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A Squizzy with Barry Dickins
Playwright, artist and poet Barry Dickins’ will recount his stories of the notorious 1920s Fitzroy gangster Squizzy Taylor at Old Treasury Building on Sunday 7 August. Squizzy gained notoriety in 1920s Melbourne for race fixing, standover tactics and bootlegging, and for his flashy style of dress. He was linked to several high-profile murders. It was [...]
State Bank of Victoria ephemera now showing at Old Treasury Building
Revisit the good old days of school banking, when you took your 50 cent coin tied in a hanky and your well-thumbed passbook into the classroom every Monday, finally amassing a huge sum by the end of high school. Hopefully you didn’t spend it all at once, but even if you did, enjoy some nostalgia [...]
