1888c Bourke Street Melbourne Royal Mint Swanston Street actually stops at

Swanston Street actually stops at Flinders Street

prepared and published by a real estate company from that period

Horsedrawn wagons travel down middle of street and churches are on both corners

Mr Paterson was Mayor of Melbourne in 1876-1877 and seemed like the sort of guy that we need around today

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

1888c Bourke Street Melbourne Royal Mint Swanston Street actually stops atA 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