Can't afford Brunswick? Consider this suburb, you'll like what you see

By Larissa Dubecki
Updated October 7 2017 - 12:18am, first published October 6 2017 - 3:38pm

Little known fact: Pascoe Vale takes its name from colourful early pioneer, businessman, newspaper founder and politician John Pascoe Fawkner. His cognomen - commonly minus the middle part - is littered around Melbourne, including the nearby suburb of Fawkner, but it was in 1839 that he purchased a 316-hectare property in the subdivision of the Coburg district that he called Pascoeville.

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