Fwd: [TramsDownUnder] Sunny Melbourne

From:	Andrew Cook <d3619@hotmail.com.au>

The Victorian Academy of Teaching in Queensberry Street, North Melbourne, was also the site of the Melbourne College of Printing and Graphic Arts until 1994.

A Soviet style building (now demolished) was out the back, where printing trade apprentices learnt their trade. See attached snap of the building in 1971.

Cheers,

Andrew Cook, who once attended here for training in a trade that is now virtually dead.

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From: tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com <tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Mal Rowe <mal.rowe@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, 22 August 2025 12:03 PM
To: TramsDownUnder <tramsdownunder@googlegroups.com>; Blogspot <mal.rowe.pcc980@blogger.com>
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Sunny Melbourne

 

Yesterday was a beautiful sunny Autumn day in the GTCOTS, so I decided
to add to my collection of images of Z3s in service while they are still
around.

These pics are in Queensberry St North Melbourne with some fine heritage
buildings as backdrop.

The red brick building now houses the Victorian Academy of Teaching and
Leadership. It was originally a primary school and was designed by Henry
Bastow a prominent architect of public buildings in the 1880s

The grey building is the former North Melbourne Town Hall, and before
that Hotham Town Hall.  It was designed by George Raymond Johnson, built
in 1876  and now houses a library and art space.

Mal Rowe on set for the filming location of "Fisk"