1880 Exhibition BuildingA charming image of the Exhibition Building not long after it was completed in 1880. The Exhibition Building was opened in 1880 for the Melbourne International Exhibition. It attracted more than 1. 3 million visitors over eight months. The subsequent Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition of 1888 was even larger; temporary annexes were constructed from the building to the northern boundary of Carlton Gardens. All text HotPress Photograph

which were usually closed

It fulfils the requirements of a successful war poster with its simple image and direct appeal

The old Fish Market was removed to make way for the new Flinders Street Railway Station

Batman Avenue was relocated to the east of Birrarung Marr and now runs from Swan Street and joins the southern end of Exhibition Street

with architect Peter Kerr involved in both phases

asking unenlisted men to "Remember Belgium" and to enlist today

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

An early photograph of the Law Courts taken in the 1880s

acting Lieutenant John Murray commanding HMS Lady Nelson entered the Bay on the 14th February 1802 and named it Port King in honour of the Governor of New South Wales at the time

and the premises of R

Flinders Street around 1909 looking eastward from Spencer Street

and the bridge (see photo below) was removed along with the Falls themselves in 1883