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Fenton
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Bedggood: Friendly Footwear
Daniel Bedggood arrived in Melbourne in 1854. Almost immediately he set up a boot and shoe factory in Richmond. A successful business from the start, succeeding generations kept it going and his son, John, oversaw the transition to a new and bigger factory in Jolimont, at 22 Agne...
Collection item
East Melbourne, Hotham Street 081 - Burchett
Hotham Street originally called Fitzroy Street. Apparently No.81, originally No.88. 1855. MCC BR: Brennand and Brooks for Jas. Glue a house, 5 rooms, kitchen. Unfinished. 1856, 1857, 1880. See notes on index card. Some uncertainty about these dates. 1860. Name mentioned: Jas. Glu...
Place
East Melbourne, Powlett Street 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94, 96, 98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, Canterbury Terrace
A row of 16 terrace houses of five bays. The two end bays each comprising two houses and the central bay of four houses are arcaded, while the intervening bays, each of four houses, have cast iron verandahs and balconies. The terrace is often described as the longest in Melbourne...
Place
East Melbourne, Vale Street 024
A two storey rendered terrace with austere rendered embellishments and two storey balustraded colonnaded parapet over. The fence and verandah tiles are intact as is the fine leadlight over the entry. [East Melbourne and Jolimont Conservation Study 1983]
Collection item
Jolimont, Agnes Street 022, 024, 026 - Burchett
Built 1886 for A Fenton and Sons, earthernware manufacturers. Builder Daniel Sinclair. Fenton and Sons succeeded by Bedgood and Company - date unknown.
Place
Jolimont, Agnes Street 027, Morpeth Villa
Double fronted, single storey, brick house with verandah
Person
TOVELL, Ada
ADA TOVELL – FIRST WOMAN DENTIST Michelle Calder has contacted us seeking information about her grand-mother’s maternal grand-mother, Ada Tovell (nee Fenton), who she said was the first woman in Australia to practise as a dentist. Ada Fenton had been a student at Ormiston College...