1877 Theatre Royal Bourke Street Melbourne 1901-1920 (See it as it was

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

instructed his Surveyor-General Charles Grimes to travel from Port Jackson to the Port Phillip Bay area and to explore and survey the area

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

sometime between 1923 and 1965

but it proved inadequate as the city grew

1877 Theatre Royal Bourke Street Melbourne 1901-1920 (See it as it wasA 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