Repost 2016, with lots of new old photos :

The #salvationarmy’s #citytemple in #bourkestreet.

Designed by #OakdenAddisonandKemp (with #billingandson), it was actually built in 1890 for the #YMCA who found they couldn’t keep up payments during the crash of the 1890s, so sold it to the salvos in 1895. The fabbo #castironverandah was lost some time in the 50s, and reinstated in 2011. Wonder if it said Salvation Army originally?

2021: my answer comes from the images, silly me – the earliest image when it didn’t have a verandah was the YMCA, so the Salvos added it – so they didn’t really have to put it back, but I’m glad they did, it’s great (it was either that or restore the ground level, which they havnt done).

Also in 2011 they added a larger roof thing, which isn’t that great, but not that visible either. And yes there was a film processing ‘Limelight studio’ in the attic in the early 1900s, when the Salvos made the Stations of the Cross, amongst the first feature films made in 1900. Image of what was left up there from @michaeltaylorarchitects.

Old images from the Salvos FB page, photos mine from 2013.

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