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Details
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:37 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:37
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Details
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"Part of the Melbourne grid plan drawn up by Robert Hoddle in 1837, it was named after Lieutenant-Governor David Collins who had led the unsuccessful 1803 Sorrento settlement."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:37 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:37
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Details
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TLCMap IDtc685a
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:38 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:38
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Details
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"The government kept the block between Market and William streets for the Western Market, established 1841, and the Melbourne Town Hall block on the Swanston Street corner."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:38 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:38
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Details
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"The government kept the block between Market and William streets for the Western Market, established 1841, and the Melbourne Town Hall block on the Swanston Street corner."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:39 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:39
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Details
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"Collins Street"
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:37 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:37
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Details
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"Most activity in the 1830s was to the west of Elizabeth Street where many of Melbourne's merchants had their offices."
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TLCMap IDtc685e
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:39 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:39
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Details
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"The government kept the block between Market and William streets for the Western Market, established 1841, and the Melbourne Town Hall block on the Swanston Street corner."
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TLCMap IDtc685d
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:39 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:39
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Details
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"His store on the corner of Elizabeth and Collins streets was rented from Alexander Brunton, and was known variously as Brunton's or Cashmore's corner."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:40 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:40
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Details
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"His store on the corner of Elizabeth and Collins streets was rented from Alexander Brunton, and was known variously as Brunton's or Cashmore's corner."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:41 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:41
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"Some of the first shops established in Collins Street were draperies, haberdasheries and ironmongers."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:41 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:41
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"In 1855 the Hall of Commerce, a precursor of the Melbourne Stock Exchange, was built between Elizabeth and Queen streets, by this time firmly established as the city's financial centre."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:41 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:41
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Details
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"The Union Bank (1842) on the south-east corner of Collins and Queen streets was the first purpose-built building."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:41 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:41
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"After the discovery of gold, activity in Collins Street grew more intense."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:40 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:40
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Details
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"Melbourne's first bank, an agency of the Derwent Banking Co. , was established on the corner of Collins and Queen streets in 1838, when storekeeper William Rucker 'opened out his books and arranged his bags of coin, and took his station behind a make-shift counter'."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:41 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:41
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Details
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"Melbourne's first Anglican church, St James, was built in William Street between Collins and Bourke streets."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:44 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:44
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"The Melbourne Club and the Mechanics Institute, now the Melbourne Athenaeum, were established in 1838 and 1839 respectively."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:42 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:42
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"The Melbourne Club and the Mechanics Institute, now the Melbourne Athenaeum, were established in 1838 and 1839 respectively."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:42 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:42
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"The Melbourne Club and the Mechanics Institute, now the Melbourne Athenaeum, were established in 1838 and 1839 respectively."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:43 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:43
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:43 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:43
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Details
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"Dr Godfrey Howitt was the first of many doctors and dentists who lived and worked at the east end."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:44 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:44
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:46 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:46
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"Melbourne's first Anglican church, St James, was built in William Street between Collins and Bourke streets."
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TLCMap IDtc686c
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:44 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:44
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"Collins Street was also the location for three other Melbourne institutions of great importance, the Melbourne Town Hall, the Assembly Hall and the Auditorium, which hosted much of Melbourne's musical life."
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TLCMap IDtc686e
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:45 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:45
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Details
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"But perhaps the street's best-known churches are Scots' Church (1874) and St Michael's (1867) , located at the north-east and north-west corners of Collins and Russell streets respectively."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:46 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:46
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Details
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"The original Collins Street Baptist Church, designed by John Gill, opened for worship in 1845."
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TLCMap IDtc686d
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:44 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:44
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"Collins Street was also the location for three other Melbourne institutions of great importance, the Melbourne Town Hall, the Assembly Hall and the Auditorium, which hosted much of Melbourne's musical life."
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TLCMap IDtc6870
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:45 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:45
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"Collins Street was also the location for three other Melbourne institutions of great importance, the Melbourne Town Hall, the Assembly Hall and the Auditorium, which hosted much of Melbourne's musical life."
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TLCMap IDtc686f
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:45 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:45
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Details
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"When the impressionist artists Roberts, McCubbin, Conder and Streeton had their studios at the purpose-built Grosvenor Chambers (1889) at number 9, the area was the centre of Melbourne cultural and business life."
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Created At2025-01-02 16:48:46 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:46
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"At various times the Argus, Age, Herald, Melbourne Punch and the Australasian also had their newspaper offices and printeries there."
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TLCMap IDtc6875
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:47 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:47
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Details
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"When the impressionist artists Roberts, McCubbin, Conder and Streeton had their studios at the purpose-built Grosvenor Chambers (1889) at number 9, the area was the centre of Melbourne cultural and business life."
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TLCMap IDtc6874
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:47 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:47
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Details
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"'The Block' between Elizabeth and Swanston streets was the place to be seen and, when the original Georges was destroyed by a disastrous fire in 1889, the elegant Block Arcade rose in its place."
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TLCMap IDtc6876
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:47 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:47
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Details
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"'The Block' between Elizabeth and Swanston streets was the place to be seen and, when the original Georges was destroyed by a disastrous fire in 1889, the elegant Block Arcade rose in its place."
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TLCMap IDtc6877
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:48 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:48
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Details
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"The Manchester Unity Building at the corner of Swanston Street was a beacon of hope during the great depression, while the new Rialto Towers is renowned for its height and simple elegance."
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TLCMap IDtc687a
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:49 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:49
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"The Manchester Unity Building at the corner of Swanston Street was a beacon of hope during the great depression, while the new Rialto Towers is renowned for its height and simple elegance."
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TLCMap IDtc687b
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:49 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:49
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Details
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"The Oriental, demolished in 1973, was one of many classic Collins Street buildings demolished amid waves of protest in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s."
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TLCMap IDtc687d
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:50 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:50
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"The newly formed Collins Street Defence Movement worked with the National Trust to save Collins Street's heritage, culminating in the establishment of a register of 'protected' historic buildings."
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TLCMap IDtc687c
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:49 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:49
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Details
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"The Manchester Unity Building at the corner of Swanston Street was a beacon of hope during the great depression, while the new Rialto Towers is renowned for its height and simple elegance."
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TLCMap IDtc6878
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:49 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:49
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Details
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"The newly formed Collins Street Defence Movement worked with the National Trust to save Collins Street's heritage, culminating in the establishment of a register of 'protected' historic buildings."
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TLCMap IDtc6879
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:49 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:49
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Details
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"Collins Street remained the centre of Melbourne's financial life."
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TLCMap IDtc687e
Created At2025-01-02 16:48:50 Updated At2025-01-02 16:48:50