#Swanston Street

[travelella]

State Library Victoria, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Dominic Kurniawan Suryaputra

[melbmemories]

Corner of Swanston Street and Latrobe Street Melbourne.

[s2z]

Flaneuring after a Christmas get together*

*Alcohol was involved. :)

[stil-lindigo]

Naarm/Melbourne, Australia (19/11/2023)- the Starbucks and the McDonald’s on Swanston Street are both completely closed.

[travelmanposts]

Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Australia: Princes Bridge, originally Prince's Bridge, is a bridge in central Melbourne, Australia that spans the Yarra River. It is built on the site of one of the oldest river crossings in the city, and forms a gateway into the central city from the south. The bridge connects Swanston Street on the north bank of the Yarra River to St Kilda Road on the south bank, and carries road, tram and pedestrian traffic. The present bridge was built in 1888 and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register. Wikipedia

[dream-world-universe]

Flinders Street Railway Station,  Melbourne, Australia: Flinders Street railway station is a train station located on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the busiest train station in Victoria, serving the entire metropolitan rail network, 15 tram routes travelling to and from the city, as well as some country and regional V/Line services to eastern Victoria. Wikipedia

[classicdavinci]

The 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition was an art exhibition held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It opened on 17 August 1889 at Buxton's Rooms on Swanston Street and featured 183 "impressions".

Frame were made of one solid wooden plank with a carved opening for the work of art 9 inches by 5 inches.

These works are called the 9 by 5s.

The works, together with the artists' overall arrangement of the exhibition space, reflected several concurrent styles and movements, including Japonisme, aestheticism and symbolism, with James McNeill Whistler being a particularly strong influence.

[hopefulkidshark]

Flinders Street Railway Station, Melbourne, Australia: Flinders Street railway station is a train station located on the corner of Flinders and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the busiest train station in Victoria, serving the entire metropolitan rail network, 15 tram routes travelling to and from the city, as well as some country and regional V/Line services to eastern Victoria. Wikipedia

[slidesworthseeing]

Found slide: Olympic Games street decorations at night, intersection of Bourke and Swanston Street, Naarm Melbourne, December 1956. Photo by John W Smith

[scotianostra]

On May 28th 1905 construction of the King's Theatre in Edinburgh commences.

Of all the theatres I have been at in Scotland The Kings is my favourite, the Miners club at my hometown of Loanhead used to run a bus every year for the members bairns to see the Panto at the Kings and later in my life I spent many years living around the Tollcross are where the Kings is situated, it is only a short walk from my flat now, and my local watering hole is called The Kings Arms as a nod to the place, maybe I'm a bit biased with having all this history on my doorstep- our pub quz even had a question about the theatre a couple of weeks back!

Enough of my memories The Kings was built by the Edinburgh firm of William Stewart Cruikshank, the philanthropist and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie laid the foundation stone and the Theatre was opened in 1906 with a performance of Cinderella and managed by A Stewart Cruikshank, he was actually the son of the builder apparently the original owners who contacted the work ran out of monay halfway through the project and some deal was done that included the Cruikshanks taking over ownership as the "King's Theatre (Edinburgh) Ltd" It was designed by the architect J D Swanston who previously designed The Kings Theatre in Kirkcaldy,he drew up the plans very similar to the Fife Theatre on a more grand scale.

The Theatre originally had Stalls and three circles - Dress, Family and Gallery, part of the Gallery was for standing guests! The Gallery was uncomfortable and latterly unsafe and was removed in the fifties reducing the Theatre to three levels with additional seating at the back of what is now called the Upper Circle. The present seating capacity is 1350.

After A Stewart Cruikshank retired, his son Stewart inherited the company and in 1969 sold the Theatre to Edinburgh Council, who still run it.

The interior decor is very ornate with nine boxes either side of the proscenium and there are fine examples of Edwardian stained glass in the foyer doors. The present Upper Circle bar area was originally a Billiard Room and there were shops either side of the entrance at street level. A major refurbishment was undertaken in the mid 1980s when new seating was installed at every level.

The King’s Theatre was built as a variety theatre and has a long tradition of pantomime with such stars as Stanley Baxter, Rikki Fulton and Jimmy Logan. There is also a long tradition of amateur operatic and musical work in Edinburgh which for some years now has taken place at the King’s Theatre.

Using my local knowledge a little known fact about the Kings is that a burn runs underneath the King’s Theatre. Known as the Lochrin (after which buildings and streets in Tollcross are named), the stream once fed the brewery that existed on the site where the theatre now stands.

