1874 Queen's Wharf Yarra then Francis Longmore & Co

then Francis Longmore & Co

with the Sandridge Railway Bridge heading straight away from the photographer towards Port Melbourne

the banks and newspaper houses

Hanton's butcher shop on the ground floor (with a butcher in a traditional striped apron standing outside the shop on the edge of the pavement)

Harriet Nathan

1874 Queen's Wharf Yarra then Francis Longmore & CoCharles Bayliss took this beautiful photo in 1874 of the area around Queen's Wharf. This wharf was located on the northern bank of the Yarra River, just south of Flinders Street, at the southern end of William Street. The area around Queen's Wharf was the original landing area in 1835, but it was just a rough and muddy riverbank then, but within a year it had been turned into a workable wharf. At this point in the Yarra there was a naturally wide