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2 unusual facts about Fitzroy Street


Fitzroy Street, Melbourne

Fitzroy St is named for Charles Augustus FitzRoy, governor of the colony at the time that St Kilda was expanding from its original seaside setting.

St Kilda railway station

The St Kilda station was ideal for commercial use, as it is situated on busy Fitzroy Street, and was subsequently sold off.



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Asher Bilu

Bilu and Ivan Durrant were the initiators of United Artists Gallery, an artist cooperative situated in the room vacated by Georges Mora's Tolarno Gallery in Fitzroy Street St Kilda.

Martial Bourdin

Later, police investigators discovered that Bourdin had left his room on Fitzroy Street in London and traveled by tram from Westminster to Greenwich Park.