Booklovers form human chain to move Melbourne's oldest bookshop one item at a time

Описание: Around 300 people gathered outside Melbourne's oldest bookshop, Hill of Content, to help it move to its new location just 130 metres down the road.
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The store first opening in 1922 and the three-storey, heritage-listed building it occupied for 103 years was sold for $5.3m last year, with the bookshop’s owners forced to start searching for a new home. Diana Johnson, who owns Hill of Content with her husband, Duncan Johnson, said the human chain would pass 17,000 books up to the new store

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