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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.
Little Bourke Street in the Melbourne central business district runs roughly east–west within the Hoddle Grid.It is a one-way street heading in a westward direction. The street intersects with Spencer Street at its western end and Spring Street at its eastern end. [1]
Chinatown (Chinese: 墨爾本華埠) is an ethnic enclave in the central business district (CBD) of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Centred at the eastern end of Little Bourke Street, it extends between the corners of Swanston and Spring streets, and consists of numerous laneways, alleys and arcades.
Job Warehouse (54-62 Bourke Street) (1848-1849), a double storey building in the Georgian style is the oldest surviving row and typical of the era, though slightly modified. [36] Oddfellows Hotel (1848-1850) is another early example. [37]
The Old High Court Building is a Heritage Council of Victoria [1] and National Heritage List [2] listed building in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne. [3] The High Court of Australia sat at the building from 1928 to 1980, and it was the location of its registry from 1928 to 1973. [4]
Looking south to Caledonian Lane from Drewery Lane. Lonsdale House is the five storey art deco tower on the right, which was demolished in 2010 for Emporium Melbourne. Caledonian Lane is a street in the Melbourne central business district. It is a short, quiet and narrow (4 metre wide) open laneway, running between Little Bourke and Lonsdale ...
Bourke Street runs roughly from east to west and bisects the city centre along its long axis. [3] Bourke Street runs parallel between Little Collins Street to the south and Little Bourke Street to the north. There are two primary stretches of Bourke Street, split by Southern Cross station: the historic city centre and the modern Docklands precinct.
The Flower Drum was established by Gilbert Lau and opened on 26 May 1975. [5] The restaurant originally opened in a converted car park at 103 Little Bourke Street and took its name from the 1961 film, Flower Drum Song, a Rogers and Hammersein musical about expatriate Chinese and their life in America.