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1883 Removing the Falls The Block Arcade taken in 1916

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taken in 1916

Notes from the State Library of Victoria tell us that the image "Shows the Spencer Street tram (actually it is the Spring Street tram)

with the passengers facing out towards the street

Flinders Street around 1909 looking eastward from Spencer Street

a contemporary report in The Australasian Sketcher stated that it 'will be of great benefit to the large audiences which so frequently assemble in this building for concerts

1883 Removing the Falls The Block Arcade taken in 1916A photograph of the Yarra, showing some of the equipment that was used in 1883 to commence the removal of the Falls. (Click here to see a photo from 1858 of the Falls.) The Falls were an ancient basalt ridge (roughly located where Queens Bridge is today) that created a low barrier across the river, that usually stopped the seawater from mixing with the freshwater coming down the Yarra. This was important to the founding of the Settlement in 1835 as it

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