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Finding ghosts and inspiration in Chinatown
It’s mid-afternoon in Melbourne and I’m surrounded by the familiar heritage buildings in Chinatown, though without much time to appreciate them.
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St Patrick’s Hall
St Patrick’s Hall, on Bourke St between William and Queen streets, was designed by Samuel Jackson and built in 1849 on land purchased by the St Patrick’s Society.
Read MoreYarra Turning Basin, 1906
This elevated view, looking west along the Yarra River and Flinders St, taken from the Commercial Travellers’ Club (now the Rendezvous Hotel), shows (left to right): Banana Alley (beneath the railway yards), the railway viaduct (connecting Flinders St and Spencer St stations), Queens Bridge with the Yarra Turning Basin beyond.
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Equitable Building
The Equitable Building (also known as the Colonial Mutual Life Building), was for many years after its completion in 1896 the benchmark of commercial architecture in Melbourne.
Read MoreFish Market c. 1890
Between 1865 and 1892, the Melbourne Fish Market occupied the Flinders and Swanston streets south- west corner.
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Marvellous Collins St
Collins St has been Melbourne’s best-known and most fashionable street since the 1840s.
Read MoreScotts Hotel, Melbourne
This photograph was taken in c. 1950 within the saloon bar of Scotts Hotel, Melbourne.
Read MoreThe Olderfleet Building of Collins St
This photograph is taken in the early to mid-1970s, at the west end of Collins St, near King St.
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Independent Chapel Collins Street 1860
This chapel stood on the corner of Collins and Russell streets. Following the arrival of Reverend William Waterfield, planning started to construct an Independent chapel in what was then known as the Port Phillip District.
Read MoreThe store with more
If you lived in Melbourne in 1900, and you wanted to buy a watch, some jewellery, a cutlery set, glassware, or a wedding present, you would most likely have visited Edments’ Melbourne Supply Stores, opposite Myers in Bourke St.
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