Melbourne Tram Museum
Postcard - Bourke Street, Melbourne, 1910s
... ...GPO clock tower...It shows numerous cable tram, numerous horse drawn carts and carriages, pedestrians and the GPO clock tower. Postcards were a common way of quickly communicating with others before the telephone and were cheaper than telegrams.
...It shows numerous cable tram, numerous horse drawn carts and carriages, pedestrians and the GPO clock tower. Postcards were a common way of quickly communicating with others before the telephone and were cheaper than telegrams. ...
Photograph looks east along Bourke Street from Queens Street showing a long line of commercial buildings into the distance all the way to Parliament House. It shows numerous cable tram, numerous horse drawn carts and carriages, pedestrians and the GPO clock tower. Postcards were a common way of quickly communicating with others before the telephone and were cheaper than telegrams.
Yields information about early Bourke Street and an early communication method.Coloured postcard with location and greetings on front and postcard markings with personal message on rear. Printed top of photograph: 'Bourke Street, Melbourne. Hearty Greetings'. On the rear are postcard markings with a handwritten business message about a chair repair and an address of 'Wickes Factory, Church Street, Richmond'.cable trams, horse drawn carts, telegrams, flinders street, telephone, bourke street, parliament house, gpo clock tower
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