scott st for gazettal

So I am writing a new lecture - half of one, really - to inform my students about the purpose and value of their first piece of assessment, which is about the house where they grew up. To this end I am doing a little bit of research about where I grew up, which I know sounds egotistical but I'm trying hard to make sure it's not. 

I got the gazzettal (whatever the word is)* of the street where I 'grew up' (or at least lived between 1973-1983). It was created in 1939 which is late for East Hawthorn (all the other streets were basically late 19th century I think, some even older) but it seems the land was just vacant all that time. The house where we lived, 1 Scott St, was apparently not built until 1960, or at least that's the first date for it in the rate book. 

That house, I have probably told you previously, is no longer there - it was built 1960, apparently, remodelled extensively in about 1978-9, demolished comprehensively in I think 1988. My parents bought the site for $20 000 in 1973 and I don't know how much they sold it for but I do know that the most recent sale of the land and the building(s?) on it now fetched $2.9 million. The moral of this story is, be born just before or early in the Second World War and be able to buy a house and if you didn't do that it's your own fault! 
 

*I think that is the word, but spellcheck doesn't know it