Like her mother and grandmother, Ruth Bailey née Blackburn was born in Carlton and spent virtually her whole life in two houses barely a kilometre apart. Interviewed in 2010, she recalled the details of a traditional upper working class childhood at 16 Rathdowne Street, a stone's throw from the Exhibition (Carlton) Gardens, and shopping for everyday necessities in a still largely Anglo Lygon Street. Daily visits were paid to the home of her grandmother, across the road from what is today Carlton Primary School. After marriage and the birth of two daughters, it was in this house at 149 Palmerston Street that Ruth spent the rest of her life, living through the upheaval of the Housing Commission's demolition of huge swathes of Carlton just to her north and the building of the high rise flats in Lygon Street. Later she saw the original working class population of these flats gradually replaced by waves of refugees, most recently from Africa, and experienced the gentrification of a suburb once a byword for poor housing and crime.
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...has examined the changing use of the shops and some other buildings in Rathdowne Street, North Carlton, between Princes Street and Park Street, from the early 1870s. This study traces the gradual change from a vibrant shopping strip supplying the everyday needs of people who lived nearby, through the commercial doldrums of the mid 20th century and into the gentrification phase which has resulted in the Rathdowne Street of today. Stories of the lives of some of the shopkeepers are included. The study is organised by street number and a profile of some 150 buildings is provided." -- back cover.
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