Albion Street

East Brunswick Auto

 

Brunswick is laid out on a grid, with the big streets such as Melville Road, Sydney Road, Lygon Street and Holmes/Nicholson Streets running north south. Apart from Brunswick Road (the southern boundary) and Moreland Road (the northern boundary) the streets running east west are small and narrow. However some of these are main routes in disguise. Albion Street has a bus service that takes you all the way to Essendon, so it is really quite an artery. It starts at the top of Lygon Street Brunswick East, with this wonderful old ghost garage just opposite the imposing façade of the Lyndhurst Club Hotel.

Yesterday I was out around Albion Street. It was a beautiful late spring day and I found a few more ghost signs.
 
Albion Street has many old corner shops and here is one with a terrific sign – or perhaps it was actually an old factory or distribution site for Swallow’s Biscuits?

Another blog also references this sign, but still no wiser about whether the building was just a shop.

I was very excited to visit an apartment in the Commons Building just a few metres south of Albion Street, near Anstey Station. This apartment building designed by Brunswick Architects Breathe Architecture, won an award earlier this year. A friend has bought into this community, and I just love the rooftop garden, complete with beehives, laundry and hanging space for all (like in Europe), communal bbq and of course the view over the rooftops of Brunswick….

Looking north towards Coburg

Looking east towards the Dandenongs

Looking southwest towards Brickworks