What is Your Home @ 3206?
Do you live in postcode 3206? Have you lived here in the past? On these pages you can find street views of your house from 1974 and 2013 and stories associated with these houses. Find out how your home and street have changed over the last half century. What is the history of your house, who has lived in it and who lives in it now?
If you have images of your house and people in the past and present you are invited to upload them to our site here.
How did Your Home @ 3206 begin?
In the 1970s, concerned by the destruction of Victoria’s building heritage, a group called the Committee for Urban Action (CUA) photographed an extraordinary number of streetscapes in inner-city Melbourne and Victorian regional towns. The huge collection of more than 2000 reels of 35mm film – over 70,000 photographs in all – was donated to the State Library of Victoria by Barbara Nevin on behalf of the CUA in 1977.
One of the inner-city suburbs selected by the Committee for Urban Action was South Melbourne. In December 2015 the Middle Park and Albert Park History Group made a donation of $5000.00 to the SLV towards a project to digitise the negatives and make them freely available on the State Library’s website, with the agreement that the first set of images to be digitised would be those of Middle Park and Albert Park.
The original 1974 photos were not given a street number - only the street name, the side of the street (ie north or south; east or west) and the intersecting streets at either end of each film strip. The Middle Park and Albert Park History Group undertook to identify each house in Middle Park (and a small section of Albert Park) by its current street number and these became the basis for Your Home @ 3206.
In 2013, Robyn Clinch, a town planner at the City of Port Phillip, undertook to replicate the 1974 images as part of her PhD. She donated the images to the Middle Park and Albert Park History Group and these were also given their street number and uploaded to the database.
Middle Park is our home and the role of the Middle Park and Albert Park History Group is to protect, preserve and promote the stories of our buildings and our people. We invite you to contribute to preserving that history for future generations by providing information and images about your home and its people by sharing your story here.
