A Middle-Class Suburban Ideal: 49 Warley Road, Malvern East - a History

Abstract

This book tells the history of the settlement of Malvern East land and the land the house was built on. It identifies the first purchaser of the Crown Allotment in 1913 and the developer of the site who built four houses on the Allotment 38. It tells the story of the owners of 49 Warley Road. It tells the story of the men and women who owned and lived in the house from its construction in 1915-16, of Malvern residents' responses to the first and second world wars, of politicians and Prime Ministers, as well as the coming of the Chadstone Shopping Centre and other local events. It is the history of a house as well as the development of Malvern and Malvern East as the preserve of the middle-cl..