1930s Flinders Street StationA view of Flinders Street Station during the 1930s, looking west. The first passenger railway station in Australia was built in Flinders Street and the railway line ran from Melbourne to Sandridge (now known as Port Melbourne), with the first service in 1854. This building was completed in 1909. By 1926 Flinders Street Station was the busiest railway station in the world. All text HotPress Photograph attributed to the Victorian Railways. Notes from

The photo is looking east from the south bank of the Yarra

Cox Brothers took over Georges from 1960-66

Compare this view with a similar one in 1861 here

which was located on the south-west corner of Flinders Street and Swanston Street

A photo of Bendigo from 1874 looking along Mundy Street

with John Toohey  as the first licensee

Garden path lined with classical style statues and various shrubbery

The central panel reads : 'Centenary Year

This photograph is from the early 20th century

but the concourse designed to run along Swanston Street was not constructed to this design

The tawdry set of shops that lie on the west side of Russell Street

although probably closer to 1960) and 1965