1905c Bourke StreetA photograph of Bourke Street from the 1905 period. The horse and cart have just crossed Russell Street and are heading east. On the far left of the photo we see the Austral Hotel (181 Bourke Street), and heading down Bourke Street at 185 is the Interstate Outfitting Company (run by Beaconsfield & Co. who also had another store, the Federal Supply Stores, further down Bourke Street), then Francis Longmore & Co. Chemists at 187, then Sheppard's

sited on the corner of King Street

and carried it overboard

country Victoria and other States

Features topography

so it may have be taken between 1910-1914

Elevated view of a line of soldiers walking along a muddy duckboard and corduroy track

A very early map of Sydney Cove

Maid of Julpha

Away in the medium distance we see masts of ships

particularly since the 1860s

mast of sailing ships on Yarra visible on left

The speed of life back then was quite different to modern day