indulge me please - i felt that recent ozscraper threads
produced some such rarely seen old photos of Melbourne
that i could not resist copying many for myself,
and put together some here as compilation album:
Contributing posts acknowledged with the pics ...

View from FSS window, late Australian Building on the left
(posted by Collector):


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/FlindersWindow1.jpg


Fish Market, Flinders St
(posted by Grollo)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/b139471.jpg


Collins St
(posted by Tayser)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/pi0006171.jpg


Elephant Walk:
(posted by Grollo)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/b145621.jpg



Finks Building Fire - key element here obviously
being the pert lady in full sleeves, hair up and hat!
(myself, as i recall of 'Walking Melbourne')


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/a139271.jpg


Oriental Bank, Queens Street
(ditto)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/mn003073_w5611.jpg


Parer's Cafe, Bourke St
(posted by Collector)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/ParersCafe1.jpg



Plume sign (not sure where, Market St??)
(posted by Grollo)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/a398301.jpg



Collins Street postcard
posted by Grollo)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/sj0001411.jpg


Swanston Street Postcard
(posted by Collector)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/Swanston91.jpg


State Library
i liked the mood of this, but cant recall
where i found it


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/library1.jpg



and enjoy looking at the Princess Theatre now,
every time i approach it:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/princess1.jpg
Eeerie: as told on 'Rewind' tonight, Princess is home of one of the theatre world's most famous 'ghosts' Frederick Baker, 'Federici' who died of a heart attack while playing Mephistopheles (the Devil) in 'Faust.' Expired while
descending lift-wise into a stage prop hell - since seen by many artists appearing there, and for many years a Dress Circle seat was traditionally kept vacant for him.

Grollo posted this unnamed beauty in the "swinging Twenties' thread:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/scandoc3.jpg
that's it. Bronte

Hmm ... I missed the Flinders St. station window shot previously. The "Plume" building is 60 Market St. (probably 56 or 58-60): I worked in its successor.

60 market st was originally known as Colonial Mutual Life Society building. It was a 9st boom scraper completed at end of 1889.height-41m.

That is the best photo I have seen of the Fish Markets ever. I wish that building was still there. It is like the other bookend of Flinders Street to the long Flinders Street Station facade.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/WesternMarket1.jpg
The forgotten Western Market.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/EasternMarket.jpg
Love this shot of The Eastern Market.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FlindersFire2.jpg
The Finks Building, corner Elizabeth and Flinders Streets, survives this fire but not demolition many years later.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FederalHotel1.jpg
Federal Hotel, above and below. Just can't get enough, just can't get enough...
http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FederalHotel2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/ExhibitionAerial.jpg
Aerial of REB with east and west wings and oval.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsWest2.jpg
Gothic Collins Street.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CML1.jpg
CML as it was. Remnants can now be found at Nicholson Street side of REB.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/QueenLookNorth1.jpg
Sun Insurance Buildings, south-east corner of Queen Street and Flinders Lane.
The Royal Exchange Assurance Building, north-east corner of Queen Street and Flinders Lane.
APA Building, south-east corner of Queen and Collins Streets.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/AusAPA1.jpg
You should all know this one. Just can't get enough, just can't get enough....
http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/AusAPA2.jpg

gah! CML - Colonial Mutual Life. That's what the CML stands for on the shiteful building that replaced it (I thought it was Coles Myer Limited LOL doh :)).

keep em coming ;)

wow, it truely was once "marvelous". shame.

The one of the REB looks facinating, the oval looks to have a grandstand as well I wonder who played there and when the oval was turned into a car park which btw is my first memory of the REB.The Motor Reg branch was also located in that area after WW2 .There was also the Aquarium at the back up until the early 1950s till it got burnt down.

lovely additions to the album Collector:
came across the Western Market during the searches but couldn't quite place where it was (opposite Eastern-cnr Bourke & Exhibition? i thought there was some reference to it being replaced by a women's prison, but there was a mention of Lt Collins St there. Now I'm totally confused - perhaps you can clear it up...

btw, while we're adding, i thought that this shot of the Junction Hotel st Kilda deserved to be in the album too:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/junctionhotel1.jpg

I believe the Western Market was on the site of the former National Mutual House (Now AXA House) on Collins st, between William and Market st.

lovely additions to the album Collector:
came across the Western Market during the searches but couldn't quite place where it was (opposite Eastern-cnr Bourke & Exhibition? i thought there was some reference to it being replaced by a women's prison, but there was a mention of Lt Collins St there. Now I'm totally confused - perhaps you can clear it up...

