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Melbourne Circle Project

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

  • 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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