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Robyn Annear, Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne, Black Inc, 2005 Robyn Annear, A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne, Black Inc, 2005 Kim Dovey, Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront, UNSW Press, 2005
All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.
But not, it seems, as gay as those who knock them down. After all, Robyn Annear's marvellous new book, A City Lost & Found, tells us that Whelan the Wrecker's demolition crew was known as The Happy Gang. And, throughout most of the twentieth century, they wielded their hammers with merry abandon, reducing many of Melbourne's finest buildings to rubble and lumber. Here they are crashing through Bilking Square (a disreputable location named after...
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