Melbourne Circle is an account of a series of walks around the suburbs of Melbourne by Nick Gadd.
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.
As a reader, I found it to be extremely interesting, broad and includes some of the best ghost signs you will find anywhere.
Nick’s words: it’s a very personal tour, and that’s part of the point. Every suburb, every street, has millions of stories worth telling, of which I’ve only mentioned a handful. Anyone who took a walk like this would easily find many others. It doesn’t take much – just a bit of observation, curiosity and imagination. They are out there, waiting to be uncovered.
Nick Gadd is a Melbourne writer. He is not a Melburnian (although he should be), he writes essays about Melbourne, history, literature, music and suburban life.
Stories by Melbourne Suburb
Abbotsford
Albert Park
Ascot Vale
Avondale Heights
Balaclava
Braybrook
Brunswick
Brunswick East
Carlton
Carlton North
Clifton Hill
Collingwood
Cremorne
Elwood
Essendon
Fishermans Bend
Fitzroy
Fitzroy North
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
Maidstone
Maribyrnong
Melbourne CBD
Middle Park
Moonee Ponds
Newport
North Melbourne
- A walk along Victoria Street (part one)
- A walk along Victoria Street (part two)
- Layers of ghosts on Abbotsford Street
Parkville
Port Melbourne
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
St Kilda
St Kilda East
South Melbourne
South Yarra
Spotswood
Sunshine
West Footscray
West Melbourne
Williamstown
Yarraville