1928
Parkinson (still standing)
405 1927 Wean (still standing)
407 unknown
(still standing)
--> Proudfoot
St
409 unknown (demolished, rebuilt
411 1951 occupier
unknown
413 unknown
415 1923 Webb
417 1925
Dodwell
---> View St
419
1927 McKenzie
421 1927 Smith
423 1928 occupier unknown
425
1910 Black
427 1928 Gleeson
--->
Rowland St
429 1966 Bates
431 1937 occupier unknown
433 1966
occupier unknown
433A 1966 occupier unknown
435 1940 occupier unknown
(possibly Blair)
437 unknown (became Laurencia Court 1968)
439 1905
Lothian
441 1926 Mattheson
--- Laneway
443 1928
Arnett (possibly 1924 )
