East Melbourne, Simpson Street 105, 107, 109, 111, 113, Nelson Square
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A red brick and pebble dash two storey terrace of five houses, with smooth render moulded string courses and timber strapping. The corner dwelling has an oriel window. It is much larger than the others, having twelve rooms to the others' six. Interesting woven metal panels to fence and 'Wunderlich' pressed metal ceilings to the entrance. The balconies have been filled in.
Originally built as flats, with one flat upstairs and one flat downstairs in each house. An outside staircase gave access to the upper flat. The original name of the building was Bremen Square, which perhaps reflected the ancestory of the owner, Dietrich Martin. It was changed to the more patriotic Nelson Square a year later, at the outbreak of the First World War. Martin died in 1931 but his executors continued to administer the property until c.1958, when it was subdivided and sold to individual owners, two of the houses going to existing tenants.
Owners: 1914-1931: Dietrich Martin, hotel keeper. He owned the Conference Hotel, cnr. Queen and Flinders Street. He was frequently in court charged with a variety of offences from selling Australian made cigars as genuine Havanas; trading on a Sunday; employing his billiard-marker for more than 60 hours a week, and failing to give him a half holiday each week; and suffering an unlawful game to be played on his licensed premises. The unlawful game involved a slot machine. For 3d. a player had the chance of winning cigars.
1931-1958: estate of Dietrich Martin
Occupiers: None listed in 1915
105
1916: Joseph Frieze
1917-1919: Wolf Friedman
1920-c.1930: Angus Leonard
c.1935-1959: (Beryl)Jean Rule
1960-1965+: Doris Louise Bartlett (owner/occupier)
107
1916-1919: Samuuel Charles Cronin
1920: Olive Treadgold
c.1925: Vida Wilmot
c.1930: Mary ?
c.1935: Ella Marks
c.1940-c.1950: Margaret Ellen McKinnon
c.1955-c.1965+: Doris Margaret McKinnon (owner/occupier from c.1959)
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1916-1919: Edgar Welford
1920-1944: Harold Villiers, manager, died 1944;
Annie Villiers, wife; John Conrad Villiers, clerk, son.
c.1920-1960: Annie Villiers
c.1965+: Alice Frampton Cruse (owner/occupier)
111
1916-c.1925: Louise Campbell and her daugher, Jean May Campbell (1901-1984). Jean Campbell, by 1925, was an elocution teacher, but in the 1930s turned her hand to romance fiction and became highly successful in that field.
c.1930: Mollie Smith [??]
c.1934-1942: Benjamin Beaconsfield Issell, civil servant, Director of Southern Theatres Pty. Ltd., which owned picture theatres in Williamstown and Newport. He was also a councillor on the Williamstown Council but was penalised £248 for acting as a councillor while not qualified to do so. In addition the company entered into and performed contracts for profit with the City of Williamstown c.1955-1958: Isobel Florence Issell
c.1959-c.1960: Shirley Corrine Price (owner/occupier)
c.1965+: Isobella Violet Dixon (owner/occupier)
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1916-c.1920: Alfred Ruhe/Luhre [?]
c.1925: Ellen Whittaker
1928: Albert James McCormick, hotel licencee (Camp Hotel, Dimboola)[Argus]
c.1930-c.1940: Ellen Tessa Ebbles
1939: Thomas Smallwood Evans, retired traveller [Argus]
c.1945: Emily May Anderson
c.1950: Nance [?] Lindsay Rickeby
c.1955-1965+: Alice McNaught, licencee of the Camp Hotel, Dimboola prior to 1928.
Lewis, Miles, Suburban Backlash, Blooming Books, Hawthorn, Vic., 1999
Burchett Index, City of Melbourne Notices of Intent to Built, 26 Mar 1914, Reg. No. 4802.
City of Melbourne i-Heritage database: https://ex.melbourne.vic.gov.au/iheritageweb/BIF.asp?HeritageId=960
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