Hard Jacka - Melbourne

Melbourne

From this angle the headquarters of Melbourne’s Metropolitan Gas Company in Flinders Street appears to overshadow its neighbour, St Paul’s Cathedral. Today these two buildings face the Federation Square complex.
(from Ray Proudley, The Circle of Influence, A History of the Gas Industry in Victoria, Hargreen)

A perspective drawing of the Metropolitan Gas Company’s building as envisaged by Mr Alfred C. Smart of Messrs Reed, Smart and Tappin, architects.
(from Ray Proudley, The Circle of Influence, A History of the Gas Industry in Victoria, Hargreen)