Villa Alba in Kew is important to the state of Victoria for architectural, historic, social and aesthetic reasons. Its cultural significance results from the unrivalled quality of its late Victorian hand-painted interiors.
Source: Villa Alba website
This bookshop closed in Canterbury in February 2020 and moved to Ringwood and opened there in August 2020.
The pictures of the old location in Canterbury Road, Canterbury show a veritable Alladin's Cave of motoring books. The shelves are piled to the ceiling and overflowing onto the floor.
David, the owner, somehow keeps track of it all.
A customer asks: “Have you got a copy of Motor Magazine Australia August 1988?” “Let me go see says David.” A few minutes later he emerges with a copy. Miraculous.
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Aerial views of Melbourne from Fritsch Holzer Park 2019 . Operations conducted under CASA regulations.
