1906 Flinders Street and Queens Bridge Panorama Melbourne 1880-1900 cable trams

cable trams

The Corporation Market Building (also known as the Fish Market

Post Office 26

and Scots' Church Steeple

shows the dredge "Griper" going about its work of clearing the build up of silt and soil from the Yarra River

1906 Flinders Street and Queens Bridge Panorama Melbourne 1880-1900 cable tramsA beautiful panorama of Melbourne taken in 1906, with Flinders Street in the foreground, looking across the Yarra and Queens Bridge. On the far left, the new Flinders Street Station is partially completed and will be finished in 1910. Queens Bridge had only been completed in 1890, and provided a new river crossing for rapidly growing Melbourne. All text HotPress Photograph attributed to Exchange Studios. Notes from the State Library state that this is