1867 Elizabeth Street looking south from GPOAn early photo of Elizabeth Street and Melbourne around 1867, looking south from Bourke Street. The photo was taken from the top of the GPO (General Post Office) building which had only just been completed in 1867 on the north east corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets. All text HotPress Photograph attributed to Charles Nettleton. Notes from the State Library tell us that this image is a "Photograph from raised elevation of shops, hotels, residential

policemen directing traffic

approximately 50 kilometres west of Melbourne

along the wreckage strewn ridge of Westhoek

The width of the main streets was fixed at 99 feet

Flinders Street Station as we know it was still 40 years away from being built

depicting a scouting group of the Victorian Mounted Rifles

5     Ground intended for the Governour's House

but are now long gone

especially anything larger than A4

This photograph is by Sir Robert Gibson

and showing Port Phillip Bay beyond the city

titled "View from Queen's Wharf" by the photographer