1 September 2022
A still from ‘Lost Melbourne’, a great little doco by Gus Berger about much that we lost – and I’m in it ! Coming to cinemas. This is St Patricks Hall being demolished in 1957; it was on Bourke Street, the hall built by the Irish community in 1849, and was where Parliament first sat 1851-56. A grand front was added in 1872. The 50s modernist office block that replaced it is quite nice, quite intact (except for added facade pattern), and is now heritage listed.
Storey of Melbourne 