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Lonsdale Street is a main street and thoroughfare in the Melbourne central business district, Australia. It runs roughly east–west and was laid out in 1837 as one of Melbourne's original boundaries within the Hoddle Grid. The street extends from Spring Street in the east to Spencer Street in the west. Lonsdale Street is home to multiple ...
Emporium Melbourne (or simply Emporium) is a luxury shopping centre on the corner of Lonsdale and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Australia. Occupying the former Lonsdale Street site of Myer's Melbourne store, Emporium opened in 2014 following extensive redevelopment.
Queen Victoria Village in May 2008 QV Melbourne Night view in August 2017. QV Melbourne or just QV, is a precinct in the Melbourne CBD, Victoria, Australia.Covering the city block bounded by Lonsdale, Little Lonsdale, Swanston, and Russell Streets, and located next to the State Library of Victoria, QV comprises a large shopping centre, a central plaza, an underground food court, Melbourne city ...
Hardware Lane. From 1857, the lane was known as Wrights Lane. In 1927 it was renamed Hardware Lane after Hardware House. [2] The lane is on land formerly occupied by Kirk's Horse Bazaar, a horse and livery trading centre built in 1840 by James Bowie Kirk, [1] and the first home of Melbourne's Tattersall's Club, [4] where wagers with the big bookmakers were settled.
Little Lonsdale Street is located in the centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. A part of the Hoddle Grid , it runs roughly east–west. North of Lonsdale Street and south of La Trobe Street , Little Lonsdale Street's eastern end intersects with Spring Street while its western end intersects with Spencer Street .
Fire dancing at the 2009 Lonsdale Street Glendi. The annual Melbourne Antipodes Festival is held on Lonsdale Street over a week in March, and has been held since 1987. The festival is renowned for its Lonsdale Street "Glendi" (Greek for "party") - a weekend-long event that is held to coincide with the Greek National Day (25 March).
Standing 218 m high with 47 floors (43 used as offices), [1] it is the equal 21st tallest in Melbourne as of 2024. [2] It is located at 242 Exhibition Street . It is the world headquarters for Telstra and includes a small retail precinct located on the ground floor towards the Little Lonsdale Street side.
The origin of this grid, marked on the 1837 map, was on the crest of Batman's Hill, striking magnetic north for one mile, to an east west line (now Victoria Street/Parade) marking the northern extent of the government reserve outside the central grid. The rest of metropolitan Melbourne generally follows this grid pattern.