Tag: George Coppin in Melbourne



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Queens-Theatre-Royal-Melbourne

Site of Queen’s Theatre c 1843 – Cnr Queen & Little Bourke Sts, Melbourne, VIC

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Category: Historical POI's 1841-1860, Historical, and Site | Cultural
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Whilst wandering the streets of Melbourne, perhaps spare a moment, and a thought, for the beautiful hand-crafted buildings that once adorned the streets – and compare them to the architecture that has replaced them.  It is a tragedy that allows such beauty and history to be demolished, and with it, the memory of our first pioneers who laboriously shaped this country less Read more…

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Theatre-Royal-Melbourne

Site of the Theatre Royal c 1855 – 215 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC

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Viewing the construction that now occupies the site of the very first grand theatre to be built in Australia, it is impossible to comprehend that such a magnificent structure would be demolished to be replaced with that, that we see today.  Another example of Melbourne’s total disregard for its pioneering firsts – and, the quality, beauty & pride of Melbourne’s pioneers, its original buildings Read more…

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Coppins-Olympic-Theatre-c-1865

Site of Coppin’s Olympic Theatre ‘The Iron Pot’ c 1855 – Cnr Exhibition & Lonsdale Sts, Melbourne, VIC

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It’s hard to imagine that in a time when ships were propelled by sail, a trip to the England would take between 2 to 4 months, when there were no power tools, steam was still in its infancy . . . → that an entire 2 storey, pre-fabricated Theatre could be cast in iron on the other side of the Read more…