1885 Collins Street - Equitable Co-operative Society Building (later Georges) Australia Maps Once St Kilda Road leaves

Once St Kilda Road leaves Princes Bridge it widens into the grand boulevard that continues all the way to St Kilda Junction

In upper right margin: Report on disposal of colonial lands-1836

Its position directly above a waterfall caused some damage from corrosion

a new location for the Fish Market was built at the western end of Flinders Street

Queen's Wharf is the earliest wharf in Melbourne and came about because it was the northern bank of the Turning Basin and just south of Flinders Street

1885 Collins Street - Equitable Co-operative Society Building (later Georges) Australia Maps Once St Kilda Road leavesThis iconic building known by most as "Georges" was originally built for the Equitable Co operative Society in 1883. Designed by architects John Grainger and Charles D'Ebro and built on land owned by Scots' Church, the new building was constructed in classical revival style in 1883 by David Mitchell for the Equitable Co operative Society Ltd. (See it as it was when it became "Georges".) The society soon went bankrupt, and land boom speculator and