1866 Collins Street looking West from Spring Street Melbourne Panoramas The lower half of the

The lower half of the painting shows compositional similarities to an 1841 lithograph of Melbourne by John Adamson

and the refreshment rooms were probably removed around that time

(Click here to see a photo from 1858 of the Falls

the 'Illustrated Australian News' and

1866 Collins Street looking West from Spring Street Melbourne Panoramas The lower half of theCollins Street taken in 1866, looking West from the intersection with Spring Street. Charles Nettleton captured this scene from the newly erected Treasury Building. The first crossroad is Stephen Street, later renamed Exhibition Street. The second crossroad is Russell Street, and you can make out the statue dedicated to Burke and Wills, leaders of the ill fated expedition. In the house on the corner, with the garden, lived Dr Godfrey Howitt. It was