Guild Street in Richmond – Named after a position in the Anglican church. Guilds were originally associations of craftsmen in particular trades. The term was borrowed by the Anglican Church. A guild tends to be a group of lay persons (often women) within a parish which meet together for social purposes and to maintain the building and its finances. In an area where the Anglican church owned land. First mentioned in The Press in 1910 when land is advertised for sale there. It was then being formed. First appears in street directories in 1914.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Papers Past had the usual birth and death notices. In 1910 there were several ads for the sale of sections in the Church Property subdivision. In 1920 there was a proposed council bylaw to forbid horses, cattle and sheep being driven down this street plus the surrounding streets. The sewers were connected in 1926. In 1962 it was proposed that a Hospice for the Aged to be build. The article in 1963 said that the erection of the modern geriatric hospital was processing nicely. There were several ads for staff for the Churchill Hospice. Later on it was being called Churchill Hospital. Street view from 2007 had a sign outside it saying Churchill Complex.
In 1983 the road was closed at the Stapletons Road end of the street as the wooden bridge over Dudley Creek was unsafe. What was a temporary closure became a permanent closure and there is now just a footbridge there.
The street has only about a dozen houses with some built in 1910 and 1920. Where Churchill Complex used to be there is now social housing for 15 families. It is called Guild Street Housing Community and there was an article about it in 2021 and another article earlier this year. The article states that this housing was built where there was an abandoned Aged Care Village known as Churchill Courts.
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