RICHMOND (STREETS BENEATH OUR FEET)

Streets Beneath Our Feet invites readers to see familiar neighbourhoods anew, revealing buildings, laneways, pubs, bridges and signage as material clues to past lives, labour and pleasure. Written by urban historians Professor Robert Pascoe and Dr Chris McConville, each book guides walkers street by street through local history, drawing on oral histories, newspapers, court records, artworks and novels to animate workers, migrants, larrikins and dreamers. This Richmond volume traces industry, migration and reinvention, from nineteenth-century retreat to Silicon Yarra, showing history alive beneath every step.