OLD MELBOURNE,
VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA

Swanston Street, Melbourne, Australia in the 1890s

            THE EARLY MELBOURNE RAILWAY SYSTEM

                                                              Wonderful old pictures of past Melbourne

Portrait of a young man in Sandridge Volunteer Fire Brigade

Hobsons Bay and Williamstown, Port Phillip seen from Sandridge, (Port Melbourne) 1850,

Wilhelm Knoll arrived in Port Melbourne, Australia in April 1893 on the steamer "KARLSRUHE" having come by way of the Suez after departing from the German Port of Bremen. He was then aged just 22, though the ship's manifest records his age as 30

Sandridge, Port Melbourne Gas Works 1858

Photograph of Port Melbourne Football team 1910

The Great Iron Store was imported from England as a prefabricated iron building and erected on this site in 1853. Opened as a general store, it was also a meeting place for the residents of Emerald Hill. It was here in 1855, that residents voted to separate Emerald Hill from the City of Melbourne and the first municipal election was held.

Lagoon,Port Melbourne - Old photos of ships at Station Pier, Port Melbourne early 1800's

Horse drawn wagon owned by Port Melbourne City Council

Sandridge Pier 1878

The Pier Hotel, Port Melbourne .Watercolour by W F E Liardet