#Footscray

Benjamin Millar

In brutal news... the former Footscray Psychiatric Centre has just been placed on the Victorian Heritage Register. My story from last year about the campaign for the listing, spearheaded by

Bar crawl in #Footscray?Here they are, heading east along #Barkly/#Hopkins from #Geelong Rd.

I’m going to write a People’s History of Footscray just so I can have the pleasure of banning MP Tim Watts from attending the launch would people be interested in

two more weeks of iso and I’m going to start posting shit like “ds9 characters as interesting rocks I saw on my government permitted walk: a thread!” DS9 characters as

Many of Footscray’s most interesting buildings were designed in the 20s and 30s by Jewish architect Joseph Plottel. the history of these buildings gives us a fascinating window into local

in 1959 there was a huge brawl (sounds like it was between Anglo Australians and European migrants? unclear) at a rock n’ roll club in Footscray and it started a

AusRailHistorian

Good evening stay-at-homes. Today's #virtualrailfanning journey comes from Footscray's Bunbury Street Tunnel in Melbourne in March 2006. 1/ Here, triple NR class locos head over the Maribyrnong River bridge toward

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This test thread is cooler than you.A thread http://pento.jurassic.tube/2020/10/06/this-test-thread-is-cooler-than-you/ Avalon is so not melb NGV culture fix, brunswick st hippy hu tong dumplings south of the river laksa king footscray

It’s official, palshttps://twitter.com/BenjaminMillar/status/1263759518082596871 I’m actually a bit ambivalent about this because it doesn’t seem like something former patients are happy about! sorry the reappraisal of brutalist archi

Annie Cresswick

Copied from a Facebook friend. ARE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE YET?Thread In 6 weeks in Victoria there's been a 33% increase in hospital self harm presentations, in childrenThere are children slitting their

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It’s great to be here.A thread http://pento.jurassic.tube/2020/10/07/its-great-to-be-here/ Fed square old melbourne gaol, hipsters chaddie graffiti food bloggers dame edna, chopper read brown alley trams kylie minogue swanston, lions ba

Unemployed Workers Movement, Newtown, 1931, attempting to stop an eviction Issy Wyner (1916-2008), a member of the Unemployed Workers Movement https://oralhistories.moadoph.gov.au/issy-wyner-1916-2008 "The Brunswick branch of the UWM w