The General Market later known as The Western Market started operations in 1842 and was demolished in 1961. The market took up the entire block surrounded by Collins Street, Market Street, Flinders Lane and William Street.

Market Street was named after the market and also, the reason why Flinders Lane is wider between Market Street and William Street was to allow the carts carrying produce to access the market easier.
For more info on our lost markets, check out the thread I created for Walking Melbourne:

http://www.walkingmelbourne.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=401

album additions:
Panorama: 'The Long View' 1917
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/jolimontpano.jpg Public Transport Commission photo library
taken with early 20thC 'Cirkut' camera with swing lens


Signal Box, 1967, Queensbridge rail junction
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/flindersstreeta.jpg


interior:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/flindersstreeta-f.jpg


signal gantry

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/flindersstreeta-s.jpg

overall area: 1968
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/flindersstreeta-v.jpg
last 3 pic from Collection of Dr J.W.F. Scrimgeour, PTC photo library

adding two selections from Culwulla's 'Time Warp" thread in Ozscrapers:
(but photobucket has downsized these bmps, see cul thread for full effect)

rainy elizabeth st and APA (later 'Australian Blg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/elizabeth5.bmp

and another of the much-lamented Federal Coffee Palace 1889


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v460/Bronteboy/federal2.bmp

national library of australia pics

I walked through that Eastern Market as a small child .. and the Fish Market always made such an impression on my ears as the old Tait train grinded around the curves.

Perhaps I've said this before, but as a child I set off mapping the CBD (around 1960). At that time, maps available to the general public were terrible, and I had to map even The Royal Botanic Gardens myself, which, at that time, on any available map, were just a uniform patch of green.

I was soon lured into an abyss. As a child or ten or eleven, I determined to list all the buildings in the Melbourne CBD (which was at that time fairly precisely defined), and, I guess, their proprietors. This was a hard job for a child of my age, and I remember, in particular, stewing over the boundaries in the lanes south-west of Collins and Queens Streets ... I hasten to remind you that I was a kid- eleven or twelve- (eleven years and four months old, actually), who was pacing out (in this case quite literally) the back-alleys of the CBD of a city of several million, quite alone ... and while his parents I guess knew he was in the city, they had absolutely no idea where exactly he was. How times have changed!

I discovered many things during my exploits.

Although I was very methodical, and set out with the intention to map one side of one street, east to west, and then another in the opposite direction, reality over took me. Had I been a little bit older, I would have dealt adequately with this problem but I wasn't and I didn't.

The problem was: there was someone or something which owned one building. Just up the street, there were two, and then three. And then I hit those big buildings in the middle of town, which at that time were limited to twelve floors and 132 ft. height: so what did I do? Of course, I copied all the tenants names down. In each major building in the Centre of Melbourne. I was struck about that time, by a theft/murder that occurred on the SW corner of Swanston & Collins.

Copying all those tenants' names down, was, no doubt, the death of my project, since, at that time, I knew no difference between a tenant and ... Donald Trump ?

But:

I learnt a great deal- as an eleven year- old- in the process:

I learnt what went on in those big buildings in town

The Melbourne CBD is perhaps the most geometrically perfect in the world (any challengers?) , but the parts of Melbourne that intrigued me were those that defied the grid: for instance:

- when I was a kid, what's now "Le Meredien" Hotel was caked in dust and there were hoboes living in a thick crust in an abandoned dirty ballroom on the eastern side ... and on the west, above the tunnel, which lead out to Winfield Square, my Uncle Harry was hauled up by rope, to the floors above.

And at that time, up there was: Broadbent's Maps.

At the end of this I knew all these alleyways of the city. I could play with my younger brother. On the north side of Flinders St., or of Bourke St., I could walk with him casually, along the street, and then, in a second, disappear. Up an alley I knew about but he'd never anticipate.

