Gertrude Street

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Gertrude Street

Gertrude Street
Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne location map.svg
Red pog.svg
West end
Red pog.svg
East end
Coordinates
General information
Type Street
Length850 m (0.5 mi) [1]
Major junctions
West end Nicholson Street
Carlton, Melbourne
 
East endLangridge Street
Collingwood, Melbourne
Location(s)
Major suburbs Fitzroy

Gertrude Street is a street in the inner northern suburb of Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia.

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History

The Aboriginal Health Service opened on Gertrude Street in 1973, co-founded by Alma Thorpe, her mother Edna Brown, and Bruce McGuinness. [2] [3] It provided a service largely provided by volunteers, [4] operating as a de facto community centre there until 1992. A nearby street behind a factory was a meeting and drinking place, known to the community as Charcoal Lane. [5] The whole area is significant to Aboriginal Australians, many of whom spent time there from the 1960s to the 1980s after leaving missions, Aboriginal reserves, and other government institutions and drifted to the city in a bid to trace their families. [4]

Gentrification of the area, which had started in the 1980s, continued into the 2000s, with Gertrude Street being transformed into a string of fine dining restaurants, art galleries, bookshops and fashion stores. [5]

In 2009 the Aboriginal Health Service building at 136 Gertrude Street was converted into a social enterprise restaurant called Charcoal Lane, [5] [6] run by Mission Australia, which provided training for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people and became well known for its gastronomy. [7] It closed its doors in August 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the historic building was handed back to the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS). [8]

In 2022 Gertrude Street was voted "the second coolest street in the world" by 20,000 people polled by Time Out . [9] Locals also refer to it as "Little Hollywood".

Description

Cafes, bars, eateries, boutiques, antiques shops, bookshops, many social services and a few art galleries (including Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces) are located along the street, which runs along an east–west alignment from Nicholson Street opposite the Royal Exhibition Building in the Carlton Gardens to Smith Street.[ citation needed ]

Film production studios such as Banalarama [10] and KEWL Studios are located on the section between Brunswick Street and Nicholson Street.

The street continues east of Smith Street, under the name of Langridge Street, where it terminates at Nicholson Street, Abbotsford.

Transport

A tram on Gertrude Street in 2020 Tram on Gertrude Street December 2020.jpg
A tram on Gertrude Street in 2020

Melbourne tram route 86 runs along the entire length of Gertrude Street, and it is intersected by route 96 and route 11 at Nicholson Street and Brunswick Street respectively.[ citation needed ]

Landmarks

Landmarks on Gertrude Street include:

Archie Roach's song "Charcoal Lane" mentions Gertrude Street. [14] [15]

See also

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