Bearbrass: Imagining Early MelbourneJust a little way down Collins Street, beside Henry Buck's, is a perpetually dark but sheltered laneway called Equitable Place. Here you'll find a number of places to eat and drink. Settle yourself in the window of one, shut your eyes, and picture this scene of yore In this much loved book, Robyn Annear resurrects the village that was early Melbournefrom the arrival of white settlers in 1835 until the first gold rushes shook the townand brings it to