Old Melbourne

1910s4 photos

Bourke Street, Melbourne's Shopping Centre, c. 1918c. 1918Bourke St, Melbourne, 8.0 am Sunday [near the cnr Bourke and Spring Streets], 19181918View of Bourke Street, looking across Elizabeth St, 19181918View of Elizabeth Street, looking across Bourke Street, 19181918

1920s31 photos

Melbourne 1920, showing Bourke Street1920[Clarke Buildings, Bourke Street, Melbourne, Vic.], 19201920Bourke Street, Melbourne, looking east from above Elizabeth Street, 1920–211920–21HOTEL RUBIRA, 305 Bourke Street, Melbourne, c. 1920c. 1920Illuminations in Melbourne during Royal Visit of Edward, Prince of Wales, 19201920Bourke Street, looking east, c. 1920c. 1920Bourke Street, looking west, c. 1920c. 1920Bourke Street, Melbourne, looking east from Queen Street, 1910–301910–30Elizabeth Street looking south from Bourke Street, 1920–251920–25Bourke Street, Melbourne, showing Buckley & Nunn's and Post Office clock, 1913–311913–31Bourke Street, Melbourne, showing Buckley & Nunn's and Post Office clock, 1913–311913–31Bourke Street, Melbourne, with Post office tower in foreground, 1913–311913–31283-291 Bourke St., (south side) between Swanston Street and Union Lane, 1921–271921–27Bourke Street looking east, 1920s1920s[Bourke Street, Melbourne, looking east from Queen Street], 1910–381910–38Night view of Bourke Street pedestrians trams lights and neon Coles sign Store No. 12, 1920s1920sBourke Street, Melbourne, 1920–301920–30Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1920–301920–30Photograph of verso of carte-de visite from Paterson's New Portrait Rooms, 8 Bourke Street East, Melbourne, 1900–501900–50Bourke Street, Melbourne, c. 1925c. 1925Exterior first city store Deva House Coles Stores 327-329 Bourke Street, 1924–281924–28Britannia Theatre, Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1914–411914–41Home of Sir Redmond Barry, Bourke St., about to be demolished, 1924–301924–30Synagogue, Bourke St. [Melbourne], 1914–411914–41Bourke Street looking south, showing the London Stores, Coles and Myer, 1927–281927–28Elizabeth and Lonsdale Streets corner, showing the Kalizoic in Elizabeth Street between Lonsdale and Little Bourke Street, 1927–281927–28Street scene looking north at Watt's Orient Hotel (260 Bourke Street) on the corner of Bourke and Swanston Streets (east side), 19281928Cole's Book Arcade this building demolished 1929 to build first section of Bourke Street Store No. 12, 1928–291928–29Bourke Street Melbourne Coles staff of about 95 men and women taken in Sugden Place outside Old Coles Book Arcade Store No. 12, 19281928Elevated view along Bourke Street showing construction site beside Coles Variety Store in Deva House Melbourne Store No. 4, 1924–341924–34London Bank of Australia and Hill of Content Bookshop, Bourke Street, 19291929

1930s25 photos

Interior tables of merchandise on display in Bourke Street Store No. 12, 19301930Elevated view looking east along Bourke Street towards Coles Variety Store in Deva House Melbourne Store No. 4, 19301930Interior snack bar and stairs Bourke Street Store No. 12, 19301930Interior tables of merchandise on display in Bourke Street Store No. 12, 19301930Equity Trustees Chambers 472-478, Bourke Street Melbourne. JKauffmann, 19311931Bourke Street Coles staff of about 150 men and women possibly taken on opening day March 1930 Store No. 12, 1930–321930–32Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1930–351930–35Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1930–351930–35[Looking along Bourke Street, Melbourne, towards Parliament House], 19321932Looking east towards huge crowd in Bourke Street in front of Coles Variety Store in Deva House Melbourne Store No. 4, 1930–351930–35[View of Film House and other buildings on Bourke Street, Melbourne], 1930s1930sBourke Street, Melbourne, from just below Elizabeth Street, looking east towards Parliament House, c. 1934c. 1934Bourke Street looking east from the corner of Elizabeth Street, 1934–351934–35Bourke Street from the East, 19341934Melbourne in the late 1930s. Looking south down Queen Street from Bourke Street1930sMayfair Theatre and old Waxworks, Bourke St, 19341934Kong Meng's Building, corner of Little Bourke Street and Celestial Avenue, 19341934Lever's Bull & Mouth Hotel and adjacent multi-story Coles store in Bourke Street Melbourne, 1930s1930sLittle Collins Street showing rear of 299 Bourke Street first stage eight storey building Coles Store No. 12, 1930–381930–38Bourke Street looking east from McKillop Street, showing the Post Office festooned with lights, McEwans illuminated as well as the decorative Centenary street poles illuminated, 1934–351934–35Empire Theatre, 153 Bourke Street, 19351935Myer, Bourke Street, Melbourne, c. 1936c. 1936Myer, Bourke Street, Melbourne, c. 1936c. 1936Myer, Bourke Street, Melbourne, c. 1936c. 1936Myer, Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1936?1936?

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741 historic photos of Bourke Street, Melbourne, taken between 1850 and 1989, gathered from across the suburbs by what their catalogue titles say. They span 13 decades, with the most from the 1940s (214). All are from State Library Victoria; each photo links to its original record.