1866 Collins Street looking West from Spring Street Melbourne Panoramas and the refreshment rooms were

and the refreshment rooms were probably removed around that time

used the Falls as a way of crossing from one side of the river to the other

showing the involvement and contribution of some of the British Commonwealth nations

East Melbourne

(Click here to see a photo from 1858 of the Falls

1866 Collins Street looking West from Spring Street Melbourne Panoramas and the refreshment rooms wereCollins Street taken in 1866, looking West from the intersection with Spring Street. Charles Nettleton captured this scene from the newly erected Treasury Building. The first crossroad is Stephen Street, later renamed Exhibition Street. The second crossroad is Russell Street, and you can make out the statue dedicated to Burke and Wills, leaders of the ill fated expedition. In the house on the corner, with the garden, lived Dr Godfrey Howitt. It was