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1. Melbourne at Night
Melbourne’s city skyline at night, featuring ferries moored in the Yarra River. This was one of the most beautiful city views of Melbourne before the building of Federation Square.
(This view no longer exists)
Photographed: 1990
2. Arts Centre
Showing the Arts Centre’s brightly lit ‘Eiffel Tower’ like spire, with Melbourne Concert Hall and Melbourne’s official Coat of Arms on a lamp post.
Photographed: 1997
3. National Gallery of Victoria ‘Angel’
The NGV is the best art gallery in the Southern Hemisphere and suspended above the outside moat there was the sculpture ‘Angel’ by Deborah Halpern. The gallery was designed by Sir Roy Grounds and was completed in 1968.
(This view no longer exists)
Photographed: 1996
4. Melbourne at Night ‘Princes Bridge’
Melbourne skyline at night from the Princes Bridge, which was re-built in 1886 to replace the single span bridge which was completed in the 1850’s. The spires of St. Paul’s Cathedral are in the background.
(This view no longer exists)
Photographed: 1993
5. Melbourne at Night
Melbourne skyline at night, featuring the cityscape background, and viewed up the lit, tree-lined Yarra Promenade. Looking eastward from King Street overpass near the Crown Casino.
Photographed: 1998
6. Melbourne Skyline
The Melbourne Skyline on a fine and sunny afternoon, looking westward across Gordon Reserve.
Photographed: 1993
7. Princes Walk
Princes Walk featuring gum trees on the Yarra riverbank with Southbank in the background.
Photographed: 1997
8. The New Exhibition Centre
The New Exhibition Centre was completed in 1996 and features the city skyline and Flinders Street Station tower in the background.
Photographed: 1996
9. Flinders Street Station
The world famous Flinders Street Station was built in 1909. Agreat Edwardian building and once of the world’s busiest, it was designed in the Free Classical style with strong French Baroque influences.
Photographed: 1998
10. Block Arcade ‘Window Shopping’
The Block Arcade was built in 1890 and was inspired by Milan’s ‘Galleria Vittoria’. In the distance there is a woman window shopping.
Photographed: 1996
11. Block Arcade ‘Princess Diana Memorial’
The Block Arcade, featuring the central dome and a floral memorial tribute to Diana, ‘Princess of Wales’.
Photographed: 1996
12. Block Place
Block Place is a lane linking the Block Arcade to Little Collins Street and shows some of the first attempts at outside dining in Melbourne.
(This view no longer exists)
Photographed: 1996
13. The Melbourne Town Hall Portico
Melbourne’s present Town Hall was opened in 1870, but the portico, in the High Renaissance style, was not added until 1887.
Photographed: 1999
14. The Original City Square
The Original City Square with the Melbourne Town Hall in the background. This city square was opened by Queen Elizabeth 11 in 1980.
(This view no longer exists)
Photographed: 1997
15. Scots Church
Scots Church, a Gothic Revival cathedral was built in 1873-74 by David Mitchell, the father of the world famous opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba.
Photographed: 1995
16. Parliament House Portico
The Victorian Parliament House portico was the last part of the building to be completed. The Doric columns replicate the Mausoleum at Halicarnassos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, in Asia-Minor.
Photographed: 1998
17. Princess Theatre ‘Le Miserables’
Princess Theatre through the Doric columns of Parliament House featuring a poor street girl urchin from the ‘Le Miserables’ poster. The Princess Theatre is one of Melbourne’s oldest and grandest theatres and was completed in 1887.
Photographed: 1997
18. The Treasury Building
The Treasury Building from Gordon Reserve in Spring Street. Built in the Italian Renaissance style, the Victorian Treasury Building is one of the finest classical public buildings in Australia and was completed in 1862.
Photographed: 1999
19. ‘Church and State’
Looking eastward from the city alongside the Parliament House fence toward St.Patrick’s Cathedral’s spires in the distance. This Cathedral was completed in 1897, but still lacked its magnificent spires which were not added until 1936 and is the largest cathedral in Australia.
Photographed: 1996
20. The Victorian State Parliment Gardens
These gardens are dominated by a Himalayan cedar and beyond is the Windsor Hotel. Formally known as the Grand Hotel, it was built in 1883 and still serves traditional afternoon tea.
Photographed: 2000
21. Southbank Footbridge
Southbank Footbridge with a river ferry passing beneath and featuring Southbank in the background.
Photographed: 1999
22. Flinders Walk
View of Southbank at sunset from Flinders Walk, with a gondola on the Yarra River.
Photographed: 1997
23. The Crown Tower
The Crown Casino tower, including the Melbourne Entertainment Centre was completed in 1996 and features the Yarra Promenade and the Yarra River in the foreground.
(This view no longer exists)
Photographed: 1998
24. The Yarra River
The Yarra River, looking northwards to the city skyline - a view from Southbank with a speedboat approaching as it heads upstream.
