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A group of 20 girls and 23 boys who look about 6 or 7 years old, with their female teacher who looks about 16. Most of the girls wear large lacy collars and smock dresses and some wear lacy pinafores. A few wear boots but most have court shoes with instep straps. The boys wear a grand variety of collars ranging from very stiff upright ones to large and lacy. Content of image: Hocking Source of image: Hocking family Address: Cambridge Street schools - collingwood primary (cambridge street)
1906 A class photo at Cambridge Street primary school
Sixteen children climbing on tyres, posts and chains in the playground at Cambridge Street Primary with the school and factories in the background. About half look like the children of migrants. By this date this had become a school with one of the smallest enrolments in Melbourne and was in some danger of being closed. Content of image: Collingwood Primary School (Cambridge Street) Address: Cambridge Street schools - collingwood primary
1980s Cambridge Street primary school children at play
A married couple in late middle age are photographed on the verandah of their double-fronted bi-chrome brick house in Gipps Street, next door to the Royal George Hotel. The hotel, this house, and the one next door were in the area now taken up by the wider Hoddle Street. This house is unusual in the depth it is set back from the front fence, although the owners were obviously not keen enough on gardening to make any interesting use of the space, limiting their horticultural efforts to two narrow beds in front of the verandah and lawn on either side of the gravel path. Various members of the Beard family lived in the three houses in Gipps Street between the hotel and the bakery, and other houses just around the corner in Hoddle Street, for many years. Source of image: Original held by Beard family Address: 139 Gipps Street families - beard
A woman walks along the lane running between Gipps Street and Stanton Street next to Carringbush Library. Tumbledown back fences of Hoddle Street properties contrast with the Town Hall tower rising in the background. Source of image: A. D. Wilson Series: Collingwood Bicentennial Photographic Competition views - abbotsford
A woman pegs out the washing in a Clifton Hill back garden, watched by a small child in a push chair.
Two storey bluestone and brick building in Bond Street Abbotsford, originally a Common School, and later Bates Cocoa Mills whose sign it still retains.
Either a touched-up photo or an artist's impression of the Coles store at 288 Smith Street. It was a small shop, single storey, with a central doorway set back between two display windows. Content of image: Coles Source of image: Unknown Address: Smith Street
Inside the School Hall next to the church, clothing is laid out on pews with signs such as 'Children's 3d', 'Men's 1d', 'Women's 1d'. The hall is full of people, mainly women with a few men and children. This church was the relief centre for the Collingwood Methodist Mission and gave clothes and food to the needy, especially during the 1930s Depression. Goods could be sent free of charge by rail to the Collingwood or Victoria Park stations. It is not clear whether this photo shows this sort of relief work as it would not be usual to charge for the clothes. Content of image: Collingwood Methodist Mission ; Gipps Street Methodist Church Source of image: Freeman welfare services churches - gipps street methodist church
A group of Dight Street tenants setting off in a mini bus with a large banner reading 'Better public housing makes better sense! Dight Street Estate Tenants Association'. Content of image: Dight Street Housing Estate ; Housing Commission of Victoria Source of image: The Melbourne Times resident action housing - dight street estate
An artist's impression of John Dight's flour mill on the Yarra River, showing a rather idealized view with various men strolling or talking or riding on horseback and goats grazing in the foreground. Content of image: Dight, John industries - flour mills - dight's mill
1857 Dight's Mill in Yarra Yarra
A lovely photo of the town hall under construction with dozens of workmen posed on the footpath, on scaffolding and on the top of the building. Every workman wears a hat and some wear aprons. The rendering on most of the building has been completed but the tower is still bare brick. The whole building is covered in scaffolding and a fence at footpath level prevents illegal access to the site. Hoddle Street appears to be a sea of mud; Stanton Street was probably not yet in existence. Content of image: Collingwood Town Hall Address: Hoddle Street town hall
1886 Work in progress on the town hall
A group of about forty men in suits pose for the camera at the opening ceremony on a sunny February day. A foundation stone or plaque is supported by a block and tackle and some workmen look through the door. An Australian flag hangs from the first floor. Content of image: Yarra Falls Ltd Address: Johnston Street spinning mills industries - spinning mills - yarra falls ltd
20/Feb/1919 Yarra Falls opening ceremony
Collingwood footballer and captain Syd Coventry is carried from the finals field by the Collingwood trainers, elated at the team's third successive premiership. Half-forward L. Murphy is also in the photo. Content of image: Coventry, Syd ; Murphy, L. Source of image: 'The Sun' 30 Sep 1929 australian rules football
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