1930c Collins Street - The BlockA photo of 280 286 Collins Street, showing the southern facade of "The Block", around 1930. The Block building includes a beautiful arcade that bends around and exits into Elizabeth Street. The Collins St Block building (shown in this photo) was completed by February 1892. The Elizabeth Block building was completed the year after. Joining the two buildings is the L shaped Block Arcade one of the most beautiful arcades in the Southern Hemisphere. The

using a mammoth camera which took glass plates measuring 18 x 22 inches (46 x 56 cm)

coloured to represent the materials to be used as described in the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways dated 1/10/1900

Conway Grocer on the south-east

Published by MMTB (Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board) in 1935

The two buildings on the left of the image are still there

Across the Yarra River

situated where the Regent Theatre stands today

looking south from Bourke Street

Mr Paterson was Mayor of Melbourne in 1876-1877 and seemed like the sort of guy that we need around today

Under the image is a legend showing 47 of the city's major buildings or landmarks

The notes from the State Library tell us that this image is a "Photograph of Elizabeth Street

Victoria was in the middle of a major gold rush and Victoria's population had grown from 75