Elegant Living in Thoresby Grove

A lovely suburban street our Thoresby Grove.

Fine examples of Edwardian villas, a split level roadway in the manner popular last century. A heritage overlay on part of the street.

Many large, attractive gardens can still be seen around well-maintained original houses.

It all points to a comfortable, genteel piece of suburban Melbourne - with  century of ambience behind it.

Table Talk, 11.10.1928, Page 39

Cars and their Owners

MRS HUNT, of ''Bonna Vista,“ Thoresby grove, Ivanhoe, has just purchased a 20 h.p. 6-cylinder Armstrong Siddeley saloon.

(From our astute observer Nilss in Austria)

We do not have insight to the colour scheme chosen by Mrs Hunt of "Bonna Vista". Whatever the duco, the 1928 Armstrong Siddeley would have made a stately addition to the streetscape.

Surely boys would have stopped their games to ogle at Mrs Hunt passing by in her new motor car!

A substantial, elegant conveyance - did Mrs Hunt drive herself about, resplendent in scarf and bonnet, with the canopy down?

A trip into that new Eaglemont Village to Finch the Butcher, a run along the Boulevard taking in the semi-rural scenes, dropping off children at the Grammar School?

"Now let's see - Wednesday. Thank Goodness, I can now fit in both bridge and the Hospital Auxillary meeting with my new Armstrong Siddeley saloon."

OTHER THORESBY RESIDENTS OF NOTE

NEVIL - Thoresby Grove's
fat cat
Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), Wednesday 20 May 1953, page 6

This cat is yard long, weighs 301b.

Eaglemont (Vic.) has a tabby cat a yard long (nose-tip to tail-tip). It is 11% years old, weighs 30lb., and is 28 in. around the waist.

The giant cat, called Nevil, is owned by Mrs Z. H. Stokes, of Thoresby Grove, Eaglemont.

The secretary of the Melbourne Cat Club, Mr George Dyke, says Nevil is the biggest cat he has ever seen'.

It will be exhibited at the club's show in the Melbourne Town Hall on May 30. The show is in aid of the orthopaedic section of the Children's Hospital.