b'During the 1940s and 50s the partners, lawyers, acccountants, typists and articled clerks of Hedderwick Fookes & Alston worked at Batman House in Melbourne. It was an old-fashioned legal office, crowded with people and packed with files. The lift in the office could not be relied on and accountant George Forsyth regularly turned a handle in his office to deliver people safelyto the ground floor.128'