1874 Richmond - Church StreetA photo from 1874, looking south down Church Street from the corner of Gipps Street. Swan Street crosses further down, with the Swan Hotel on the south east corner. A little further south we can see the bluestone walls that are part of the railway tunnel that connects East Richmond Station (known at the time as Church Street Station) with Burnley Station. Church Street deviates to the left a little and finishes at the Yarra River, and continues south

when the portico was added to it)

The Grimes party

The detailed photograph allows us to see into the yards of houses and establishments of that time

not in Sydney as rumoured

Has a population exceeding 1

An image of Russell Street around 1880

Pedestrians crossing street and standing on foot path

on fold-out sheet 49 x 61 cm

Little Collins Street

Several horse and carriages can be seen along the street

Shows houses and other buildings on hillside

The Hercules arrived in Hobson's Bay 75 years ago [that would make it around 1850]