This drawing shows a proposal for the Fishermen’s Bend Community Centre which was to be built near the existing shops. It was drawn by Ernest Fooks, a significant émigré architect that arrived in Australia from Vienna in 1939. As the City of Port Phillip Heritage review notes: “The original masterplan also proposed a range of community facilities, the inclusion of which had been strongly urged by the Housing Commission of Victoria’s social reformer members. The central avenue was to have two blocks of shops flanking its northern end (The estate’s main entrance off Williamstown Road) with a community centre forming a focal point in a large park at the southern end. The provision of shops became the first priority, as it was recorded in the annual report that the nearest existing shops were a mile away and there was still no regular transport at that time.”
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