Melbourne Circle Project |
Melbourne Circle is an account of a series of walks around the suburbs of Melbourne which I took in 2014-2016.
Taken together the walks form a circle around the city. Beginning in Williamstown in the south west I walked in a clockwise direction with very occasional brief detours into the city centre. The walk ended with a trip across the bay back to Williamstown completing the circle.
Nick Gadd
Nick Gadd: Writer and urban explorer Melbourne. Walking the city at melbournecircle.net
Nick Gadd writes essays about Melbourne history literature music and suburban life.
Stories by suburb
This blog describes a series of walks all connecting up into a circuit of Melbourne on foot.
Abbotsford
The real and the fake in Abbotsford
Albert Park
London calling
Ascot Vale
The Temperance Triangle and the six o'clock swill
Avondale Heights
Apocalypse Heights
Balaclava
The diverse charms of St Kilda East (and Balaclava)
Braybrook
Architecture and peanut butter
Brunswick
Wandering Brunswick
Brunswick East
A deco dairy and stories on walls
Carlton
The American architect and the angry donor
Italian films in 1950s Carlton
Carlton North
Modernism and Victoriana
A cuppa in Carlton North
Clifton Hill
The bricks and stones of Clifton Hill
Boots and all
Collingwood
Footy moustaches and electric girdles: it's The Sportsman!
The transformations of Collingwood
Cremorne
The icons of Cremorne
Elwood
The romance of Elwood
Essendon
Mansions and monkeys
Suburban drift on Buckley Street
Fishermans Bend
Completing the circle
Fitzroy
Architectural extremes on Nicholson Street
Three ghostsigns three stories
Fitzroy North
Fitzroy North or North Fitzroy?
Flemington
Functional fancy Flemington
Footscray
A peek inside the Grand Theatre Footscray
So fine a place of entertainment - the lost theatres of Footscray
The Hot Shot pool saloon
Footscray revisited
Kensington
Industrial reminders from Kensington to North Melbourne
Maidstone
Three scenes from Maidstone
Maribyrnong
Explosives on the Maribyrnong
Melbourne CBD
An appointment with Dr King
Middle Park
Designs for living
Moonee Ponds
Fading signs in Moonee Ponds
Newport
Death and resurrection
North Melbourne
A walk along Victoria Street (part one)
A walk along Victoria Street (part two)
Layers of ghosts on Abbotsford Street
Parkville
The strangeness of Royal Park
Elvis and billiards in Melbourne cemetery
Port Melbourne
Whisky on the rocks
From the ocean to the lake
Dream houses past and present
Prahran
Memories of Commercial Road
Turkish baths and oyster saloons: the story of Prahran Arcade
Lost on Chapel Street
Richmond
Squizzy Taylor in Richmond
Wall of champions
Lovell's hairdressers to Loulou's relaxology
The Australian Mont De Piete
Tales from Richmond Hill
Ripponlea
The Top Shop and the pharmacy
St Kilda
Many-layered St Kilda
Spaghetti coffee and drag: more from St Kilda
St Kilda East
Three women of St Kilda Cemetery
Diverse charms of St Kilda East
South Melbourne
Bank Street stroll
The lost names of Emerald Hill
South Yarra
Hollywood on the Yarra
Schnapps emus and boots
Spotswood
The West Gate Bridge disaster
Sunshine
A flutter on the monkeys
West Footscray
James Flood's exclusive limousines
Slugs and fonts at the Museum of Printing
West Melbourne
Life wasn't meant to be radioactive
Williamstown
Changing spaces in Williamstown
Skin deep
Mr Vowles' underclothing depot
Yarraville
Growing up in the Yarra Coffee Palace
The sinking village
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