Fitzroy
Grid of Victorian terraces turned bohemian melting pot and cradle of Aboriginal rights activism.
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This guide to Fitzroy in Melbourne starts with a newcomer fresh from a mission, with no address for their cousins, only names, and a local man named Bunta Patten who knew where to send them. It stays on Gertrude Street, at a pub standing since 1853 where Saturday afternoons in the 1940s meant a piano, a guitar and serious talk. It also follows the families who filled the cheap terraces in the 1950s and the services that grew up here in the 1970s. Best heard walking along Gertrude Street.
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