1865 Yarra from South Bank Spring Street as the Government had allocated

as the Government had allocated a site for a future Hospital in St Kilda Road

Leavitt's Jubilee history of Victoria and Melbourne (1888) described Parer's as the leading café in the Southern Hemisphere: 'Its wealth of mirrors so fantastically arranged

with mines in the foreground and Eaglehawk in the background

later Atheneaum) on the north-side of Collins Street

Batman chose well

1865 Yarra from South Bank Spring Street as the Government had allocatedThis amazing image captures the state of the Yarra's south bank around 1865. The collection of ships, boats, hulks, and dinghys in this small pocket of the river highlights the conditions and industries of that time in that area. We can see a couple of men working their way through a scrapyard of discarded maritime junk, just to the west of The Falls. This looks like a cemetery for old boats. Over on the right we can see Batman's Hill with a small