1821info14c: Caleb Crompton - Updated 08 March 2024

Left: 94 Wellington Street, St Kilda East Author: November 2015

Right: 290 New Street, Brighton Author: November 2015

Left: 11 Newbay Crescent, Brighton Author: November 2015

Right: The redeveloped site of 2a Middle Crescent Author: November 2015

Left: 8/87 Seymore Road, White Lodge sheltered accommodation in November 2015 - author

Map of offices in 433 Collins Street, Melbourne - 47kB gif

Above: Sale and Keage's offices were at 430 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, located at the red dot

Hoverbox Photo Gallery - 430 Little Collins Street, Melbourne - Author: November 2015
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The front door of Normanby Chambers
Normanby Chambers looking from Bank Place
Normanby Chambers looking towards Queen Street
Normanby Chambers looking towards William Street

Right: 59-61 Mason Street NEWPORT, Hobsons Bay City

The present brick church was constructed in 1926-27. Designed by architects Sale & Keage, the foundation stone was laid by the Archbishop of Melbourne, the Most Reverend Harrington Clare Lees DD, on 4 December 1926.

Source: Victorian Heritage Database

In 2006 Hobsons Bay Heritage Study describe it as 'austere red brick modern Gothic style building' ... ' is of local historic, social and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Church, Mason Street, Newport designed by Sale and Keage - 157kB jpg

The building was constructed in 1911 and then modernised with the construction of an extension on the street front, giving the building a new classical revival facade. It was designed by the architectural firm Sale and Keage in the first half of the 1920s.

Left: Praham Tadesmens Club, 258-262 High Street Windsor front view

Right: Praham Tadesmens Club side view

Left: 1928-29 Commonwealth Club, Glennie Road, Oakleigh; architect L. (sic) Sale (Sale and Keage), builder H.P. Brady, cost approx $13,000-$14,000.


	An advertisement from page 4 of The Argus showing, perhaps Fred SALE's London ARIBA qualification.

MOTORING TRAGEDIES.
Car Falls Down Embankment.
CITY ARCHITECT KILLED. SYDNEY-ROAD DEATH TRAP.
A viaduct spanning the railway line at Royal-Parade, Parkville, which has proved a dangerous trap for motorists during the past few months was the scene of a shocking motor fatality at l.55 a.m. yesterday. A double-seater Dodge motor car driven by Mr. John Samuel Keage, of Union-street, Kew, was travelling from the city towards Brunswick at a speed of about 33 miles an hour. The driver who was the sole occupant of the car, failed to notice the white picket fence running along the side of the railway line, and crashing into it with terrific force his car hurtled down the embankment and struck the rails a distance of 40 feet below. The machine fell on the hood, with the four wheels spinning in the air, and the un-fortunate motorist was pinned beneath the wreckage. His death must have been instantaneous. Mr. Keage's head was pressed by the heavy weight of the hood against the electric motor horn, with the result that the tooting disturbed the early- morning quiet ness of the neighborhood. (sic) Mrs. John Edward Lyons, wife of music warehouse-man of Bourke-street, who lives on the other side of the railway line, heard the crash of the impact between the car and the fence, and also the loud noise of the horn. Realising that a serious motor accident had occurred she awakened her husband, and they both proceeded to the railway bridge. Peering over the rails they discerned in the darkness the faint outline of a wrecked car lying on the railway line. The horn was creating an incessant din. Mr. Lyons thought that the motorist was buried beneath the wreckage, and was pressing, the horn in order to bring some of the residents to the scene of the accident.

Sliding down the steep, embankment in his pyjamas. and cutting himself against the jagged stones, he reached the railway line, and saw that the motorist was beyond all human aid. His neck had been broken, and he had also received other shocking injuries to the body. In the meantime Mrs. Lyons had run back to the house and telegraphed the Royal Park police and the ambulance depot. An ambulance quickly arrived on the scene, and the motorist was taken to Melbourne Hospital. Constable M'lntosh of Brunswick, and Constable Malone, of Royal Park, together with Senior Constable Cornish, of the night patrol car, were summoned, and they communicated with the railway authorities. A wreckage train equipped with a crane, and several men arrived and after some little difficulty removed the car, which was splintered to match-wood. It was taken to the Royal Park | railway station pending removal to Russell street. Constable Malone is preparing a report of the fatality for the Coroner (Mr. D. Berriman). Senior Constable outline of a wrecked car lying on the railway line. The horn was creating an incessant din. Mr. Lyons thought that the motorist was buried beneath the wreckage, and was pressing, the horn in order to bring some of the residents to the scene of the accident. Sliding down the steep, embankment in his pyjamas and cutting himself against the jagged stones, he reached the railway line, and saw that the motorist was beyond all human aid. His neck had been broken, and he had also received other shocking injuries to the body. In the meantime Mrs. Lyons had run back to the house and telegraphed the Royal Park police and the ambulance depot. An ambulance quickly arrived on the scene, and the motorist was taken to Melbourne Hospital. Constable M'lntosh of Brunswick, and Constable

