In the afternoon

The cool change came through while I was eating lunch. Gobbled it down, snatched up my camera and shot out into it. Good strong breeze and cool with it. The sun was pretty hot still but I got a decent walk in, a few more lanes behind Whatsit Street.


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Nice effort on the noughties reno but the windows need to be the same level as the doors or each other and those bushes or trees or whatever are going to look weird and bunched up when they get big.


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This was the clearest view available of this house. There were a lot of fifties houses where I walked today but half of them were even more obscured than this one.

Check out the frangipannis. Beautiful and as old as the house. Can't guess the age of the tea tree at the front.


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Fifties house, sixties (?) windows, seventies brick-over, noughties paintjob. And is that thing under the tree an old copper boiler of the kind my great-grandmother used for washing clothes? Anyone?


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Not sure what looks weirder, a fifities house with a bullnose veranda or one with a brick over. Other than the weirdness it was well-kept and pleasant.


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I think the front bit is a seventies addition with new awnings imitating the fifties look but don't quote me on that, the guttering on the front corner might be older than the seventies.


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Argh. I'm hating the tacky brick-over and the flyscreens don't improve it but the shape of the house is not bad.


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Working on the assumption that the brick veranda and the addition happened at the same time, I'd put the two-storey addition in the sevenites. Those two big windows have a seventies look too, with that wide band across the middle.


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I like this one, cladding aside. Nice fifties colours and original veranda posts by the look of it. It was also a clear shot after several really obscured houses.

This documenting the fifties houses is fun. There's a lot more of them that I noticed when I was walking the streets of the Peninsula last year but not nearly as many as the forties and seventies houses.

It's got overcast again since I got home and with any luck it'll rain and bring the temperature down properly.