1883 Divers Removing the Falls City Baths where overseas goods are held

where overseas goods are held while waiting for customs clearance

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Thomas Hughes

A drawing of Melbourne in 1856

regional Victoria and other parts of Australia) and it opened in 1862

1883 Divers Removing the Falls City Baths where overseas goods are heldA photograph of the Yarra from 1883, showing divers preparing to drill into the Falls, to allow placement of explosives. (Click here to see a photo from 1858 of the Falls.) In 1879 Sir John Coode determined that a number of changes were necessary to the flow of the Yarra River, in order to prevent a repetition of the disastrous floods of 1863 and 1878. One of his recommendations was the removal of "The Falls". Melbourne Harbour Trust were responsible