more dryburgh st - 1860s-70s

You don't think much, or I don't anyway, about how hard it must have been for people to get in touch with each other if they fell a bit out of touch in the time before the telephone, literacy, street numbers, etc. Also it was a lot easier for people to disappear from other people's lives. This is from the Age, 12 November 1861. I wonder where Duntiblae Cottage is and whether it still stands. I also wonder whether Mrs Stone had gone back to Adelaide from England, found Fred had left for Melbourne, and went there hoping to reestablish contact. She had enough money to place this ad ten times in the paper in the first half of November. 

The other ads also no doubt have rich and amazeballs stories to tell. Here's one of mild interest from the Age 17 June 1862, p.2 :

This is Arden St in the Sands and McDougall for 1860. You're not going to get much information except confusing information, because Dryburgh street is not actually listed in there, but it appears frequently as a cross-street, and there's Alexander Grant, living near it but not in it. 

Everything was happening in Dryburgh St in 1862. Not only was Alexander Grant (sorry, Alexander Grant Esq) moving out, but there was a prosecution for illegal operation of a still, viz:

There's so much great detail in this story (from the Age 7 August 1862 p. 6). I don't know where Cambria Terrace (presumably a row or a couple of houses) was though. 

The Sands and McDougall for 1870 only details Dryburgh from Victoria St to Arden St, which leads me to believe, that was its extent then. A few of the houses have street numbers but by no means all. 

Flash forward to 1879 and now we're using street numbers pretty extensively, which is a relief, though of course there's no guarantee that the numbers are the same now as they were 150 years ago. 

Age 24 May 1879 p. 1

Whatever 13 Dryburgh was, the site is now combined into a few occupied by large modern apartments. 

Age 23 January 1880 p. 1

There's quite a bit of activity in the Dryburgh area at this time. A lot of places to let, for instance. Judging by the dates on houses, the 1880s was when Dryburgh really came into its own, was completely built out. I would say it was never an entirely respectable street (well, maybe the Royal Park end was) but it was solid. I think I will return to this topic later, if you don't mind.