1877 Theatre Royal Bourke Street Melbourne 1901-1920 A photograph from around 1920/1921

A photograph from around 1920/1921 looking east along Bourke Street

The Melbourne City Council opened the first Melbourne City Baths for public use at this location on 23rd December 1859

(See it as it was when it became "Georges"

The photo was taken from the roof of the newly-completed Cromwell House building on the south-east corner of Collins and Russell Street

proudly selling Acropolis Greek Cigarettes

1877 Theatre Royal Bourke Street Melbourne 1901-1920 A photograph from around 1920/1921A photograph of the second Theatre Royal (1872 1933) in 1877, where a production entitled "Pluto" was playing to enthralled crowds. This building was at 236 Bourke Street on the northern side between Swanston Street and Russell Street. A store which found accommodation in the ground floor of the theatre was S. S. Hough & Co.'s Depot of Novelties, also offering themselves as Importers of Fancy Goods. The original Theatre Royal on this site burned down