Malone, of Royal Park, together with Senior Constable Cornish, of the night patrol car, were summoned, and they communicated with the railway authorities. A wreckage train equipped with a crane, and several men arrived and after some little difficulty removed the car, which was splintered to match-wood. It was taken to the Royal Park railway station pending removal to Russell street. Constable Malone is preparing a report of the fatality for the Coroner (Mr. D. Berriman). Senior Constable Cornish, of the night patrol car, were summoned, and they communicated with the railway authorities. A wreckage train equipped with a crane, and several men arrived and after some little difficulty removed the car, which was splintered to match-wood. It was taken to the Royal Park railway station pending removal to Russell street. Constable Malone is preparing a report of the fatality for the Coroner (Mr. D. Berriman). Senior Constable Cornish made inquiries, and ascertained that deceased was a single man, aged 35, and was a member of the firm of Keage and Sale. architects of 430 Little Collins street city. Mr. Sale was communicated with, and he said that he had loaned the car to his partner for the night. As Mr. Keage lived in Union street, Kew, he was a loss to understand why he had been travelling along Sydney Road at such an early hour in the morning. Five minutes before the accident a constable attached to the Royal Park railway station saw a motor car which he identified as that driven by Mr. Keage travelling in the direction of the viaduct at a speed approaching 35 miles an hour. Tyre marks near the bridge indicate that the motorist saw his fatal mistake late, and attempted to swerve his machine clear from the embankment onto the main track.

Constable Malone, in describing the scene of the accident said;- The motor road at this point leads directly to the fence, and to cross the railway bridge it is necessary to make a very sharp turn to the right around a rockery, and then to the left over the bridge It is a particularly d dangerous spot The nearest light on the south side 130 yards, from the bridge.

On 11 November 1924 the Geelong Advertiser reported the 'Coroner's forcible remarks: "The attention of the authorities concerned should be drawn to the need for better lighting facilities, also to the need for extension of the railway bridge to the full width of the motor road where this accident happened." These remarks were made by tbe City Coroner (Mr. D. Berrman) to-day at the conclusion of the inquest into the death of John Samuel Keage. Alexander Burnett Keage, father of the deceased, gave evidence to the inquest that his son was considered to be a very cautious driver, and was of a temperate habits. A finding of accidental death was recorded.

Right: Samuel Keage

Hoverbox Photo Gallery - The possible scene of the accident (now 527 Royal Parade) showing the disused Inner Circle railway track now the Inner Circle Rail Trail
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1. The cutting looking west from Royal Parade
2. Inner Circle Rail Trail

3. Showing the steep sides were almost a vertical drop

Right: The possible car involved in Keage's death: a 3½ litre 1923 Dodge, which suggests Sale bought the car from new. It is a right-hand drive, for the Australian market, is a 'double-seater' having seats and space for back-seat passengers and a soft top 'hood'/canopy - using the English/Australian use of the word rather than the American term for bonnet. The purchase price is unknown. In 1925 the top of the range four seater tourer cost £385 in the UK.

Right: 1924 drawings for EP Printing and Publishing Company, 221 Pelham Street, Carlton

is described as 'a double storey building with load bearing red brick walls and concrete slab floor supported internally by concrete columns. A note on the drawings reads 'Concrete columns and beams to be designed for two future additional stories'. Both floors were designed to be single open plan spaces apart from stairwells at the western and eastern ends of the Pelham Street frontage and a first floor lavatory adjacent to the east stairwell.'

Drawings for EP Printing and Publishing Company - 26kB jpg

Left: The new portico for St Kilda Town Hall, Brighton Road (1925) is described as 'an uncommon and important feature, whilst the associated foyer is of note' (City of Port Phillip Heritage Review - Citation 68

The Shrine is Melbourne's war memorial, located on St Kilda Road. It was built to honour the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I. The Shrine went through a prolonged process of development, which began in 1918. Two committees were formed, the second of which ran a competition for the memorial's design. The winner, architects Phillip Hudson and James Wardrop, was announced in 1922. The foundation stone was laid on 11 November 1927 and work was finally completed in September 1934.

Right: Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance

Melbourne Shrine of rememberance - 37kB jpg

'My lovely Dad was gassed twice during the war so developed TB. This does not show on his war record as he was busy seeing that his men reported in sick, but didn't report in himself. My mother told me this. She was English, born at Liphook, and they met after the war when he was finishing his degree in Architecture in London. Her name was Irene James, and she came to Australia to marry Dad when he had established his own practice and could afford her fare. His cough was apparent by this time, and when he died it was difficult to prove that war was the cause of his illness, but some well known and respected friends of his convinced the authorities that it was so, and my Mum was able to get the pension. This was 1937 during the depression, so getting the pension was vital as Dad had been bedridden for a long time, unable to keep his practice going.'

Source: Claire TIMLOCK, his daughter, August 2009
Right: Captain Frederick John Crompton SALE, after the war

Right: Frederick SALE's medal cluster: Military Cross with Bar, Military Cross with Bar, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

For several months, during Fred's final illness, the mateship of the trenches prevailed. Jim Dafter (recorded as Daften in the unit history 'The Red and Black Diamond') looked after him and the family by shaving the sick man and doing odd-jobs around the house.

Fred's death was announced in The Argus on Saturday 31 July 1937 at Mount Macedon to the northwest of Melbourne (Through Gisborne, on the M79 highway. Ryan Parade is a tree sheltered cul-de-sac.)

A private cremation followed.