1890s Swanston Street Melbourne Panoramas Some interesting facts about "Tooronga"

Some interesting facts about "Tooronga" as reported in the "Argus" (an early Melbourne newspaper) for 29th January 1923

A significant photograph of Number 1 Collins Street

Notes from the State Library tell us that this image is of a "View looking across street to a theatre

surveyed and drawn by Robert Russell (with his signature in the lower right corner)

men standing near underpass of bridge

1890s Swanston Street Melbourne Panoramas Some interesting facts about "Tooronga"A photograph of Swanston Street looking north across Princes Bridge around the 1890s. We can see the earlier Flinders Street Station building on the left, and we know that construction of the new Station started in 1900, so that dates this photograph just at the end of the 19th century. St. Paul's Cathedral was also completed to this point by 1891, so the photograph has to be after that date. On the north side of the Station building is the Princes