Tourist attraction
Brighton Bathing Boxes
Row of ninety-plus rainbow-painted Victorian-era beach huts, privately owned and fiercely protected on a sandy shoreline.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Brighton Bathing Boxes opens with a small unpowered shed on Dendy Street Beach in Melbourne that sold for four hundred fifty thousand dollars in late 2023, then rewinds to the 1860s and the strict Victorian-era modesty rules that made these one-family changing boxes necessary. It follows the boom that came with the tram's arrival in 1906, the Depression-era decline that left the boxes in ruin, and the council's 1934 decision to gather the survivors at Dendy Street. Walk the row and see how differently each owner has painted their door.
This audio guide was created using AI.