1911c Flinders Street Looking EastA photo looking east along Flinders Street from near the intersection with King Street. There is a lot happening in this photo, as we see a steam train chugging along the Railway Viaduct (opened 1891) that connects Flinders Street Station with Spencer Street Station (now Southern Cross Station). The area south of the viaduct was then occupied by a number of wharves that had been an essential part of Melbourne's history, but are now long gone. and we

Sad photo of an old unknown hulk in Hobson's Bay

The Falls were an ancient basalt ridge (roughly located where Queens Bridge is today) that created a low barrier across the river

Georges ceased trading after 115 years in 1995

a potato and a buttered bread roll

The building was completed in 1872 and the first Melbourne sovereign was minted on the 8th of July that year

A very early map of Sydney Cove

labelled "Lovers Lane" (sideways)

All of the buildings in this photo were demolished within a few years to accommodate the new T&G Life Assurance building

On the north side of the Station building is the Princes Bridge Hotel

They had a number of stores in country Victoria and established their first Melbourne branch in Carlton in 1874

The drilling operations attracted large numbers of curious spectators who watched the divers descend and ascend each day

who also gave us the magnificent Princess Theatre