Perhaps that's why he had to outdo me. By that time me and my mates (I guess it must have been my inspiration?) were just trying to get to the 12th Floor of the Big Buildings at the time. Sounds pretty tame, but back then you used to have big guys (I guess they didn't get much exercise!) driving the lifts up and down. It was a respectable job, and they didn't like teenagers on the top floor. At least, they didn't like us.

My brother & his friends set their sites on the highest towers of the city -way up above the 12th floor- and achieved it. God knows why the they flew the "skull and crossbones" at the top of the T&G that night ... but they got State TV coverage on Channel 9 (I think). Another time, they did the Manchester Unity as well.

Cogito Ergo Sum.

CML building is (or was) absolutely awesome. Would even do London proud.

That is the best photo I have seen of the Fish Markets ever. I wish that building was still there. It is like the other bookend of Flinders Street to the long Flinders Street Station facade.

Bring back the Fish Markets!

thanks, that was a terrific story Yardmaster, well told. I guess about the time you were doing all that, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers and William Golding were proving that the sometimes genuinely eccentric doings of kids are the stuff of real literature - and i reckon you've got a book in you right there!
bests Bronte

Historic Collins Street in black & white from east end to west end

Part 1

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsAerial.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/Collins1871.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsEastEnd1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/MelbourneClub.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsEast1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/Bourke&Wills.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/1888Exhi-Parade.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsEast2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsLookWest2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/TownHallcnr.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsCentral3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsMarch.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/ArmyParade.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsCentral5.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsCentral4.jpg

Part 2

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CBCbank.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsCentral6.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsandElizabeth.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CML1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsCentral2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsCentral1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsCentral7.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsLookEast.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsWest1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsWest2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/Rialto1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsWest3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FederalCoffee1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/AerialWest1.jpg

A few more black and white postcards this time.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins14.jpg

Unbelievable... nice work Collector!

Six more black and white postcards of Collins Street

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Collins23.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Collins19.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Collins20.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Scots1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Collins24.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Collins25.jpg

Who knocks down these buildings :bleep::bleep::bleep:

Hey Collector, I dug your story on the last page. :) You have provided us all, but especially the younger forumers with an insight that they would never get from skool (sic) at the beauty that a city can hold without towering over itself. Some of my favourite buildings, or at least part of them are now quite old, some famous and some not so.

The church across the road from the little crappy dogbox student apartments in Lonsdale St has an awesome spire and roof construction, the stone is now starting to peel off and it looks quite eiry on a cold dark night from above with the light coming from behind it.

The strength in the walls in the courtyard that was part of OMGaol across the road from concept blue is another awesome feat of construction and is very surreal place that gives you a sense of history.

In the main hall of the old Ex Building, right up in the roof tucked in between the rafters and the roof there is still a few old empty?? bottles, reminding us of the times when many "allus ave wun at eleven" :cheers: :cheers1:

There are squillions of examples of places that different people think highly of, but Collector :okay: has been able to put both pictures and words into a trip down memory/history lane for us all. Thank you. :bow: :master: :applause:

usually I cannot bare to even look at this tread. just look at what we have lost!!

Historic Bourke Street in Black & White

Bourke Street in black and white from east end to west end.

Part 1

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Bourke16a.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/EasternMarket.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/Parer'sCafe.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/BourkeEast1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/BourkePave2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Bourke5.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/Foy's.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Bourke16.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Bourke9.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Bourke14.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Bourke15.jpg

Part 2

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/BourkeProcession1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/BourkePave1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/BourkeCentral1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/BourkeCentral2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Bourke13.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/GPO2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/Bourke1870's.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Bourke3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/StateBank.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Menzies1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Bourke18.jpg

Foys = Mark Foys ('Mark Foy's subway to Museum Station' in Sydney)???

