Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Photographs taken by teacher at Pleasant Creek Training Centre to help train students in living skills and becoming familiar with what shops sold. Part of socializing students for leaving the training centre.Business in Wimmera Street Stawell selling hardware education

Wooden Butcher’s Shop (J. Cock) Main Street Stawell on West side of Town Hall with butchers wearing aprons and horse drawn cart out front. Note sheep carcases hanging out in open air.stawell business

Chaponnel Bush and Allen Butcher’s Shop Main Street Stawell built 1876. Butchers in aprons and horse drawn carts lined up in the street in front Note the Bullocks Head in centre of Parapet. Also Wertheim Sewing Machines on building beside it.stawell business streetscape

Main St. looking East towards Big Hill from Coffee Palace Verandah over Present War Memorial area. 1878 Businesses from left Walters and Son Factory, General Furnishing Mart, Stawell Town Hall, J. & A. Price Wine Spirits & Provision Merchants, Stawell Post Office. On right south side of Main Street, two-storey wooden Bull & Mouth Hotel, Whiteside Taylors, Carters Boot shop, Lecky Draper, C. Mulcahy Post Office Hotel, G.J. Hewlett Baker & Confectionery, Iron Monger, Victoria House Bond Draper, Town Hall Hotel, J. Richards Fancy Repository. Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878stawell business streetscape

Main St. looking West from Doyle Lane. Playford on corner, Whiteside & Co Taylors, Carters Boot Shop. Railway train carriages in distance, Coffee Palace formerly Castlemaine Hotel in distance about centre of photo. Taken c. 1878. , From right of photo T. Brown & Co Timber & Iron Yard, T Brown's Furniture Warehouse, Cambrian Hall, Herbert,s Photographic Studio and Stawell Post Office.Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878stawell business streetscape

Main St. looking East from Post Office 1912. Man on bicycle outside Post Office. On right Post Office Hotel. Picone Dentist. … Beale. C King. Carters Boot Shop. C Kings. shop beside it.stawell businesses streetscape

Business O. Gilpin Drapery shops later part of the Albion Hotel Upper Main Street. G Thurgoods Butcher shop next door on right of photo.stawell business drapery streetscape

A. E. Miller Grocer Longfield Street Stawell with verandah opposite Historical Centre complex. Millers ran the shop from 1908.stawell business

Views of Stawell. INCLUDES view of Main Street looking East showing from right Strangio & Pizione fruit shop. Sun Printing Works. Tea Rooms. King. Carters Boot Shop. Taylor. Bull and Mouth in distance. Car visible. ALSO Main Street Looking West showing from right Norman A Harding Taylor and Outfitter. Geo Mitchell & Sons stawell businesses streetscape

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

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

Sign from top of Charlie Carter’s Grocery Shop - Lamont Street Stawellstawell business

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