Here is a pub detail
This little modern lane way off Lonsdale has a history.
When Sheldon and I were doing "The Producers" at the Prinny we were put up in serviced apartments a block from here when this development had only just partially opened. We had been trailing all the way on a tram to a Coles in Collingwood or the one in Flinders St and it was really all a bit if a slog. One day we passed this very alley and I saw a little Chinese lady with a shopping basket going down to the end. "Look, Sheldon, I think there is something down there" Immediately a wave of doubt and pessimism fueled his response, "No! There won't be anything down there, No" Well I persuaded him to give it a squiz over. When we reached the end and turned right there was a carnival of businesses in full swing including a Big W and the biggest supermarket in the world. With nary a breath I heard, "Yes, this will do nicely" and he plunged into the throng as if he had been shopping there for weeks!!
Stalactites, once the only all night nosh house either to sop up the evening's over indulgence or continue it.
The Russell St cop shop now turned into a yuppy castle
And opposite is The City Court
The Old Mebourne Gaol..now a tourist attraction. You can see the beam Ned Kelly was hung from and peer into the deluxe cells where the poor crims were huddled in the damp and cold.
Ball games in what was the exercise yard.
This is the lovely 1926 Emily McPherson College now part of the RMIT. It was THE place for a lady to study home economics, cookery and dressmaking. My sister graduated as a fashioner designer from here.
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