Main Street Stawell looking West across Layzell Street intersection. J Chadwick Drapers sign visible in centre of photo. Patrick Street runs off to the left of the photo behind wooden building the Foresters Hotel . Turf Hotel on left of photo. Horse drawn buggy near centre of photo. Circa 1900's. Same as 6730-2 & 0539 Turf Hotel on left, Forester Hotel on corner of Patrick Street, verandah of D. Fern Hotel / Times Office, McKeller Building. Across Main street in distance is J Allingham Draper, New Union Bank, Chadwick Drapers / Liddiard's , D. Telford Produce, Bank of Victoria, Oriental Bank / O'Driscoll's, J. Punchard furniture, A.B. Clemes, Bennett & Briston, Union Bank Australia, R.W, Dane Grocer on corner of Layzell Street. Same as 6730-2 0539 PostcardMAIN STREET STAWELL - on front stawell businesses streetscape

Commercial Hotel c1960. Upper Main Street Stawell. stawell businesses

Commercial Hotel mid 1970's. Upper Main Street Stawell. stawell businesses

Commercial Hotel Draft Horses Wagon and Barrels 'Carlton United Breweries'. c1980 Upper Main Street Stawell. stawell businesses

Rowland's Commercial Hotel photo 1938. Upper Main Street Stawell. Bank of Australasia.stawell businesses

Commercial Hotel c1980's. Upper Main Street Stawell. stawell businesses

Black and white photo taken 1930's Upper Main Street looking East stawell businesses streetscape

Upper Main Street looking West c1920's. Vehicles and bunting hanging from buildings. Carters Boot shop visible.stawell businesses streetscape

Main Street Stawell looking West from area in front of Bull and Mouth Hotel. Cash store Danes on left. George Mitchell's on right. c1900stawell businesses streetscape

Street scene looking West c1910. Midway down street.stawell businesses

Main Street Stawell April 7 1955 looking West with street decoration . Oliver's Bull and Mouth Hotel on Left. Vehicles on roadstawell businesses streetscape

B/W Main Street looking West. Vehicles angle parked in street. Brick Bull and Mouth Hotel and Dane Bros Wine Spirits Store on left. Coles. George Mitchell & Sons and Norman Harding on right.stawell businesses streetscape

B/W Main Street looking West. Taken from Bull and Mouth Hotel verandah. Vehicles angle parked in street. Town Hall clock tower Coles. George Mitchell & Sons and Norman A Harding on right. 1950'sstawell businesses streetscape

B/W Main Street looking West. Taken from in front of Dane Bros Spirits Bull and Mouth Hotel verandah. Vehicles angle parked in street. Town Hall clock tower Post Office visible. 1940'sstawell businesses

B/W photo of Hotel from Stawell Times News 1-1-1971stawell businesses

Colour photo c1980's of Old Post Office Hotel Building now occupied by a number of shops. Public toilet on right.stawell businesses

Main Street looking East from Wimmera Street up newly closed Mall 1978.stawell businesses streetscape

Main Street looking West from Fountain Area down Gold Reef Mall Shows Rotunda and planter boxes. Bull and Mouth Hotel at left of photo Geo Mitchell at right. C1984stawell businesses, streetscape

Main Street looking East from Wimmera Street up Gold Reef Mall Shows children's playground and Rotunda at left. Bull and Mouth Hotel to left centre of photograph. C1984stawell businesses streetscape

Colour photo of Gold Reef Mall - Looking West (elevated view) Bull and Mouth Hotel at left of Photo.Colour photo of Gold Reef Mall - Upper End looking East (elevated view)stawell businesses main street streetscape, streetscape

Main Street looking East across Wimmera Street c1910 Post Office on left. Horses and carts in street. Three men on roadway.stawell businesses streetscape

Main Street looking East from Wimmera Street up Gold Reef Mall Shows children's playground and Rotunda. C1984stawell businesses, streetscape

Colour photo of Gold Reef Mall - Upper End looking East (elevated view)stawell businesses main street streetscape, streetscape

Main Street looking East across Wimmera Street c1880 Post Office on leftstawell businesses

Main Street Procession East End Circa 1901. Stawell Brass Band plus Constable on Horseback visible. J Chadwick Importer of General Drapery with Boys Clothing on sign on left. Millinery on side of verandah. Commercial Hotel just visible on left. Sloane's & Scotchmans Poppet head Visible in background on right. Poppet Head in background on Big Hill on left is Crown Cross shaft.Croud of people lead by band in upper main street. Chadwick drapers on left. Mounted policeman on horseback in front of Commercial Hotel.stawell businesses streetscape

Main Street Procession c1900 in front of Methodist Church looking East. Constable on Horseback visible. Possibly the Ballarat dragon making the date 1906 or it could be the Chinese See Yup Society Dragon, the head of which is still preserved in their South Melbourne temple. Businesses from left, Carters Boot Shop, Post Office Hotel, G. Mahanke Bakery, J.H. Stabb Stawell Coach Factory, Speedwell Cycles, W.J. Jenkinson Bootmakers, Bone Saddle & Harness Factory, W. Whiteside Taylors. Big Hill is visible in background and possibly the Market Building roof above the G. Mahnke sign. Sop In Trove the only mentions of a Chinese parade at Stawell was for Easter Monday 1906, and this occasion did feature a dragon – the costumes, banners, and dragon appear to have been borrowed from Melbourne, and it is suspected that this was the See Yup Society Dragon, the head of which is still preserved in their South Melbourne temple. At the time that this photo was taken there were only three Chinese communities in Victoria which are now known to have had parade regalia and a dragon – Bendigo, Ballarat, and Melbourne. The Melbourne dragon was the smaller of these, and that seems to match with what you can see in the photo, as does what appears to be a striped horn (frustratingly the pole obscures most of the dragon’s face). All three dragon heads still survive today, as does some of the original parade regalia, but Bendigo’s collection and dragon is the most complete. The remains of the See Yup Society collection have still to be properly studied and conserved. I would also note that if this photo was from Easter Monday 1906 then Bendigo and possibly Ballarat Chinese communities would not have been able to make their dragons available as both would have been preoccupied with their own towns’ Easter festivities. Photo taken from the Town Hall balcony of procession looking towards corner of Wimmera Street stawell businesses streetscape, chinese

C.A. Akins Bookshop Main Street from P.C. News Supplement 1888stawell businesses

J. Chadwick & Co Drapers Main Street from P.C. News Supplement 1888stawell businesses

Crothers & Co Grocer Upper Main Street Stawell from P.C. News Supplement 1888stawell businesses

A. Brown Grocer Wholesale & Retail Produce Merchants Main Street Stawell from P.C. News Supplement 1888stawell businesses