Collingwood's walks
Work · Collingwood
Factory Town
Foy & Gibson, shoe factories, breweries — the suburb Marvellous Melbourne ran on.
Marvellous Melbourne needed somewhere to make everything. That place was Collingwood. The Foy & Gibson empire that employed thousands of women. The shoe factories and tanneries along Smith Street. Carlton & United's first brewery. A walk through the brick-and-cobble engine room of a boom city — and the football club the workers carried.
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75
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30 min2.3 hr
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