Historic Elizabeth Street in Black & White

Elizabeth Street in black and white from north end to south end

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Elizabeth10.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Elizabeth2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/ElizabethCentral2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Elizabeth8.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Elizabeth1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Elizabeth7.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/ElizabethandBourke.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/ElizabethCentral1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Elizabeth9.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Elizabeth5.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/ElizabethFlood.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Elizabeth6.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/LeonardHouse1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/AusAPA1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Elizabeth4.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FlindersFire1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FlindersWindow.jpg

Historic Spring Street in Black & White

Spring Street from north end to south end

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/AerialNorthEast1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/PrincessTheatre1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CableTram2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Spring4.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/SpringLookWest1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Spring1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Spring3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/Windsor1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Spring2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/TreasuryPlace.jpg

Historic Queen Street in Black & White

Queen Street from north end to south end

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Queen2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Queen3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Queen4.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/QueenLookSouth1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/QueenCentral1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/OrientalBank.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/QueenLookNorth1.jpg

Historic Flinders Street in Black & White

Flinders Street from east end to west end

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FlindersStation1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FlinderStation2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FlinderStat1954.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FlindersFire2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Flinders3a.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FlindersCentral1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Flinders4.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Flinders5.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FishMarket1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/FlindersWest1.jpg

What a complete digrace that the magnificent Fish Markets were pulled down and replaced by an ugly car park for 40 years.
Hopefully the new development will be of a standard to do the site justice.

What a complete digrace that the magnificent Fish Markets were pulled down and replaced by an ugly car park for 40 years.
Hopefully the new development will be of a standard to do the site justice.

Who wouldn't agree with that. :bash:

Historic Swanston Street in Black & White

Swanston Street from north end to south end

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Library2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/QueenVicHos1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Swanston11.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/SwanstonLookSouth1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Swanston13.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/SwanstonSouth2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Swanston7.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/TownHall1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/ArmyParade.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Swanston10.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/1920s-1980s/slides/Swanston12.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Swanston4.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Swanston9.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Swanston8.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Swanston1a.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/SwanstonLookNorth1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/SwanstonLookSouth2.jpg

Who wouldn't agree with that. :bash:

From todays Age.

Old fish market full of tales
January 8, 2005


Flinders Street was a noisy place as hawkers jostled to buy fish. Jewel Topsfield looks back at those days.

The fish market in Flinders Street was a fanciful 19th century palace with ornate turrets and copper spires that resembled witches' hats.

Built in 1890, the building covered 2.3 hectares near Spencer Street and hid part of the railway viaduct. The fish market also featured a huge clock tower that complemented Flinders Street Station to the east.

Dr Bruce Bennett, author of The Fish Markets of Melbourne, said the market operated from 1892 until 1959 and was a hive of activity between 4.30 and 8am.

Chinese hawkers hovered to buy fresh barracouta, crayfish, salmon, whiting and flathead as it arrived on boats that moored at Little Dock, on the other side of Spencer Street and the trains.

The hawkers would then peddle the fish on city street corners or trundle their carts through the suburbs.

"It was quite a colourful scene . . . a furiously noisy place for those hours," Dr Bennett said. "A lot of the fish came on the train and was trundled across Spencer Street on little trolley lines and pushed straight into the fish markets."

According to Andrew Brown-May's Melbourne Street Life, from 1911 business proprietors complained about fish hawkers at the corner of Flinders and Queen streets.


Many cited objectionable smells permeating their buildings, while others criticised the sale of bad fish, barrows swarming with flies, the hawkers' bad language and the refuse left on the road.

Dr Bennett said the Melbourne City Council had to replace the fish market and cool stores in 1958 because the site was needed for the Flinders Street overpass.

"Some people did not like the smell in the city and wanted the fish market moved out," he said. A new site was found in Footscray Road, West Melbourne.

Between 1958 and 1960, in what is now widely regarded as an act of vandalism, the fish market was demolished. All that's left are faded photographs and the wrought-iron gates, now at the entrance to Fawkner Cemetery.

The Flinders Street overpass, spanning King Street, was built in 1961 as part of the construction of Kings Way. It will be demolished before next year's Commonwealth Games.

Fanastic photos Collector.

My design lecturer once said. It wasn't WWII, which destroyed cities. It was 1960s-1970s architecture. Many of the major cities have lost their treasures. Melbourne faired better than Sydney, however by looking at these wonderful photo, it’s so sad we lost quite few beauties. I love looking at these photos, not just because of buildings, but what people were wearing and the transport mode. Quite innovative, consider Melbourne was so far from rest of the world.