over several years…more to come!
1920 Row Photographer, State Library of Victoria
H4013 Flinders St East and Princes Bridge, H5012 Princes and Queens Bridge, H3785 Queens Bridge and Flinders St West
A modern view will be added by HiddenMelbourne when we are able to access the tower.
over several years…more to come!
ca1867 Several frames captured from the GPO by Charles Nettleton H838, 840,841, 865, 2489, 23929. Missing frame content visible in AC Cooke's lithograph
1867or later Drawn by AC Cooke from Photographs by Charles Nettleton mp001191 State Library of Victoria
These were created as a lithograph and contain buildings not in the photograph, eg. Independent Church, which has been “virtualised” and is in fact much lower than Scots Church
ca1892 George Washington Wilson, with permission from University of Aberdeen Library
1920 Two frames captured by Row from the GPO with a Cirkut camera H3784, H2581
A modern view will be added by HiddenMelbourne when we are able to access the tower.
Melbourne's oldest surviving building, the original home of Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor, Charles Joseph La Trobe.
Although described by a visitor in 1852 as “small but elegantly furnished and standing in spacious grounds,” La Trobe’s Cottage is now a vital part of Victoria’s history. The cottage was made from prefabricated materials brought from England to be the home of La Trobe, his wife Sophie and their children.
The cottage has been restored and today contains items from the earliest time of Victoria’s settlement. Join us at our next Open Day to learn about life in early Melbourne. Obtain a fascinating glimpse into La Trobe family life at his ‘Jolimont’ estate and enjoy the romantic garden re-created using plants available in the 1840s and 1850s.
Source: National Trust: https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/places/la-trobes-cottage/
Click on the Globe Icons to visit historic places on this map. Come back regularly as more places will be added after research by Hidden Melbourne.
The Melbourne Centenary was a 1934 centennial celebration of the founding of the city of Melbourne, Australia. As Victoria reeled from the severe economic and social fracturing of the Great Depression, its Centenary celebrated progress and community cohesion. Held between October 1934 and June 1935, the Centenary in fact celebrated two ‘foundation' events, firstly commemorating Edward Henty's Portland settlement on 19 November 1834 as the first white settlement in what would later become the state of Victoria, then John Batman's pronouncement of the area upstream of the Yarra River as ‘the place for a village', taken as the city's foundation, on 8 June 1835. Source: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Centenary_of_Melbourne
Three other panoramas have been added to show the view of Melbourne from Flinders Street. We have attributed them all to Robert Vere Scott, active at that time, using a Cirkut Camera to capture wide views.
The dates are not all certain but have been assigned approximately as ca1910 (from the Ball & Welch building balcony?), ca1900 from the East side tower of St Pauls and ca1890 from the west tower. The spires were added in the 1900s.
Click on the year button on the lower right to see the view at that time, which shows the remarkable development of Melbourne. Click on the “View” or “Visit” hotspot flags to be transported through time and space.
2021 Captured by HiddenMelbourne, ca1910 SLV H2006.48 , ca1900 SLV H96.160/1035, ca1890 SLV H96.160/923