To walk around Collingwood, more than perhaps any other suburb, is to be made aware of change.
Changes in society, architecture, industry. Changes in where we live, what we wear, what we drink.
There used to be dozens of factories here. Boot and shoe manufacturers. Wool carders, spinners and scourers. They’ve gone, to be replaced by fashion wholesalers selling imported threads.
The massive Foy and Gibson buildings on Oxford Street are home to apartments and coffee houses, rare and fine wine merchants.
Spaces get reinvented, sometimes imaginatively. Continue reading