Historical information
House was rented by Kim Tarpey between October 1983 and June 1985. It was one of the buildings originally part of Birds Orchard. Harold Bird was her landlord, a retired primary school teacher who, when she knew him was driving the mobile library bus. Her partner had him as a teacher at Montmorency Primary in grade 4.
The house was next door to what is now a bushland reserve near the Pauline Toner Reserve. It was on the corner of Pitt and Arthur St - the driveway was near the roundabout and went off to the right of the driveway that now belongings to 220 Pitt street and which was bushland at the time. It was sold in 1985 and consequently demolished, a large house has replaced it. It was situated approximately where the front door of No. 218 is nowadays with the facade roughly in line with the now garage wall to the left of this front door.
Physical description
Digital file only - scanned from personal photo album on loan (27 images)
List of images
EDHS_04644-1.tif Kitchen window looking towards Eucalyptus Road, 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-2.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-3.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-4.tif Kitchen looking towards Pitt Street Reserve, 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-5.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-6.tif Bathroom walkway/laundry, 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-7.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-8.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-9.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-10.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-11.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-12.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-13.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-14.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-15.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-16.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-17.tif Lounge window looking towards Mount Pleasant Road, 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-18.tif Fire place in lounge, 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-19.tif Fire place in lounge, 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-20.tif View from lounge room window looking towards corner of Eucalyptus and Mount Pleasant roads, 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-21.tif View from lounge room window looking towards corner of Eucalyptus and Mount Pleasant roads, 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-22.tif View from lounge room looking towards Pitt Street and Wattle Grove, 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-23.tif View from lounge room looking towards Pitt Street and Wattle Grove, 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-24.tif 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-25.tif Back garden showing previous tank stumps. There was a hole in the wall where a possum got through, 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-26.tif View from back fence looking towards Pitt Street and Wattle Grove, 218 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
EDHS_04644-27.tif View from back fence on to Eucalyptus Road. Pitt Street Reserve to the right, 18 Pitt Street, Eltham, c.1985
