1900 Flinders StLooking west along Flinders Street around 1900. The elevated railway viaduct (linking Flinders Street Station with Spencer Street Station) is on the left. Under the viaduct are Robert Dent's "Viaduct Refreshment Rooms" offering tea, coffee and pastry. The doors on the far left clearly state "Ladies Only". Fry's Chocolate is heavily advertised. The viaduct was widened in 1915 to accommodate a duplication of railway lines, and the refreshment rooms were

showing the southern facade of "The Block"

and carried it overboard

agreement was reached that Melbourne's first stone bridge

after Melbourne City Council introduced ByLaw 39 of Aug 1858 that made these cabs stay away from the kerb

the first Exhibition Building

Photographed by Charles Nettleton

it seems that a fruiterer has traded in this area for at least a quarter of a century

People in street

A very early image of the Yarra from 1858

one of Australia's most prestigious locations

The clock shows 6:19am

a coal merchant