1890c City BathsA photograph of the original Melbourne City Baths around 1890. This building was replaced by the current City Baths building in 1904. The baths are still at 420 Swanston Street and you can use the baths' facilities. Seems like the signwriter had a spelling problem. By the 1850s the Yarra had become quite polluted and was the cause of an epidemic of typhoid fever, resulting in many deaths. The residents of Melbourne wanted a community bathing facility

In this area Flinders Street runs very close to the wharves

The three-storey building on the right is the beautiful Victoria Buildings

with the North Melbourne tram

Russell made many sketches of early Melbourne and

attended by the surveyors

which are approximately 1 km away

but locally known as the Falls Bridge

Prince's Bridge

Notes from the State Library tell us that this image is a "View east along Flinders Street possibly from the area of Victoria Dock

Of the many impressive street landscapes that have been destroyed in the name of progress

with Stephen street heading south

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