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The first store was established as a drapery in Smith Street, Collingwood, Victoria by Mark Foy.This business prospered, occupying three shops by 1875 and six by 1880. Ownership was transferred to his son Francis Foy in partnership with William Gibson in March 1883, but very soon after Francis Foy sold his half share to Gibson and moved to Sydney with his brother Mark, establishing Mark Foy's ...
On 23 May 1851, the road was renamed Smith Street, after John Thomas Smith, a seven-time mayor of Melbourne. [1] By the 1860s, Smith Street was a busy and popular suburban shopping strip. [2] Smith Street contains restaurants and cafés and also has numerous shops selling cheap household goods.
Smith named his department store after the Au Bon Marche in Paris. Bought by Selfridge Provincial Stores in 1926 and subsequently acquired by John Lewis Partnership in 1940. 1877 1975 [55] [190] [241] Bon Marché Gloucester: Started by John Rowe Pope on Northgate Street, the business was bought by the Drapery Trust in the late 1920s from the ...
The 250-seat Last Laugh opened in 1976 at 64 Smith Street, Collingwood in the former Foresters Hall. [1] A smaller upstairs venue, Le Joke, was added in 1981. [2]
Collingwood Yards is a not-for-profit arts organization and arts precinct located in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Collingwood Yards hosts visual artists, musicians, performers and a range of arts organisations across a large inner city site and forms part of the Collingwood Arts Precinct which includes Circus Oz . [ 1 ]
3CR is an independent community radio station that is located at the Victoria Parade end of Smith Street. The station has been based in the suburb since 1977 and its frequency is 855AM. [17] PBS 106.7FM relocated from St Kilda to Collingwood and is located at 47 Easey Street. PBS is a community radio station that celebrated its 25th year of ...
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Newtown was later renamed Collingwood, [13] and the area now called Fitzroy (west of Smith Street) was made a ward of the Melbourne City Council. On 9 September 1858, Fitzroy became a municipality in its own right, separate from the City of Melbourne. [ 14 ]