GFE Stumpes: Melbourne, AU III (9/8/2025)

Monday, September 8, 2025 (continued)

From Flinders Lane we headed north on Swanston Street.

The Art Tram features Bulkburrannyuawan/Soft Sunrise
(2020, by Kelly Koumalatsos), which is
actually possum fur prints (KSS)

Florist shop bouquets

Melbourne Town Hall (1867-1887, by
Joseph Reed & Frederick Barnes in Second Empire style)

Melbourne operates the world's largest tram network;
this is a B-class tram T2026 (1988-1994), which
sports the green fractal design

Manchester Unity Building (1931-1932,
by Marcus Barlow in Art Deco Gothic style)

A-class tram T269 (1984-1987)

Capitol Theatre (1924, by Walter Burley
Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin
in Chicago-Gothic style)

So much color wih Begonias for Spring

MoonSwatch car: it so happens that the "Mission to
Earthphase - Moonshine Gold" edition was available
exclusively on September 8, 2025 - today!

Block Arcade (1891-1893, by Edward
Twentyman and Margaret Askew in
Mannerist style) on Collins Strret

Mosaic flooring of the Block Arcade

Block Arcade was inspired by the
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milano

The Hopetoun Tea Rooms (1892) is the only original shop (KSS)

From Block Arcade into the Royal Arcade
(1869, by Charles Webb in Italianate style),
the oldest arcade in Melbourne

Royal Arcade's Gog and Magog bellringers

Royal Arcade Bourke Street entrance

E-class tram T6012 (2013-2021)

We took the tram east along Bourke Street.

Parliament of Victoria (1855-1891, by John Knight
and Peter Kerr in Neoclassical style)

Protest banners at Parliament (KSS)

Walking on Spring Street past the Hotel Windsor (1883-
1884, by Charles Webb in Renaissance Revival style) (KSS)

Stanford Fountain (1871, by
William Stanford, a convict)

Statue (1889, by Sir W Hamo Thornycroft)
of Charles George Gordon, Major-General
of the Royal Engineers who fell at
Khartoum in 1886; his death prompted the
dispatch of the first Australian troops
overseas to Sudan in vengeance

Old Treasury Building (1858-1862, by John James Clark
in Renaissance Revival style)

Treasury Gardens (1851) pond (KSS)

Funny place to see Gallinula tenebrosa/Dusky Moorhens

John F Kennedy Memorial (1965, by Raymond B Ewers)
in the Treasury Gardens

Fitzroy Gardens Conservatory (1930 in Spanish Mission style)

Statue (1975, by Ailsa O'Connor) of
Mary Gilbert, the first European
woman settler in Victoria, with
primroses and cyclamen

White Cyclamen persicum

Tamiko in the conservatory (KSS)

Diana and the Hounds (1940, by
William Leslie-Bowles)

In the spirit of Captain James Cook, you were supposed to
look in the distance at evergreen trees native to
Australia and the Pacific Islands, and see the
Araucaria columnaris/Cook's Pine (3rd from left)