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1980. Coop's Shot Tower (now inside the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre) and the city skyline, photographed from 200 Latrobe Street (now demolished) in 1980

From the Victorian Heritage Database:"Coop's Shot Tower and Flanking Building were erected in 1889-90 and consist of a two storey, three bay brick structure dominated by a fifty metre high castellated tower. The Tower was used for the manufacture of lead shot until closing in 1960. It remained unoccupied until being incorporated into the Melbourne Central shopping centre in the late 1980s-early 1990s.

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Homoeopathic Hospital, Melbourne. c1908

1951 showing the Homoeopathic Hospital about to be demolished, as Prince Henry's rises next to it.

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Flinders Lane, Melbourne, north side, just east of King St, 1956.

HC Nolan, Commission Agents, operated from Dudley Buildings in Collins St.

LA Wade, Paper Merchants, operated from Robb's Buildings in Collins St.

This photo includes the rear of their premises.

NLA caption: "Old warehouses off Flinders Lane West, Melbourne, Victoria, 1956,"

Wolfgang Sievers

NLA

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High Street, Kew, 1890s. State Library of Victoria image H27411

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Reg Hunt Motors, 77 Nepean Highway, Elsternwick. 1957, shortly after building completion.

This modernist, architect-designed, automotive showroom would evolve to become Reg Hunt’s Golden Mile of Cars.

Reg Hunt was a racing car driver. His business grew to become Australia’s biggest Holden dealership.

Note the neon advertising sign for Atlantic petrol

Their catchy phrase was ‘Nobody undersells Reg Hunt – But Nobody!’.

Photo: Peter Wille

Source: SLV

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Led Zeppelin 1972 Australian Tour - Kooyong (Photographer unknown)

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Dust storm Feb 1983 which was soon followed by the Ash wednesday bushfires

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The Yarra below the Falls, Melbourne. c1858

View of Yarra River ca. 1858 looking west towards Hobson's Bay. Low, natural basalt ridge across river known as 'the Falls' and barrier between fresh water from upstream and sea water from Port Phillip Bay, foreground. In centre, wider expanse of water known as 'the Turning Basin'. Cole's Wharf with sign in background. Numerous sailing ships and steamships including paddle steamer docked on sides of river. Wooden cranes and windlass on bank, right. Piles of stone, wood and sacks on right bank. Small pier at lower left with child in dress standing on end. Rigging of sailing ships on horizon.

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Melbourne's first Fish Market in 1874.

Photo by Charles Bayliss. We're looking at Melbourne's original Fish Market, which was located on the south-west corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets.

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1892 Bourke Street looking west from Swanston.

The men closest are standing under the verandah of the Royal Mail Hotel. The Leviathan is just further away on the opposite corner. Buckley and Nunn is over on the right, and Robertson and Moffat would be replaced by Myers about 1914.

The young lads selling the paper are bare-footed.

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Wed 14 Jan 1885

MR. ROBB'S BUILDINGS, CORNER OF COLLINS AND KING STREETS.

These buildings are being erected by Mr. John Robb, the well-known railway contractor, and have a frontage to Collins-street of 132ft., and to King-street of 66ft.- They are divided into five storeys. Each, has two tiers of lofty cellars, below the level of Collins-street footpath, but as the land is very much lower at rear, the lower cellars are entered from right-of-way, whilst the upper tier is entered from Collins-street. It is intended to use the ground and first floor as offices. The corner building will contain on ground floor a spacious and handsome office and other rooms in connexion therewith, and will be suitable for a bank or shipping offices, being very adjacent to shipping in the river, and will have a handsome flight of stone steps at the corner of the two streets. Two flights of wide stone stairs give access to the first floor offices, under which are large strong rooms for the use of ground floor offices. The floors between cellars and the ground floors 'are of 'fireproof' construction, with iron girders and cement arches. . There are three storeys above the first floor, which are intended for stores and showrooms. The elevations are in the Italian style, starting from a handsome Malmsbury stone base, and above.bold Corinthian columns. The whole will be brick, cemented. The total height from paving to top of parapet will be over 80ft. at the eastern corner in Collins-street, and nearly 90ft.' at the lower corner in King jstreet. Mr. Robb is constructing the whole entirely by day labour, and all the work will be of the most substantial In character. All the floors will be carried by iron girders, strong enough to go from, wall to wall without any inter mediate support by iron columns. The cost will be about £30,000 when completed. - Messrs.. Thomas 'Watts and Sons are the architects, and Mr. Simpson is in charge of the works and supervises the construction.

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"At the pub" - Toorak, 1970.

Rennie Ellis

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H.Trump's Hotel on the corner of Stephen (later Exhibition)] and Collins Streets, [looking east to the old Treasury Building, East Melbourne]

Author / Creator American & Australasian Photographic Company

Date 1870-1875

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In the 19th century, Mornington was a long way from Melbourne. To enable residents to travel to Melbourne from Mornington by road, Cobb & Co started a coach service from the Royal Hotel on the Esplanade.

Leaving Mornington at 6am and arriving in Melbourne at midday, the coach left on it's return journey at 2pm reaching Mornington at 7pm. Horse teams were changed at Frankston and Mordialloc.

It was an adventurous journey. The coach, bulging with meat, mail, luggage, bags of chaff etc, would take on an assortment of passengers, the majority of whom were somehow stowed into its dark interior. Favoured ones sat on the box seat with the driver and engaged in lively banter along the way.

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Footscray - Napier Street c 1908

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Massey Ferguson, Show Room and Head Office, Sunshine, Victoria, circa 1958

Railway pedestrian bridge to allow workers from Albion to get to work and home again.

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An Australian hospital nursery back in the 1950's Back then bubs was usually whisked away soon after birth and returned to mum for each four hourly feed. Dad wasn't usually allowed at the birth and had to view bubs by presenting a name card at the nursery window.