Daly
East Melbourne, Grey Street 023, 025 - Burchett
1872 Trinnick and Timmins to build 2 houses for Peter Daley.
Occupied 1874 by no. 23 - Peter Daly
no. 25 - Jane Daly
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East Melbourne, Grey Street 025, Airlie
Two storey, single fronted house with verandah and balcony. The cast iron ornamentation has been removed. The front fence is not original.
Peter Daly was a member of the Detective Police Force. He built the house in 1872, but died only two years later. His will describes the house as four rooms and a kitchen. His wife continued to live there until her own death in 1914. Her death notice in the Argus states that she died at her residence, Airlie, Grey Street, East Melbourne
Policing East Melbourne
In 1883 the Police Department rented a house on a wide block of land in Darling Street, East Melbourne. This house would become the residence of the sergeant-in-charge of the new police station. Next door, on the undeveloped part of the land, a small two-roomed, wooden office was erected, and a separate lavatory.
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