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It occupied a large site on Bourke Street in central Melbourne, formerly occupied by the grand Eastern Market, and was the premier hotel in the city into the early 1980s. The Southern Cross was the preferred hotel for celebrities in this period, most famously The Beatles in 1964, and the ballroom was the preferred location for locally and ...
The Melbourne Tattersall's Club was a licensed club of 2240 members with rooms in Royal Lane, off Bourke Street about 30 yards (27 m) from the corner. It had a large room 36 by 45 feet (11 m × 14 m) downstairs, furnished with tables, Vienna chairs and so on, also several smaller rooms and upstairs a billiard room with two tables, smoking room, reading room and members' accommodation.
During the Marvellous Melbourne era, Bourke Street was the location of many of the city's theatres and cinemas. Today it continues as a major retail shopping precinct with the Bourke Street Mall running between Elizabeth and Swanston Streets, numerous offices to the west end and restaurants to the east. [1]
In order to provide power for a new system of electric street lights, the City of Melbourne built a coal fired power station on the corner of Spencer Street and Little Bourke Street, opening in 1894. [157] It was expanded and machinery upgraded many times, adding and altering buildings in 1907–8, and in the 1920s.
A view of the Excelsior Hotel on Bourke Street in 1861. The plot of land on 20-30 Bourke Street was occupied from the late 1850s Excelsior Hotel.The association between hotels and theatres at the time was close, and the hotel incorporated a hall (known as the Queen's Hall) used for vaudeville performances and other entertainment including boxing and wrestling.
The Windsor pre-dates other notable grand hotels including The Waldorf Astoria in New York, the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, the Ritz in Paris and the Savoy in London. [1] The Windsor is situated on Bourke Hill in the Parliament Precinct on Spring Street, and is a Melbourne landmark of high Victorian architecture.