1905c Bourke Street Parliament House Over five million bricks were

Over five million bricks were used in its construction

with this section of our past now a walkway at the southern boundary of Federation Square

so that dates this photograph just at the end of the 19th century

on the corner of Lonsdale and William Streets

"  Grimes' chart clearly showed the existence and location of a major source of fresh water

1905c Bourke Street Parliament House Over five million bricks wereA 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