Throwback 2025: Human chain helps bookshop relocate

Throwback 2025: Hundreds of book lovers formed a human chain to help Melbourne’s oldest bookshop, Hill of Content, move to a new home on a rainy winter day this week.

Community members moved over 16,000 books one by one to help the shop relocate after 103 years, 120m up the road.

Read more: https://ow.ly/cVQn50WoJAA

[Originally posted in July 2025]

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