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Melbourne’s hidden history: travel back in time through lost streetscapes.
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Shutter City
fragments of a forgotten melbourne
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160 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2025
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Summary
Shutter City: Melbourne Through a Time-Lapse Lens
Shutter City presents Melbourne street views spanning the bustling decades of the 1850s to 1870s, between the gold rushes and Marvellous Melbourne. Robyn Annear peers into every shadowy corner to reveal postcard streetscapes as miraculous time-capsules, packed with hidden-in-plain-sight historical detail. Her discoveries – she calls them ‘sparks’ – illuminate and decode each of Shutter City’s street views.
Among the sightings…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522881776 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522881777 |
| Author: | Robyn Annear |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 250mm x 250mm |
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About The Author
Robyn Annear
Robyn Annear has been ransacking Melbourne’s history for thirty years. Her books include Bearbrass, A City Lost & Found (Whelan the Wrecker’s Melbourne) and Adrift in Melbourne.
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