1910c Collins Street looking westA photo from around 1910 looking west along Collins Street, over Swanston Street. The building on the left is the Victoria Building, built in 1888 and demolished around 1966 to make way for the City Square. The Town Hall is out of picture to the right of the trees. The statue of Mercury is on top of "The Age" building. The first dome belongs to the Royal Bank, situated on the south east corner of Collins and Elizabeth, and the second dome sits atop

Very detailed rendering of the activity around Queen's Wharf in 1864

the spires of the Independent and Scots' Churches in Collins Street

It shows cable trams in both streets

all of the fish sales were conducted in the old Fish Market (1865-1901) on the south-west corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets

The area south of the viaduct was then occupied by a number of wharves that had been an essential part of Melbourne's history

most of the buildings seen here have survived

parks and major buildings of the day

The British design features Lord Kitchener

Notes from the State Library state that this is an "Panoramic view showing Yarra River with sailing ships and steamships moored at wharfs

and the tent of surveyor WW Darke

between Lonsdale and Little Bourke would define that area well into the middle of the 20th century

and after a decade or so of suggestions and options in the 1860s