56 High Street

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• Edward's Boot Repairs (1920s)
• Tom Hay Saddlery
• Jack Banner Boot Repairs (1940s)
• Derwent Valet Cleaners (1954 - 1999)
• 20th Century Artifacts (2003 - present)
  
  

Streetscape showing signage for Thomas Hay, Saddler in 1936 (Photo courtesy Weekly Times, Melbourne 4 April 1936) Thomas Hay owned land which is now 14, 16 & 18 Pioneer Avenue but unless he was renting, I cannot find a connection to 56 High Street - yet...

54 and 56 High Street for sale by auction in 1951 - mentions the saddlery on the actual site so it must have been at the rear of the block. The street frontage is shown as 59 feet and 8 inches which converts to 18.19 metres - the current 54 is 4.6 metres and 56 is 13.6 metres. So although I haven't been able to find confirmation at the land titles office, we know this is definitely the right location.

1941, the house with the picket fence and Jack Banner Boot repairer located at 56 High Street, demolished in the early 1950s. Jack Banner later moved across the road and was on the staff of De Jersey's Store

One of several posters created for Jim Anderson in the 1950s - now on display at Lindisfarne Dry Cleaners, who bought the business from Doug Boote in 1999

Staff of Derwent Valet Dry Cleaners circa 1967 (Photo courtesy of Karen Morrisby)

Derwent Valet Dry Cleaners in the 1990s

20th Century Artifacts in 2023 (Photo courtesy of Google Maps)

• Chain of Title - the history of the original land grant issued in 1857. The total land area was one rood and five perches. This covered the land between what is now 54 High Street all the way to the corner of Stephen Street.

Dry Cleaners

• Olden
• Jim Anderson 1954 to ???
• Rick Sedgwick ??? to 1984
• Doug Boote 1984 to 1999