Shop

Parent Place or Precinct

25581 Claremont Crescent Commercial Heritage Precinct

Statement of Significance

Considerable Contribution: fine intact example of the shop of the period, and associations with Les Rudrum.

Physical Description

One of a single storey pair of masonry shops with a parapet detailed with pilasters and moulded cornice line above a flat boxed suspended canopy that extends across both shopfronts. The shopfront evidences original intact fabric of a tiled dado and central re-entrant door, with timber framing to the glazed shopfront and entry door.

History

This site was a vacant block into the 1930s. Nos. 129 and 131 are a matching pair constructed in the early to mid-1930s. First occupied by a grocer C. Castledene, by 1940, W. Tofts boot repair business and in 1949, electrician Noel Murphy was at No. 129 and still in business in 1960. Les Rudrum worked at Murphy's Electrical in the 1960s and eventually bought the business. In 2002 it was owned by his son Troy, and Mike Muntz, who did his apprenticeship with Les Rudrum in the 1970s.

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