Photographed: 1996
25. Southbank Promenade
Southbank Promenade featuring people strolling during a late Sunday afternoon.
Photographed: 1997
26. Yarra Promenade ‘Southbank’
Melbourne cityscape featuring the Yarra Promenade from the southside of the Yarra River, with daily commuters citybound on their way to work.
Photographed: 1992
27. Queen Victoria Garden ‘Phoenix’
‘Phoenix’ a sculpture by Baroness Yrsa Von Leistner, was a gift to the people of Melbourne for the 1976 World Ecumenical Council and is prominently displayed lakeside in the Queen Victoria Gardens.
Photographed: 1999
28. The Queen Victoria Gardens
This view of the Queen Victoria Gardens is dominated by a giant European plane tree and in the background is a poolside monument to Queen Victoria, the most magnificent in Australia.
Photographed: 1997
29. MacPherson Robertson Fountain ‘Boy with a Fish’
The MacPherson Robertson Fountain, ‘Boy with a Fish’ is one of Melbourne’s prettiest Art Deco sculptures. Created by world acclaimed sculptor Paul Ponsford, it was completed in 1934 to celebrate Victoria’s first one hundred years.
Photographed: 1998
30. The Shrine of Remembrance ‘Anzac Day’
The Shrine of Rememberance is constructed of granite, freestone and marble and was built from 1927-34. Astriking world famous Art Deco monument, it was dedicated to all the Australian and New Zealand troops who died in the First World War.
Photographed: 1997
31. The Shrine of Remembrance
At the height of the Great Depression, Sir John Monash, Australia’s greatest ever general, commissioned thousands of the unemployed to construct the hill for this mausoleum, featuring Athena, the Goddess of Battle, amongst other things.
Photographed: 1997
32. The Royal Botanic Gardens
The Royal Botanic Gardens, featuring the main lake, with Government House in the background. Alongside the Kew Gardens of London, these gardens are considered one of the greatest botanic gardens in the world.
Photographed: 1996
33. The Royal Botanic Gardens
The Royal Botanic Gardens features numerous lakes. They were established by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller in the 1850’s. His exotic botanical collection was the inspiration for the great landscape architect William Guilfoyle to create one of the greatest botanic gardens in the world.
Photographed: 1998
34. The Royal Exhibition Building
The Royal Exhibition Building is the oldest and totally intact example of a ‘Palace of Industry’ from the 19th Century International Exhibition movement. It held two such exhibitions in 1880 and 1888 and received a Class AWorld Heritage listing in 2004.
Photographed: 2000
35. Carlton Gardens
The Carlton Gardens established in 1857, cover over 16 hectares. Regarded as one of Australia’s finest 19th Century classically designed public gardens, in the background is a view of the Royal Exhibition Building on an early misty morning.
Photographed: 1996
36. Como House
Como House is a magnificent example of fine early Victorian architecture. It is sometimes described as one of Melbourne’s best known ‘little palaces’ and lies nestled on a South Yarra hill overlooking the Yarra River.
Photographed: 2000
37. Skipping Girl Neon Sign
‘Little Audrey’, the ‘Skipping Girl’ neon sign, will one day become, minus the lettering one of Melbourne’s major tourist attractions and given a place of honour in the city.
(This view no longer exists)
Photographed: 1995
38. Xavier College Chapel
Xavier College Memorial Chapel was completed during the 1920’s, and is one of the most magnificent school chapels anywhere in Australia. Xavier College was founded in 1878 by the Jesuit Order of the Catholic Church.
Photographed: 2000
39. Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens
The Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens were founded in 1862 and are regarded as one of the top five zoos in the world. As part of the international breeding program for Rothschild giraffes, the zoo was rewarded with the birth of a new baby giraffe.
Photographed: 1995
40. St.Kilda City Hall
Built in the late American neo-Classical style, this Town Hall is almost unlike any other in Melbourne, which are almost exclusively High Victorian in style.
Photographed: 1998
41. Luna Park
St.Kilda’s Luna Park ‘Just for Fun’, was opened in 1912 by two American entrepreneurs and features the famous entrance modelled on a similar fun park at Cony Island in New York. (This façade no longer exists)
Photographed: 1992
42. St.Kilda O‘Donell Gardens
St.Kilda O’Donell Gardens, featuring the beautiful classic Art Deco memorial to Lieut. J.M.Barnett, who accompanied Sir Keith and Sir Ross Smith on the first air flight from England to Australia in 1919.
Photographed: 1999
43. The St Kilda Pedestrian Overpass
The St Kilda overpass and beyond a statue of Captain Cook and the St Kilda pierhouse.
Photographed: 1998
44. St.Kilda Beachside Ride
St.Kilda beachside ride on a Sunday afternoon outside the Stokehouse restaurant, featuring St Kilda pier in the distance.
Photographed: 1999
45. Port Phillip Bay
Port Phillip Bay from St.Kilda beach on a late and storm-foreboding afternoon.
Photographed: 1995
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