Visions of a Village : Canterbury shops and shopping 1880s – 1990s

AUSTRALIANA Architecture

• vi, 73 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 x 26 cm. Signed by Author. First Edition. Light corner crease to cover. #311223

• Stores, Retail — Victoria — Canterbury — History
• Canterbury (Vic.) — History 
• The main shopping area in Canterbury is around the railway station and includes shops in Canterbury Road, as well as Maling Road. Maling Road is a popular shopping strip in Canterbury, Victoria, Australia. It contains over fifty Edwardian-style shops in a pseudo-village setting. Its location was chosen due to its proximity to Canterbury railway station.
• The present-day shopping strip has its roots in the construction of the railway line at Canterbury railway station in 1882.^[2] Although most buildings in the area near the intersection with Canterbury Road date from the early 1900s, some were constructed before this time.^[3]

  In the 1970s after the grade separation of the railway line across Canterbury Road, there were proposals to demolish large parts of the shopping centre and construct a supermarket. This was met with resistance from the local community and the project successfully stopped.^[4] A council proposal to turn part of the street into a pedestrian mall was also scrapped.^[5]