1864 Map of MelbournePLEASE NOTE: This is a square print, and the dimensions of this print may require special framing. The sizes that we offer are suitable for a range of IKEA frames. A spectacular map of early Melbourne, from 1864, prepared and published by the British Admiralty. This detailed map shows suburbs, streets, parks, major buildings and every house and structure of the day. All text HotPress Notes from the State Library of Victoria tell us that this is a map

proudly describing themselves as "Fancy Bread and Biscuit Makers"

Flinders Street Station in distance

we only have these photos to remind us of what we have lost

The notes from the State Library tell us that this image is of  "Collins Street looking east"

It has much to show the visitor

the "Ticonderoga" sailed through the heads with almost three hundred people onboard with scarlet fever and typhus

Hanton's butcher shop on the ground floor (with a butcher in a traditional striped apron standing outside the shop on the edge of the pavement)

Confectioner

That image is available here

By that time they had outlived their original purpose and due to the increase in the volume of goods and the corresponding increase in transportation

Clockwise from u

A photo from around 1880