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MELBOURNE FOR THE HARD AT LURK.
words&photosby tim hillier
There were threats of calling Melbourne, Austrailia, Batmania. John Batman was one of the first white settlers in the area, in 1835. Essentially starting European Melbourne, his landownership was discredited and he died of syphilis in 1839. Melbourne was named in 1851 after one of the Queens favourite Prime Ministers.
Boring… What if this town was Batmania? The super hero town. I would be a Batmanian. Sweet. The Bruce Wayne rich industrialist exterior, with the dark night dweller alter ego. The hidden secrets. Trying to keep the super hero under wraps, its secret identity unknown to the ill-informed. And with the high population of bats that litter the sky at dusk, it would be the perfect name for this town…
