These days, you can look out over a valley of curved metal for the best industrial sunset view in Melbourne.
Opinion pieces from local writers exploring their suburb’s cliches and realities and how it has changed in the past 20 years.When I say I live in West Melbourne, people sometimes think I mean “west of Melbourne” and that I’m perhaps embarrassed to say where. But it is indeed an actual suburb, although it’s not traditionally been regarded as a residential neighbourhood.
Eventually, the swamp was drained to make way for the railway line. By the 1920s, while a bustling home to flour millers and other light industry, West Melbourne also housed some of the– Dudley Flats – comprised of shacks cobbled together from rubbish. It remained a homeless camp from the Depression until the 1950s.
But even then, despite its inner-city location West Melbourne has never posed a threat to Fitzroy’s hipness. For more than 60 years from 1851, the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, a huge complex of buildings on a four-hectare site at the western end of Victoria Street, provided relief to “the aged, infirm, disabled or destitute”.
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