Hi List On a 1918 wedding registration 'Coffee Palace Melbourne' was given as the place of residence. Can anyone tell me where and what this place was? Thank you Lorna.

try state Library of Victoria - ask the librarian cheers Maria On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:30 PM, B & L Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi List > > On a 1918 wedding registration 'Coffee Palace Melbourne' was given as the > place of residence. Can anyone tell me where and what this place was? > > Thank you > Lorna. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:30:54 +1100, B & L Jones wrote: >On a 1918 wedding registration 'Coffee Palace Melbourne' was given as the >place of residence. Can anyone tell me where and what this place was? Coffee Palaces were places for teetotallers to stay, the Melbourne Coffee Palace was in Bourke Street, in the vicinity of Russell Street, it was still extant in the 1940s but down market by then. Cheers, Tom <[email protected]> Tom Perrett