Hundreds form human chain to help Melbourne’s oldest bookshop relocate after more than a century

Booklovers form a human chain to help Melbourne’s Hill of Content bookstore move from its old home on Bourke Street to its new location on the same street on Thursday morning. Photograph: Bertin Huynh/The Guardian

On the street, in a huge line, undeterred by rain, they gathered to pass books.

Bibliophiles, builders from nearby construction sites, kids with their parents, all stood for hundreds of metres along Bourke Street in Melbourne’s CBD on Thursday morning in a human chain.