Old photos of Melbourne and suburbs

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Hampshire Road, Sunshine 1911

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Russell St, Melbourne, early 1870s

Looking sth along the west side from Lonsdale St.

That's Loel Harris, pawnbroker with the aggressive marketing on the corner site.

Boyes Bros Ironmongers is at #153,

and the original 3 storey Exford Hotel can be made out at Lt Bourke St (built 1854, rebuilt 1913).

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Flinders Street station Melbourne 1930. Not a woman in sight.

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Aerial photo of Deer Park 1945.

Development north of Ballarat Rd had not yet started.

Photo source. Melbourne University Map Collection.

1945 photo-maps of Melbourne were produced by the Victorian Department of Lands and Survey from aerial photography taken by Adastra Airways in 1945.

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1960s aerial as it shows the site of the Tottenham Hotel before it was built and the surrounding area.

Monsanto in the foreground and all the quarries including the one where the Totty will be built.

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Victorian railways map

The Tottenham-Brooklyn-Newport-Maribrynong area 1960s-80s

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This photo, taken in 1956, captures a woman hauling water along Griffen Crescent toward the Woodman house—a reminder that not every home in North Melbourne had running water yet.

(Source: Herald Sun Image Library / ARGUS)

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Hampshire Road Sunshine Victoria 1911. Looking north from the near the rail line

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Rickett’s Beach, Beaumaris, on Port Phillip Bay, in the mid-1930s.

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Beatles Australian Tour 1964.

Advertisement for the Southern Cross Hotel from the Official Souvenir Program.

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Built in 1841 by Dr Farquhar MacCrae, brother-in-law of the diarist and artist Georgiana MacCrae, it was occupied for most of the 1840s by that legal luminary Redmond (later Sir Redmond) Barry until Dr Arthur O’Mullane bought it in 1852 and set up his practice there.

Later it was used by the Cameron Tobacco Factory and then by the Metropolitan Mission

Bourke St west not far from the corner of William St

1915 just before it was demolished

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Morgan's street directory map of Altona ?date

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Flood waters Nellie Street Altona 1963. Name changed to Civic Pde

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Sunshine Post Office 1917.

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Route of explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell in 1824 from NSW to what is now Victoria, they camped in the Keilor Plains near where Taylors Rd and Sydenham Rd now intersect

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Altona north subdivision showing residual lots of the original farm land William Cherry bought from the Crown in 1859.

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St Kilda, formerly High Street, back in 1870–1875 and was renamed as part of St Kilda Road.