Fitzroy Street, Melbourne
Fitzroy Street is the major thoroughfare of the beachside Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. Its fortunes have risen and fallen along with that of St Kilda itself, from wealthy residential district to a popular working and middle class beachside entertainment district, to cheap and seedy, and popular again in the late 20th century. In recent years Fitzroy Street itself has gone from a popular restaurant strip to the situation in 2017 where only a few restaurants remain amongst kebab shops and convenience stores catering the backpackers and many empty shopfronts. It is named after Charles Augustus FitzRoy, Governor of New South Wales in 1842 when St Kilda was first subdivided.
Fitzroy Street, Melbourne
Looking towards Grey Street along Fitzroy Street from Albert Park in 1890, featuring the various buildings that made up the Terminus (now the George) Hotel
St Kilda Junction in the 1880s. From left to right, the streets visible are Wellington Street, High Street (now St Kilda Road), Barkly Street and Fitzroy Street. The tram tracks turning right into Fitzroy Street are visible in front of the Junction Hotel
St Kilda is an inner seaside suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south-east of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Port Phillip local government area. St Kilda recorded a population of 19,490 at the 2021 census.
Luna Park and the Palais Theatre on the St Kilda foreshore
Early lithograph (1864) of St Kilda main beach, looking toward west beach and Port Melbourne
An 1880s photograph of St Kilda Junction looking south towards the Junction Hotel, cnr Barkly Street/ High Street (now St Kilda Road)
An 1890 photograph of Fitzroy Street looking toward the three blocks that made up the George Hotel
