1880s Flinders StreetA rather quiet looking Flinders Street, taken from across Spencer Street, looking east. The Sir Charles Hotham Hotel on the corner of Flinders and Spencer Streets is long gone, with a new edifice erected in 1912, still bearing the Sir Charles Hotham name. Away in the medium distance we see masts of ships, docked on the north side of the Yarra, just in front of the Customs House (the building with the double flagpoles). All text HotPress Photographer

It was built in 1842 and remained in use until 1852

lithographer and draughtsman

formerly R

The Queen's Wharf

The footpaths and roads are wet from an afternoon shower

The photographer is standing a hundred metres or so

One can only image what terrible conditions they suffered in the trenchs

South Coast

Esther Arthur

captured in 1900 shortly before its demolition in November of that year

The Old Treasury Building is one of the finest nineteenth century buildings in Australia

The notes from the State Library tell us that the original image is a stereograph of Batman's Hill by "John H