Citation report - Victoria's Planning Schemes

complex which has buildings of a similar era.
History
This house was built for John Scullin, engine driver, in 1919, as a 6 room weatherboard dwelling, housing 10
people. Scullin lived there until the 1930s, followed by Clara Scullin. The number of persons living at the
house had nearly halved in 1930 to 6 { RB}.
The name Scullin is well known in the form of James Scullin the famous politician whose father was John but
the latter lived at Trawalla while James moved from there to Richmond and later to Hawthorn { ADB}. This
John Scullin however was a Victorian Railways employee with the Rolling Stock branch. He was born in 1867
and at the age of 14 joined the railways. In 1914 he was paid 13/6d per week { VGG}. John Scullin died at
Port Melbourne in 1933, the son of John and Ann (nee Logan) { Macbeth}.
Ironically John had commissioned the construction of this house in the year of the national coal strike which
cast most railways employees out of a job. The locomotive sheds at port Melbourne were closed and
unemployment relief committee was set up to cope with the huge unemployment. It was also the year of the
influenza epidemic and disastrous flooding. The nearby school was set up as a temporary hospital { Uren:
213}. Nevertheless Port Melbourne was by then the transport hub of Melbourne at that time with the
Sandridge piers and railway terminus, as well as upgrading of both tramway and rail services in this era.
Thematic Context
Making suburbs
Recommendations
G Butler, Port Phillip Heritage Review, Version 3, 2001
recommended inclusions:
Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme
References
VPRO Pt Melbourne Municipal Rate Book (RB) VPRS 586/P;
Macbeth `Death Index Victoria 1921-1985';
Serle (ed) `Australian Dictionary of Biography' (ADB) V11: 553
Uren & Turnbull, 1983, `A History of Port Melbourne' MUP: no index entry;
`Victorian Government Gazette' (VGG) 4/8/1914: 3414