And another is that local lad Sean Connery used to work backstage at the King's Theatre. In 1951 Sean (then known as Tam) worked as a stage hand and this is where his interest in the acting profession began. He auditioned for a production of South Pacific and, now calling himself Sean, landed a small part - and the rest is history.

The theatre is due to close its doors in the next year or so, but do not fear it is because it is getting a major 20 million pound refurbishment, initial designs for the 113-year-old, A-listed building include removing 200 seats, from 1,300 down to 1,100, to provide more hospitality.

A fundraising campaign, launched in 2019 by actor patron Brian Cox, promised to deliver a modernised, more sustainable theatre by 2023, unfortunately there was a major funding gap and then the pandemic happened, Work is ongoing at The Kings after the Scottish Government agreed to put an extra £3.85 million into a long-awaited refurbishment, there have been stumbling blocks, In January the destruction of one of its bars was refused by the council over concerns about the impact on the building’s “cultural significance”. A fortnight ago it was reported that there has been another set back, with the project’s cost rising by a further £2.3 million. It brings the total cost of the redevelopment to £37.9 million.

The major renovation, which was originally planned to begin in 2021 and cost £25 million, was delayed first by the Covid-19 pandemic and then by the £8.9 million funding gap I mentioned earlier.

Now, however, the project’s timeline has been postponed by a further three months, meaning it is unlikely to be ready for the 2025 Edinburgh International Festival.

The 12-week setback, detailed in a council report, is due to the discovery of bedrock at the base of a lift shaft, and will incur an additional cost of £2.3 million.

In the report, Capital Theatres, the charity that runs the council-owned venue, said it was “confident” that the cost could be met through fundraising before completion.

A spokeswoman for Capital Theatres said: “The development is now set to be complete later in 2025, with the first full production on stage likely to be the pantomime.”

[wongmsrailgallery]

Friday 20 September 2024 - B2.2080 heads north on route 1 at Swanston and Victoria Street. Passing the new left turn track into Victoria Street. Plus 93 more new photos in the Yarra Trams - Melbourne CBD and Docklands, Melbourne Airport Rail, Metro Tunnel works at Domain, Metro Trains Melbourne trackwork, Metro Tunnel works at CBD North, Melbourne suburban passenger information displays, Melbourne stations and infrastructure, Failing infrastructure at Southern Cross Station, V/Line at Southern Cross Station, Vandals and scroats, V/Line workshops, yards and shunting, Pacific National standard gauge grain, V/Line - standard gauge workshops and shunting, St Kilda Road and Toorak Road West tram diversion works, Yarra Trams - Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs, Yarra Trams - Melbourne's eastern suburbs, Kinetic Melbourne, Nuline Charter, GLV Coaches, Victoria and Swanston Street tram works, City Circle Tram, Dragon Coach Tour, Metro Tunnel works at CBD South and Melbourne Art Trams 2024 albums https://railgallery.wongm.com/page/archive/2024-09-20/

[melbmemories]

Looking west from the south eastern corner of Collins and Swanston Sts - opposite the Town Hall. 1890 (photo credit. State Lib of Vic)

[nando161mando]

Yesterday community members blockaded the University of Melbourne's 'Melbourne Connect' on Swanston street, calling for an end to the Israeli regime's occupation and genocide in Palestine.

Melbourne Connect is described as a research hub for science and emerging technologies, and also houses STELaRlab-a lab which partners with weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.

University of Melbourne staff members and Higher Degree Research Students were blocked from entering all three public entrances to Melbourne Connect, bringing the University's usual business of supplying, supporting, and justifying genocide to a halt.

This action stemmed from escalating community calls demanding that @unimelb cut ties with Lockheed Martin, and the weapons industry.

We are proud of the organizers of this action for their courage in shutting down Melbourne Connect!

Business as usual cannot continue while the University of Melbourne's refuses to address its ongoing complicity in funding the genocide in Gaza.

[dato-georgia-caucasus]

Peter Corrigan - RMIT Building, 8 Swanston Street, 1993, Melbourne, Australia

[skopostheorie]

I was gonna make a post like they're putting trams on Swanston Street every 30 seconds at peak because of woke. But I actually saw Peta Credlin saying that once

[heirbaron-blog]

43 years today (19th Feb,1980), Bon departed this earth, this clip filmed 23rd February 1976, Swanston street, Melbourne.. to be aired on Countdown the following Friday..