Category: The Melbourne Files

From upmarket apartments, to a low budget boarding house, and back again: this is the story of The Gatwick Hotel.

The Bendigo Street Studio has a long history: it was a piano maker’s, a Heinz factory, and the most famous TV location in Australian history. 

Bayside Williamstown is one of Melbourne’s oldest suburbs. Until the 1940s, it was home to one of the city’s most popular racetracks.

In November 1986, the Turkish embassy in Melbourne was bombed. This is the Toorak Terrorist Attack.

If you think skiing in Victoria you think: Mt Hotham, Mt Buller, Bright. But before those, Victoria’s most popular ski resort could be found on Mt Donna Buang, near Warburton.

Yarra Bend Asylum was Melbourne’s first, and biggest, mental hospital.  The grounds are now a public park, but traces still remain.

Melbourne is a city of laneways and many of these have exotic, and unusual, titles. Here are Melbourne’s most unusual laneway names. 

Melbourne Central is one of Melbourne’s most well known landmarks. But before Melbourne Central, that part of the city looked very different.

Melbourne has a lot of public artworks, some of which are quite exotic. Here is a quick guide to Melbourne’s strangest public art. 

In the Victorian State election in 1985, something straight out of a bad Hollywood movie went down. A tied election, decided by a lucky dip.