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Chapel Street Precinct
LOVE AND LEWIS 1913 🖤⁠ ⁠ The beautiful Edwa LOVE AND LEWIS 1913 🖤⁠ ⁠ The beautiful Edwardian Love and Lewis building on Chapel Street, with the name of the former drapery business still prominently displayed on the façade of the building.⁠ ⁠ Dafydd Lewis was born in Wales and apprenticed as a draper. He moved to Melbourne in 1890 and in 1892 he partnered with J. A. Love to open a drapery business on Brunswick Street. It was a huge success and the duo opened a second shop on the site of this building in 1897. In 1910 Love retired, but Lewis kept the business going and in 1913 tore down the old 2 storey building to erect this building. A 1913 article in The Prahran Telegraph describes the store: The ground floor would display “haberdashery, laces and fancy goods, silks, velveteens and prints.” And “the first floor will be devoted entirely to the sale of costumes, mantles and underclothing. The second floor will be utilised for the sale of millinery, trimmed and untrimmed, and flowers and other adornments. The third and fourth floors will be workrooms and are completely fire isolated from the lower floors by means of concrete floors and stairs.” Guess it was more important to protect the display rooms than the employees if a fire should break out!⁠ ⁠ The firm expanded and opened a now-demolished building on Bourke street. In 1941 the building was taken over and used as storage during the war. That same year, Lewis died. The business was sold to Maples Furniture store in Richmond who had decided to enter the drapery trade.⁠ ⁠ The building eventually housed several businesses, including Edments Jewellery, several garment manufacturers and Dinkum Pies. It is now the Love & Lewis Apartments and has a spectacular street art piece by @phlegm_art along Chapel Street.⁠ ⁠ 📸 & text by @melbourne_ghostsigns
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I'ts beginning to look a lot like... 🎄 #chapels I'ts beginning to look a lot like... 🎄 #chapelstreet
Xmas Cocktail Crawl on Chaps! 🍸 Chapel Street P Xmas Cocktail Crawl on Chaps! 🍸 Chapel Street Precinct boasts the best Cocktails in Australia and this Christmas, wow, do we need a drink! 🍹 Make the most of this glorious strip this silly season with a Cocktail Crawl along the 2.8km strip as our gift to you from Chapel Street Santa 🎄 #supportlocal #cheers⁠ ⁠ 🚩 Link in bio for the silly season sip trail! 💦 🎢
You can almost hear and taste the crunch of the fr You can almost hear and taste the crunch of the fried chicken in this @burgertory.au beauty 🗯😍😋 #chapelstreet
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@shoeme bringing all the fun stuff to #prahran wit @shoeme bringing all the fun stuff to #prahran with this mural on the side of their shop 👠 🦋 ✨
Happy Weekending from Greville Street! 🌤️ #gr Happy Weekending from Greville Street! 🌤️ #grevillestreet #chapelstreet
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