It is a long slog, but that's what we planned for. The old photographers were panorama maniacs, they wanted a wide view. They got on top of every tower and high point in the city to capture the view. This was not as easy as today, they had to carry a lot of gear up towers (read about Walter Woodbury and the Gasworks Tower
Unfortunately some of the plates from those excursions are missing. Hidden Melbourne is very busy filling in those gaps with images captured by other old photographers, and also views captured by us.
This historic panorama captured by Nettleton in 1883 from the roof of the Royal Exhibition Building is an example where we have 3 gaps and cannot locate old images to fill those gaps.
Therefore we have inserted 5 views captured in 2016 from the dome of the REB. You can see these views here:
Southwest View South View Southeast View NorthWest View NorthEast View