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Melbourne History Talk: Ghost signs of Melbourne

5 Mar

What can a fading ad on a brick wall reveal about a city? Quite a lot.

6pm to 7pm

old melbourne sign 'newman's have removed'
cost

Free, bookings essential

phone

1800 695 427

address

narrm ngarrgu Library
141 Therry Street 
Melbourne VIC 3000

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In this talk, author and historian Sean Reynolds takes audiences on a journey through the ghost signs of Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid - those old, weathered commercial advertisements that still cling to the sides of buildings. These signs are more than nostalgic curiosities: they are fragments of social memory.

Sean Reynolds is a Melbourne-based author, historian, and creator of Melbourne Ghost Signs. His work blends archival research with storytelling to uncover the hidden lives behind the city’s fading painted advertisements.

Bookings open on Thursday 5 February.

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The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we govern, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past and present. 

 

We acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.

We accept the invitation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart and are committed to walking together to build a better future.