1905c Bourke Street Parliament House on the north side

on the north side

"  Grimes' chart clearly showed the existence and location of a major source of fresh water

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

with this section of our past now a walkway at the southern boundary of Federation Square

1905c Bourke Street Parliament House on the north sideA 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