| Abstract/Description |
154 x 210 mm Taken from the tower of the newly built Town Hall and giving a semi-aerial view looking north along Hoddle Street to Clifton Hill. Starting on the eastern (Abbotsford) side of Hoddle Street, in the foreground is St. Philip's Vicarage (still standing) and St. Philip's Sunday School (with two toilets in the back yard). The next house looks as though a newer brick section has been built on to the front of an older timber dwelling. There is a white horse in the back yard of the two-storey building on the corner of Vere Street. The church on the south side of Vere Street is the Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Chapel. Towards the east in the next cross street, Yarra Street, is the Claremont Hotel, now demolished. Nearby in Park Street is the Victorian Free Church (now demolished), sometimes known as the Free Church of England and Ireland, a secessionist Anglican sect run by a lay preacher, Nathaniel Kinsman. In the distance, beyond Johnston Street, is a large piece of vacant land, originally known as Dight's Paddock, which was not subdivided until the late 1870s/early 1880s. The circular grassed area is Victoria Park. |
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Provide feedback on Collingwood and Abbotsford looking north from the Town Hall