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The street directory issued in connection with the system allocated a postal district name and number to all streets in the metropolitan area. [ 3 ] The table below shows the district numbers used, the date being 1928 if a post office was open then or earlier. [ 4 ]
Flinders Street is a street in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Running roughly parallel to the Yarra River , Flinders Street forms the southern edge of the Hoddle Grid . It is exactly 1 mi (1.6 km) in length [ a ] and one and a half chains (99 ft; 30 m) in width.
Postcodes were introduced in Australia in 1967 by the Postmaster-General's Department (PMG) to replace earlier postal sorting systems, such as Melbourne's letter and number codes (e.g., N3, E5) and a similar system then used in rural and regional New South Wales.
In Australia, a suburb is a named and bounded locality of a city, with an urban nature, regardless of its location within that city. The term "inner suburbs" refers to the older, denser, urban areas closer to the original colonial centre of the cities and "outer suburbs" refers to the urban areas more remote from the centre of the metropolitan ...
Campbell Arcade is a pedestrian arcade located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The arcade is accessible from Flinders Street station and was built in 1955 to ensure crossing between Flinders Street and Melbourne's main train station was safer. It was completed ahead of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. [1] Campbell Arcade exit on Degraves Street
Outside of Banana Alley on Flinders Street The Banana Alley Vaults are near the Flinders Street station in Melbourne , Australia and extend onto the North Bank of the Yarra River . Built in 1891–92, they were originally known as the Viaduct Buildings, and were built in conjunction with the tracks of the Flinders Street Viaduct that run overhead.
Flinders Street railway station is a major railway station located on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the busiest railway station in Victoria, serving the entire metropolitan rail network , 15 tram routes travelling to and from the city, and V/Line services to Gippsland .
It was located in the four-storey Majestic Buildings, 178 Flinders Street, opposite the eastern end of the Flinders Street railway station. It became the Chelsea Theatre in 1960, became vacant in 1979, was demolished in 1986, and is now a car park.