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Havachatwithhexy... 17-Jun-2005 At 5:03:12 PM HEX

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nmonteith
17/06/2005
>please... for gods sake.. anyone!! I don't want to spend the weekend shopping on >Chapel Street...

Nicht Angst !!! , grass-hopper ...
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'...History :
Joseph Crook is believed to have built the first house in Chapel Street in 1849, when the street was known as Fitzroy Road. Chapel Street was named after the first church in Prahran, an Independent (or Congregational) Church, built 100 metres north of Malvern Road on the east side, between 1850 and 1852. The first minister of “The Chapel”, as it was known locally, was Rev William Moss. In an address to the Collins Street Independent Church in 1888 the Rev. Moss said, "I may mention that our chapel at Prahran was the only place of worship in the district for over two years, and ultimately gave to the business street of that flourishing city its name Chapel Street". The Chapel was closed in 1859, used as a school building until about 1883, when it was demolished. The only surviving church in the commercial part of Chapel Street, the Baptist Church, which was built in the 1850’s on the corner of Wilson Street, is now the Irish theme pub Bridie O'Reilly’s.

A bridge linking Chapel Street and Church Street, Richmond was not built until 1857 and a ferry service operated over the Yarra River.

In the 1850’s much of the area between Commercial Road and the Yarra River was formed of deep clay deposits which resulted in a number of brickmakers establishing businesses on both sides of Chapel Street. The last of the brickworks, The South Yarra Fire Brick Company continued until the 1980’s when it was sold to the Singapore Developer Jack Chia for “The South Yarra Project” development which was to include The Como Centre.

Virtually from its beginning Chapel Street, between Toorak Road and Dandenong Road was a trading and shopping street with flour milling, butchers, bakers, drapers, boot makers, general stores, carpenters, bricklayers, farrier and blacksmiths, chemists and an undertaker...'
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Now go forth and per-see-ve the experience with fresh-sensory-aware-ness-es-isms ...

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