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Richmond History Group

The Richmond History Group is based at Avebury House. The group maintains a collection of books, photographs and other memorabilia illustrating and recording the history of Avebury House and the development of the surrounding suburb of Richmond. We seek to expand the collection and have begun a project to digitise items from the collection and make them available online. This is a work-in-progress and we will be adding items to this site from now on.

If you have photographs or other material concerning Richmond’s past, we would love to hear from you. Perhaps you would like to donate items to the collection, or allow us to view the material and if suitable, borrow items for recording and adding to our digital archive. We would of course return the items to you in the same condition as we received them.

If you would like to learn more about the group, or become involved, please contact Andrea at 381-6615.

Richmond Village Construction 1978–80

18/12/2017

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The current Richmond Village buildings at the south-western corner of Stanmore Rd and North Avon Rd were constructed in several phases between 1978–80. The new buildings replaced a number of older shops and houses that had long occupied sites at the north end of Stanmore Road. The new shopping centre represented a significant update to this commercial area and we are fortunate that one of the store owners made a record of the work over this period.

In 1978 Roy Burn ran a shoe store at 333 Stanmore Road. Roy took a series of 43 photos of the Richmond Village construction, beginning with the demolition of some of the old buildings and showing various stages in the construction of the new ones. We have prepared two PDF documents of these photos:

Showing the photos as they were presented in the original album --


richmond_village_photos-album_1978-80-a4.pdf
File Size: 8285 kb
File Type: pdf
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Showing each photo scanned at A4 size --
richmond_village_construction-roy_burn_photos.pdf
File Size: 31721 kb
File Type: pdf
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Some of the photos have handwritten notes recorded on their reverse, and a record of this information along with some other material about the shopping centre have been collected in another document:
richmond_village-roy_burn_photos-metadata.pdf
File Size: 140 kb
File Type: pdf
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Complementing these documents is a record of some contemporary advertising material from the Pegasus Post, November 1980, when the complex opened:
richmond_village-pegasus_post_1980-11-12.pdf
File Size: 2226 kb
File Type: pdf
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