1888c Bourke Street Melbourne Royal Mint Bourke Street runs diagonally from

Bourke Street runs diagonally from upper left to lower right

A patriotic poster from 1915

with the old-fashioned paddle-wheels being replaced by more modern feathering floats which greatly increased her towing capacity

Swanston Street actually stops at Flinders Street

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1888c Bourke Street Melbourne Royal Mint Bourke Street runs diagonally fromA photograph from around 1888 looking west along Bourke Street. This section of Bourke Street is between Swanston and Russell Streets, on the north side. The photo was taken at 8: 35 one summer's morning. The main buildings in this image are of Parer's Crystal Caf (103) and the Melbourne Coffee Palace (89). In between those buildings at 101 is the Waxworks. Parer's Crystal Caf Hotel was built in 1886 at a cost of 60,000 by three brothers from