1867c Bourke Street Looking West Melbourne 1840-1860 A sad image of the

A sad image of the steam paddle-propelled tug boat "Hercules" (in the foreground) tied up along the Melbourne Steamship Co

from the Little Collins Street intersection

The notes from the State Library tell us that this image is "Tulloch & Brown's map of the Colony of Victoria [cartographic material] : comprising part of New South Wales

"Geebung" was built in 1885 in New South Wales[1]

Sprightly and Alacrity

1867c Bourke Street Looking West Melbourne 1840-1860 A sad image of theA photograph around 1867 looking west, from the eastern end of Bourke Street where it meets Spring Street. We can see right along Bourke Street out to the western extremities of Melbourne. Spring Street runs across the photo in the foreground. The fence and gates belong to Parliament House, commenced building in 1855, and from where Charles Nettleton captured this image. The Old White Hart Hotel seen in the 1858 photograph here, has been rebuilt as