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Smith Street

Eastern Road

Smith Street,, COLLINGWOOD VIC 3066 - Property No B7230

Smith Street forms the boundary between Fitzroy and Collingwood and was probably Melbourne's most important early suburban road. It was the main route from Melbourne to Heidelberg in the 1840s, and became a prominent local shopping and commercial strip by the 1860s. The coming of the cable tram along Smith Street in the 1880s stimulated further growth, and in the late nineteenth century it was the most heavily built-up shopping street outside the city itself. In the early twentieth ... more

B7230

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