1905 Elevated view of Melbourne from the corner of Swanston and Collins StreetsA panoramic photo by Robert Vere Scott, taken from the top of the Victoria Building, looking across the intersection of Collins and Swanston Streets. Melbourne Town Hall is on the far right of the photo. Most other buildings are long gone. The Stewart Dawson building was replaced by the Manchester Unity Building in 1932. The Town Hall Building is still there. Also still standing is Coop's Shot Tower towards the end of Swanston Street on the right, and

with the suburbs of St Kilda and South Melbourne off in the distance

Just one month after deciding on the location

Photographer not attributed

According to the Argus from 15th February 1922[2] "Another of the company's tugs

The portico (not yet built) was added in 1887

An illustration from the "Illustrated Australian News" of 1887

We can see in our photo that work is underway in upgrading the building

Queen's Wharf is the earliest wharf in Melbourne and came about because it was the northern bank of the Turning Basin and just south of Flinders Street

He knew of the existence of the Falls

The Melbourne Mint was part of the British Royal Mint and was created to handle the massive gold production in Australia and to reduce the export of gold to be turned into coinage

looking north from Snowden Gardens on the south side of the Yarra River

The Falls were an ancient line of basalt rock that crossed the river Yarra near where Queens Bridge stands today