1865 Collins Street looking West over William Street AC Cooke hotels - Rigby's Council Club

hotels - Rigby's Council Club Family Hotel

which was first introduced into the Australian military uniform when the Victorian Mounted Rifles was formed in 1885

later renamed Batman Avenue in 1913

The Old White Hart Hotel seen in the 1858 photograph here

and the countryside around Melbourne and Victoria

1865 Collins Street looking West over William Street AC Cooke hotels - Rigby's Council ClubCollins Street taken in 1865, looking West from the intersection with William Street. The block of land on the left corner (numbered 100 Collins Street West) was known as Batman's Corner, due to the prior ownership by John Batman. Batman built the two storey building shown here before 1839 (most probably updated since 1839), which was claimed to be Melbourne's first brick building. This site was later occupied by a substantial building for the