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Setting the stone for a new hall, and a royal visit
On November 29, 1867, the burgeoning City of Melbourne experienced one of its biggest crowds in its history.
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The doctor is out right now
Photographed circa 1910, this mansion with distinguished Corinthian columns was found at 182 Collins St (now 41 Collins St, Collins Place Plaza) and, from 1872 until 1910, it was the home and surgery of notable doctor and politician-about-town, Louis Lawrence Smith.
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From sly grog to flat whites: the hidden histories of Melbourne’s lanes
Melbourne’s lanes are celebrated worldwide for their street art, cafes and character-filled charm but rewind a hundred years, and these bluestone lanes had a much darker past.
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“The Old Tin Shed”: hated by many, missed by few
Taken in the early 1960s, this image displays a humble wood and galvanised iron shed on the corner of Little Bourke and Elizabeth streets.
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Melbourne Morgue, Princes Bridge
Melbourne was growing fast in the 1850s. No longer a colonial outpost it had boomed into one of the leading cities of the Empire.
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Flinders Street Station turns 170 years old in September
In September, Australia’s oldest train station is celebrating being the major train hub for Melburnians for almost two centuries.
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Newsboys Club
This faded and foxed image of the corner of Collins St has a ghostly quality that compels us to look within it.
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Who’s Tailor sat at Elizabeth St? “My Tailor”
Taken in 1954 by photographer Ben Haigh, this image highlights the western side of Elizabeth St between the Bourke Street Mall and Little Bourke St opposite the GPO.
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A bustling scene at Queen’s Wharf, 1853
Full of life and activity, you see here a crowded Cole’s Wharf, located between Spencer and King streets, in the early 1850s.
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An elegant colossus reaches for the sky
Captured by amateur photographer Pierre Robin in early September 1959, this is one of the last photographs to capture the solid presence of the Colonial Mutual Building on the north-west corner of Collins and Elizabeth streets.
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In the words of Carole King: “City streets, the stories that they tell”
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