Collins Street, Marvellous Melbourne.

Recent photos I’ve taken of Collins Street, east-end to west-end

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsEast1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsEast2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsEast3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsEast4.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsEast5.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/TandG1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/Regent1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsCentral2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinCentral1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/MU1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsCentral3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsCentral4.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsCentral8.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsCentral5.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsWest1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsWest2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsWest7.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsWest3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsWest4.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsWest5.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/Olderfleet1.jpg

Great shots :) Very sharp.

Nice, but using a better resizing algorithm would make them even nicer. :)

very well taken. love Collins st

Great shots :) Very sharp.
:okay:

I'm sure invincible had good intentions about his advice quote: "Nice, but using a better resizing algorithm would make them even nicer. :) "

No! They are truly great as they are!!

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Super pics... Such a beautiful street. with many classic buildings that remain. i get to work there every single day.

Cheers

Dean - Melbourne

there excellent... but is it just me or did they have an over detail look to them . they looked over sharp (i cant get the word im after) my eyes hert lol :cheers: great pics

Thanks all for the positive comments. :)
Resizing will improve in future and as for too much detail,
well we are talking about Collins Street and its Boomstyle buildings!
Nothing more to say. :cool:

Man I miss Melbourne. Its time to return. These pics of Collins Street show the cities class.

Top pics Collector, truly captured the essence of Collins Street.

On a side note, whatever happened to the selling of 171 Collins Street and the approved permit of a 22 story residential, office and retail development on the site?

please delete, double posted :runaway:

only suggestion that i have is that 120 collins should be shot with st michael's church in the foreground, not scot's church. call me a snob, but i'm a purist! :D

only suggestion that i have is that 120 collins should be shot with st michael's church in the foreground, not scot's church. call me a snob, but i'm a purist! :D

I tried that shot, but the angle to get St Michael's in prevented the tower on 120 Collins Street from being visible, while the shot that you see shows both Scot's church spire and 120 Collins tower together. :)
In my opinion, the better shot.

The Paris end has never looked so French with those slick CITADIS trams :-)

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsEast1.jpg

More shots of Collins Street and Citadis trams. :)
http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/Trams/slides/ColSS1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/Trams/slides/ColSS2.jpg

Recent Collins Street additions
Enjoy! :)

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsCentral6.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/OldStockEx1.jpg
Above and below, inside the old Stock Exchange.
http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/OldStockEx2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/ESandA1.jpg
Above and below, inside the old ES & A bank.
http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/ESandA2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsWest9.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/LeMeridien1.jpg
Le Meridien Hotel, inside the old Rialto Buildings.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsWest8.jpg

Great interior shots there. Really classy pics all-round.

holy frak, how'd you swindle the shots inside the bank????????

I've tried once, almost had myself escorted out!

Fantabulous Collector! Look forward to more. 333 Collins St maybe?

Although the Colonial Mutal Life building a few doors down from the ASX was a very sad loss and considered to most amazing building of it's time, IMO this building is the most ornate ever constructed in Australia. It was basically a 'Get Fucked' statement saying 'we got all the money'. The price in 1890 was around 300,000 pounds to construct, fucking lunicy basically in today's money for a 7 storey tower.

There was a story i heard that so much gold leaf was used on the interiores that the powers that be in Britain, actually sailed over to inspect the building to see where the hell all the damn money was going.

Perhaps after the Royal Exhibition Building, it's a building i could look at all day.

Great Pics.

Cheers

Dean - Melbourne

The old stock exchange or ES&A (ANZ)?

Wonderful photos. Thanks Collector. :)

The old stock exchange or ES&A (ANZ)?

It's the same building. Walk in from collins street and straight up the stairs to enter the old trading floor or turn left up the stairs to the banking chambers.

Modifications to William Pitt's original design were made in the 1920's, who designed this building as well as the Melbourne Safe Deposit (1890) which was built at the same time and joins onto the back of the old ASX.

The old trading floor looks like St Pats cathedral, which the huge arches and giant columns. bloody awesome really. Opulance to the max.

You can see that Pitt's high rise designs from the time where no level looks the same as the one below or above.

Look at the Safe Deposit, Rialto, and Olderfleet building's which he designed to see what i mean.

Cheers

Dean - Melbourne

holy frak, how'd you swindle the shots inside the bank????????

I've tried once, almost had myself escorted out!

I walked in, took the shots and
walked straight back out again.
No one tried to stop me. :)

Maybe you just look a bit shifty tayser. :sly: :lol:

By the way Dean, I once was given a guided tour upstairs in the old ES & A bank,
where I was shown the residence of the former manager that had walls all lined with elephant hide.
That is what I call opulence! :eek:

yeah, luv the stock exchange. the lookout tower risies to 49m.
drawing from 1891
http://pictures.slv.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/scandoc.cgi?app=4&folder=4625&doc=1

Well done!

Collins St le Meridien is the most beautiful hotel in Australia.

one of the great corners.cnr Collins & Queen dominated by the 10storey/40m slabs of Prells bldgs. with Gothic bank, and Tokyo bank.

http://img88.echo.cx/img88/1604/prells9ck.jpg

you can see in this view the 49m high turret of Stock Exchange dominating westend of Collins back in 1891. the 5x prell slabs can be seen lined along Queen st south.
http://img224.echo.cx/img224/1452/prellstwo8sq.jpg

Scott's Hotel:
http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/jcollins/0/1/8/im/jc018175.jpg

http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/jcollins/0/1/8/im/jc018176.jpg

Federal Hotel, in very poor condition just before demolition:
http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/jcollins/0/1/8/im/jc018169.jpg

http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/jcollins/0/1/8/im/jc018185.jpg

