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A private tour combining Melbourne's real architecture with genuine Fitzroy crime history.
A private tour for your group only, real Fitzroy crime-history walk, with a genuine declassified crime-scene photo booklet and Squizzy Taylor gangster history.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real content includes Fitzroy's genuine crime history, with a real declassified crime-scene photo booklet and the story of gangster Squizzy Taylor.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point in Melbourne.
Genuine historical documentation.
Genuine documented gangster history.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real Fitzroy crime-history walk, with a genuine declassified crime-scene photo booklet and Squizzy Taylor gangster history. This is a private tour for your group only. Real content includes Fitzroy's genuine crime history, with a real declassified crime-scene photo booklet and the story of gangster Squizzy Taylor.
Squizzy Taylor is as real and well-documented a figure as Melbourne crime history produces. Born Joseph Theodore Leslie Taylor in 1888, he tried his hand first as a jockey on the inner-city pony racing circuit before drifting into armed robbery, illegal liquor and drug sales, race-fixing, and protection rackets, repeatedly appearing in Melbourne newspapers over suspected involvement in a 1919 gang war and a 1923 robbery in which a bank manager was murdered.
His death on 27 October 1927 is itself a documented piece of Melbourne street history, not folklore. Taylor and associates spent the evening searching Carlton's pubs for rival gangster John 'Snowy' Cutmore, eventually tracking him to a house on Barkly Street. A gunfight broke out in Cutmore's bedroom; Cutmore was shot dead, his mother was wounded running in after hearing the shots, and Taylor himself was hit and died later that night at St Vincent's Hospital in Fitzroy.
Set against that history, Fitzroy's Victorian terrace-house streetscapes tell a parallel story of money rather than crime. Many of the suburb's grandest terraces, like Marion Terrace, date specifically to the speculative property boom of the 1880s — the same 'Marvellous Melbourne' era that built the city's ornate arcades and banks — while an even earlier, rarer row of terraces on Brunswick Street dates back to 1856. An 1850 planning decision aimed at reducing fire risk also pushed South Fitzroy toward heavy masonry construction, a legacy still visible in the suburb's streetscapes today.
A tour that puts architecture and crime history side by side is, in effect, reading two different records of the same few streets: one written in brick and stone by property speculators chasing boom-era wealth, the other written in newspaper columns and police files by the gangsters, like Taylor, who worked the same neighbourhood a generation or two later.
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