1920s Collins Street Fish Market and the city's wide streets

and the city's wide streets allowed the facades to be viewed in all their glory

The magnificent Royal Bank building (with its slightly larger dome) occupies the south-east corner of Collins Street

prepared and published by a real estate company from that period

and then Sutton's store offering the latest in Wertheim's range of pianos

Leavitt's Jubilee history of Victoria and Melbourne (1888) described Parer's as the leading café in the Southern Hemisphere: 'Its wealth of mirrors so fantastically arranged

1920s Collins Street Fish Market and the city's wide streetsA photograph of Collins Street looking east towards the Treasury Building around 1920. We see a busy street, both on the footpaths and on the road. Cable trams, hansom cabs, horse drawn drays, automobiles and pedestrians are all moving in different directions without a single traffic light in sight. At this period, the spectacular architecture of Collins Street had probably reached its zenith. Unfortunately, a lot of the major buildings in Collins