Brunswick
Bohemian inner-city grid of former brickyards and factories turned laneway cafes, street art and live music venues.
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This guide to Brunswick in Melbourne starts with the Hoffman brickworks whistle that called four hundred workers to five nonstop kilns producing forty million bricks a year before the First World War. It traces the suburb's origin to a surveyor's failed 1830s farming subdivision and the one settler, James Simpson, who stuck around only to be driven out by mud. Clay that ruined a farmer went on to build boom-time Melbourne, brick by brick, through the 1880s.
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