1905c Bourke Street Parliament House so that dates this photograph

so that dates this photograph just at the end of the 19th century

just in front of the Customs House (the building with the double flagpoles)

Over five million bricks were used in its construction

showing the many inner city buildings along with other prominent landmark buildings of Melbourne

to the accompaniment of a chronic grumbling and discontent

1905c Bourke Street Parliament House so that dates this photographA photograph of Bourke Street from the 1905 period. The horse and cart have just crossed Russell Street and are heading east. On the far left of the photo we see the Austral Hotel (181 Bourke Street), and heading down Bourke Street at 185 is the Interstate Outfitting Company (run by Beaconsfield & Co. who also had another store, the Federal Supply Stores, further down Bourke Street), then Francis Longmore & Co. Chemists at 187, then Sheppard's