1874 Flinders Street West and Customs HouseA photo from 1874 looking west along Flinders Street from the intersection with Market Street. The large building on the right is the Customs House. The present Customs House building is the result of two separate building phases over 20 years, with architect Peter Kerr involved in both phases. With vastly expanded trade and soaring revenue from the gold rush, the Victorian colonial government commissioned Peter Kerr to design a new Customs House,

looking up Swanston Street

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Vacuum Carpet Cleaners

possibly because it was printed commercially

Victorian and Tasmanian forces would wear the hat with the right brim held up by a clip or badge (as depicted in this print)

accompanied by Robert Russell

A photograph from 1875 of Melbourne looking north west with the nearest street being Swanston Street

but sadly the Federal Hotel was not one of them

The only building in this image still extant is St Francis' Roman Catholic Church on the NE corner of Elizabeth and Lonsdale Street (opened 1845)

on the north-west corner of Little Bourke Street

where cargo was unloaded in Melbourne from its earliest days