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Towards the northern end of King Street lay the Flagstaff Gardens, whilst the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium and Crown Casino are at its southern tip. King Street becomes Kings Way south of Flinders Street. The street was part of National Routes 1 and 79 until the city bypass road linking the Monash Freeway with the West Gate Freeway was completed ...
West Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km (1.2 mi) north-west of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Melbourne local government area. West Melbourne recorded a population of 8,025 at the 2021 census. [1]
1853 – establishment of the Melbourne cemetery; 1857 – cutting excavated to ease the gradient of King Street. This created the bluestone retaining wall of the high bank along the western boundary. 1857–1863 – A Magnetic Observatory and Weather Station was established by Georg von Neumayer on the hilltop.
St James Old Cathedral, an Anglican church, is the oldest church in Melbourne, Australia, albeit not on its original site. It is one of the relatively few buildings in the central city which predate the Victorian gold rush of 1851. [1] The building was dismantled and relocated in 1914 to a corner site of King Street and Batman Street in West ...
The King Street Bridge was designed in 1959 by Hardcastle & Richards, consulting engineers for Utah Australia, on behalf of the Country Roads Board, and constructed over the next two years. [ 4 ] [ 10 ] The substructure of the main bridge was completed in November 1959, and the east and west lanes of the low-level bridge over the Yarra were ...
1913: Commercial Travellers Association Hotel and offices, Flinders Street 1913: Melbourne Steamship Company, 27-31 King Street [18] 1914: The Canterbury (apartments), Canterbury Road, St Kilda (another floor was added in 1919) 1914: Denyers Building, 264 Swanston Street 1914: Colosseum Department Store, Chapel Street, Prahran
– re-aligned through western Melbourne from Geelong and Ballarat Roads, Smithfield and Racecourse Roads, Flemington Road, Harker and Curzon Streets, King Street (replaced by ) to West Gate Freeway, Roger and Lorimer and Claredon Streets when the West Gate Bridge opened in 1978
Stokes and Sons, Albert Street, Brunswick, 1936 (demolished) Gair Manufacturing Co., 461 King Street, West Melbourne, 1936 [2] Bank of New South Wales, 856 Sydney Road, Moreland, 1936; High Royd flats, 36 Robe Street, St Kilda; Brunswick Fire Station, 24 Blyth Street, Brunswick, 1937; Ansett Aircraft Hangar, Essendon Airport, 1937 [2]