Some years ago
a friend showed me this place in the back streets of Fitzroy and I've
been trying to find it ever since. Today I found it again, on Hanover Street - the place where
it appears Victorian stonemasons left their mark during the building of a grand bluestone residence in 1880 (the date as recorded in one of the marks; see below).
It looks like the marks were made in a previously unexposed area of the stone wall that, judging by the light colour of the stone compared to the stones around it (see last pic), used to be covered by a building - that is, before the flats were built next door. Now they look over the washing lines of the folks who live in the flats.
It looks like the marks were made in a previously unexposed area of the stone wall that, judging by the light colour of the stone compared to the stones around it (see last pic), used to be covered by a building - that is, before the flats were built next door. Now they look over the washing lines of the folks who live in the flats.
I am amazed at how many names there are and that they are from different places: Ballarat, Colac. I would have thought that it would have been one master mason and his team.
ReplyDeleteThese stone mason name etched on a wall are looking nice..
ReplyDeletePosted by: Mary Davis | Stone Mason