1874 Flinders Street looking West The Block Arcade automobiles and pedestrians are all

automobiles and pedestrians are all moving in different directions

and land boom speculator and politician B

The first Exhibition Building (1854-1869) can be seen

Photograph attributed to Charles Rudd

A photograph from 1875 of Melbourne looking North East across to Fitzroy

1874 Flinders Street looking West The Block Arcade automobiles and pedestrians are allA photo from 1874 looking west along Flinders Street from the intersection with Swanston Street. The famous Prince's Bridge Hotel on the far right was originally built as a three storey bluestone residence in 1853, with butcher James Graham's shop on the ground floor, and a young ladies school run upstairs by a Mrs Nicole Cook. The block of land that this building is on was originally purchased by John Batman in 1837 for 100, during the first land