Main St. Scenes looking West from Layzell St. J Chadwick Drapers sign visible. Patrick Street runs off to the left of the photo. Horse drawn buggy in centre of roadway. Circa 1900's. George Whight's shop is visible on right centre.stawell businesses streetscape

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

Main Street Stawell looking east across Wimmera Street to Post Office. Horse Drawn cart at left of Photo. Star Hotel on right in the distance.B/W Photo Main Street looking east with the Post Office on the left. It is interesting to note that the Star Hotel is way out of line it seems to block the street. It was shifted back and is now the Stawell Club.stawell businesses streetscape

Main St. looking West from Doyle Lane. Shows wooden 2 story Bull and Mouth Hotel on left. c 1906stawell business streetscape

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

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

Stawell from top of Town Hall looking at upper Main Street. Gold Reef Mall on left. Post Office Arcade in centre of photo. Stawell Technical School prominent in photo. Town Hall Hotel at right of photo. 1980-1984stawell business streetscape

Stawell Mall looking East from top of town hall in Main Street. Post Office Arcade at right of photo. Stawell Technical School background right of photo. 1980-1984stawell business education streetscape

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

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

View from the Clock Tower looking West down Main Street (1965)streetscape

Stawell Mall looking East from top of town hall in Main Street. Post Office Arcade in centre of photo. Stawell Technical School prominent in photo. 1980-1984stawell business streetscape

Main Street with Closure Warning Sign 1978 from Post Office Corner.stawell business streetscape

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

Athletic Club Memorial Fountain - Gold Reef Mall Main Street Stawell built of Grampians Freestonestawell streetscape

Main Street Procession near Post Office 1918. Soldiers in Uniform WW1stawell world war 1 streetscape

Valentine Series No 1078 Main Street looking East from area in front of Town Hall c1930 Town Hall Hotel Post Office and Post Office Hotel and Bull and Mouth Hotel are visible. Vehicles in street.Valentine Series No. 1078 Main Street Stawellstawell business streetscape

Main Street Procession passing Post Office Circa 1914-18. Band and soldiers marching. World War 1stawell ww1 streetscape

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

Main Street in the Snow 18th July 1949stawell streetscape