Queens Walk:

http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/jcollins/0/1/8/im/jc018192.jpg

http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/jcollins/0/1/8/im/jc018191.jpg

http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/pictoria/a/1/4/im/a14262.jpg

Great collection of photos Grollo! :)
I've never actually seen these before, were they from a book, and if so which one?
Just a note, it would have been more appropriate to have them posted in the Historic Collins Street in B & W (pg2) thread in this section instead.
Great finds, nevertheless.

p.s. Sad to have lost all of those great buildings. :(

the last one grollo posted was the PREMIER BUILDINGS built 1887. very early highrise
http://statelibrary.vic.gov.au/miscpics/0/0/5/im/mp005371.jpg


The City of melb Bank was a sad loss. sat cnr Collins/eliz in 1887
http://pictures.slv.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/scandoc.cgi?app=4&folder=2723&doc=1

Yeah I posted them in the wrong thread hehehe. They are from the State Library of Victoria

1962
the then tallest in melbourne @ left-CRA bldg
http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3354433-v.jpg

Part3
Enjoy! :)

The next four down are of Collins Place.
http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsPlace1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsPlace2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsPlace3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsPlace4.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/101Collins1.jpg
Above and below, interior of 101 Collins Street.
http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/101Collins2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsEast6.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/Georges1.jpg
The Georges Building.
Georges was known as the ‘smallest department store’, or ‘the biggest little store’, or even ‘the biggest boutique’.
Sadly the store closed down in the early 1990s and made a brief comeback again in 1998 only to close down again a few years later.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsEast7.jpg

The first thing, I think, that strikes a man who knows the three great modern cities of the world –London, Paris, New York –
and is walking observingly about Melbourne is that Melbourne is made up of curious elements.
There is something of London in her, something of Paris, something of New York, and something of her own.

Francis William Lauderdale Adams 1884

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http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/Regent2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsTowers1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/AusonCol3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsCentral7.jpg
Napier Waller mosaic on Newspaper House.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/333Collins1.jpg
Above and the next four down are of 333 Collins Street.
http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/333Collins2.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/333Collins3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/333Collins4.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/333Collins5.jpg

I'm going to give a collective one finger salute and say I love every single thing about Collins Place.

real dead set 'scraper heritage value.

But...it's beige.

Believe it or not, it's sandstone in colour to match the older sandstone buildings in its vicinity. :)
Collins Place is OK :okay:

Edwardian postcards of Collins Street.
Enjoy! :cool:

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Bird'sEye2.jpg

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

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins7.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins8.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins10.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins11.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins13.jpg

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http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins16.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins17.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins18.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins21.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins22.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins23.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins24.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/postcards/Edwardian/slides/Collins25.jpg

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http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/props/0510/402130510jl1146641248.jpg

More recent shots. :)

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/AlexandraClub1.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/CollinsEast9.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/ESandA3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/OldStockEx3.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/OldStockEx4.jpg

http://www.thecollectormm.com/gallery/photography/City/slides/TempleCourt1.jpg

and you've been busy too! cheers!!

Hey a little trivia.....When Collins Place was first built the hotel was run by Qantas and called Wentworth Melbourne....with a WM stylised insignia....soon it became The Regent for many years and underwent refurbishment..and later managment by Accor as the Sofitel which is still is...there have been a number of extensive refurbishments....ripping out walls and floors, cladings, surface finishes, adding and taking away small areas on the 35th. floor...Le Restaurant gone.etc..etc..but on the ground floor lifts the brass facings are the only thing left dating back to the Wentworth...The last update completely redid the internals but the external facings remain as day one! each still with that hotels insigna WM emblazoned in a repeatative pattern on all lifts. Most people probably don't see the motifs but just a pattern.

A stroll down the east end of Collins Street in 1967.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/CollinsEast1967.jpg

CML building at the north-west corner of Collins and Elizabeth Streets in November 1959.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/Collins1959.jpg

The Regent Theatre and the now demolished Wentworth House in January 1964.

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/Collins1964.jpg

Interesting to see the umbrellas and tables and chairs in Collins ****** already in the 1960s.
Cinerama ( a forerunner to imax) at the Plaza Theatre as well!

many older pics show Neon signs.Back in the late 60's neon signs started to be replaced by box signs, plastic fronts illuminated from within by florescent tubes.....which were very bland compared to neon or bulbs, yet probably more efficient and cheaper to make and run.

Collector, where did you get all of these amazing color late 50's early 60's pics?? They are great quality and show things that I have never seen in color....like the CML building, wow!!

^^ Pics were scanned from Trams and Streetscapes, Metropolitan Melbourne 1950s-1960s and More Trams and Streetscapes, Metropolitan Melbourne 1950s-1960s.
Purchase the books if you want to see more.
Available at The Railfan Shop, located at 40 Market Street (Corner Flinders Lane), Melbourne.
Read about the books here:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=271085

The fairy lights of Collins Street ~ early 1990s. :)

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/Collins30.jpg

Now..now Collector you know in 2007 you call them small lights.

Now..now Collector you know in 2007 you call them small lights.

Are you having me on? Can't they be "twinkle lights" if "fairy" isn't PC ?

heeee hee !

Does Collins street still have the fairy lights? That would look really cool.

I think the problem with lights in the trees is over time the globes blow out and its quite a job to keep it looking in good condition. Years ago the Regent Hotel ( Now Sofitel) forecourt had a circle of trees ( figs ) with massed lights wound right up through branches from the base of the trunks. Thousands of Tourists must have had their pic taken in front of them. After many years if you looked close over half of the globes weren't working till finally they removed them and painted the trunks blue ???......Blue being Sofitel corporate colour and as alternative for the artist ? who wanted to paint trees near the MCG.

Bump! :applause:

The best street in Melbourne without a doubt. :)

The best street in Melbourne without a doubt. :)

duh!