1874 Flinders Street looking WestA photo from 1874 looking west along Flinders Street from the intersection with Swanston Street. The famous Prince's Bridge Hotel on the far right was originally built as a three storey bluestone residence in 1853, with butcher James Graham's shop on the ground floor, and a young ladies school run upstairs by a Mrs Nicole Cook. The block of land that this building is on was originally purchased by John Batman in 1837 for 100, during the first land

somewhere between 1948 (when Orcades started service

with this section of our past now a walkway at the southern boundary of Federation Square

hidden by the bend in the river

He was a member of the Melbourne City Council

The nearest cart has freshly baked bread on its roof and waits for early risers and workers

Contracts taken for every kind of public or private entertainments

Russell was sent to Melbourne in 1836 by Governor Bourke to survey the general area of the Settlement

Notes from the State Library tell us that this image is "Photographer's number in image: 812"

Photographer possibly Captain G

previously known as the "Railway Hotel"

Ball and Welch Building

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