You might have a drink at the tavern, or take in a circus show of dance and swordplay on horseback. As The Age celebrates 170 years, we look back at the city’s cultural life in 1854.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.If you were suddenly transported through time to a Saturday night in Melbourne in 1854, you would find yourself in a city at once familiar and strange. With a few exceptions, the buildings would look rather less robust than today’s structures, many of them timber and canvas, little more than oversized tents. But the degree to which the city is a playground come nightfall would strike an immediate chord.
The State Library of Victoria photographed in 1864, when it was known as the Melbourne Public Library.wrote on February 12, 1856. “Otherwise, we shall always be suffering the evils of an intellectual famine, and no man can compute whatWhere today’s Kmart Centre stands, on Bourke Street, you’d find a massive building under construction.
The clamour to stamp out all this licentiousness will rise in step with the new Parliament House, which opens in 1856. But the fact that many of the premises on which the drinking, gambling, prostitution and thievery take place belong to honourable members of the new British colony rather undercuts all that high-blown posturing.Not all activities up this end of town are quite so dubious, though.
The city can’t get enough of horse-related entertainment. At the western end – on the other side of the flood-prone chain of ponds that dominate Elizabeth Street – people congregate around the “horse bazaars” of Bourke Street, between Elizabeth and Queen streets.
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