1870 Elizabeth Street Looking North Australians At War this time to Carlton Gardens

this time to Carlton Gardens while Parliament Station was constructed

and Queen's Bridge - which replaced it - was completed in 1889

On the right

On the other side of Collins Street we see the Victoria Buildings with Queen Victoria's statue surmounting the corner

Notes from the State Library tell us that this image is a "Collection of architectural drawings of the new buildings at Flinders Street Railway Station

1870 Elizabeth Street Looking North Australians At War this time to Carlton GardensA photograph looking north from the southern end of Elizabeth Street where it ends at Flinders Street around 1870. A group of men are standing on the footpath, looking like they are waiting to enter one of the establishments. Trading along this block from the left we find the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Co., then Cox the butcher, then Scott's Flowers, H. Gauer the Furrier, Hunt's Full & Plenty Luncheon Room, Osborne's Tobacconist, an Oyster