St Kilda Walking Tour
From riches to rags and back again
This is a walking tour of St Kilda’s domestic architecture and changing fortunes of the seaside suburb.
Narrated by Peter Mares from ABC Radio National, the tour guides you through some St Kilda streets that show how history is captured in bricks and mortar.
You can play this audio on your computer or transfer the files to a portable MP3 player.
Print out the map before you set out or pick it up from the Street Cafe and various other venues in St Kilda.
St Kilda audio walking map (PDF 160kb) or (GIF 124kb)
To download the files right click the link and select 'save target as' / 'save link as' and save to your computer.
The files can be played by a range of media player software including: iTunes, Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player.
This tour is one of the Recommended Tours on Vic-Heritage, our iPhone app. Download the app from Apple's iTunes store.
St Kilda walking tour in separate tracks.
Stop 1 - Summerland Mansions (MP3 3641kb)
Stop 2 - The evolution of St Kilda (MP3 1514kb)
Stop 3 - Houses on Victoria St (MP3 3137kb)
Stop 4 - Things are not as they seem (MP3 1790kb)
Stop 5 - Development and protest (MP3 2280kb)
Stop 6 - Outside the Espy (MP3 1608kb)
Stop 7 - Alfred Square (MP3 1355kb)
Stop 8 - Cream brick veneer (MP3 1400kb)
Stop 9 - Church Square (MP3 2788kb)
Stop 10 - Mansion subdivisions (MP3 1214kb)
Stop 11 - Queen Anne (MP3 1281kb)
Stop 12 - Art Deco (MP3 1609kb)
Stop 13 - Californian Bungalow (MP3 1177kb)
Stop 14 - Victorians transformed (MP3 1445kb)
Stop 16 - Halcyon days (MP3 968kb)
Acknowledgements
This tour has been created by Heritage Victoria and funded through the strategy, Victoria’s Heritage: Strengthening our communities.
Credits:
Producer: Malcolm McKinnon
Narrator: Peter Mares
Music and sound design: AYJ Cabrie
Map design: Dianna Wells Design
Heritage Victoria credits:
Scriptwriter and project manager: Tanya Wolkenberg
Steering Committee: Frances O’Neill, Kerry Taylor, Amanda Bacon, Kerry Jordan.
Thanks also to Martin Zweep, Pam Enting, Jennifer Dawson and Pauline Hitchins.
Thanks to Carmel Shute, Allan Powell, Robin Grow, Alex Njoo and Seamus O’Hanlon for giving up their time to be interviewed.
Thanks to Kirsty Hawkes, Rachel Faggeter, and Dione Gilmour for providing feedback on earlier versions of the walk, Richard Peterson for A Place of Sensuous Resort and Meyer Eidelson for early discussions.
This project has received in-kind support from the City of Port Phillip, St Kilda Historical Society, and ABC Radio National.
Special thanks to Peter Johnson for generously sharing his knowledge of local buildings.