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

View from the Clock Tower looking East up Main Street (1965)streetscape

Main Street Stawell looking east across Wimmera Street near Post Office. Vehicles angle parked in street c1970stawell streetscape

View from Clock Tower looking East up Main Street approx 1962stawell streetscape

Stawell Main Street looking East from Wimmera Street. Post office on left Toy Shop on right Bull & Mouth in Centre. Vehicle entering intersection from left and angle parked in Street. Two people crossing road at centre.stawell streetscape

Stawell Main Street looking East from west of Wimmera Street. Post office on left Post Office Arcade on right. Vehicles in distance.stawell streetscape

Gold Reef Mall Stawell looking West from area in front of L.C. langsford's Pharmacy showing grassed area beside Wimmera Street intersection. Post Office on right old Bank/Chemist building corner of Main and Wimmera Streets near centre and Town Hall in distance.stawell streetscape

B/W Photo looking West. Coles & George Mitchell & Son'sstawell streetscape

B/W Photo of Mall in Main Street looking West. Stawell Club on Rightstawell streetscape

B/W Photo of Main Street looking East. C1930'sSmall Original on Back of Large Print 1920's cars visiblestawell streetscape

Lower Main Street Stawell 1906 Bull and Mouth Hotel. Carters Boot Shop. Main Street looking Weststawell streetscape

Upper Main Street Stawell. Looking East c1910. On left two story Allingham building behind cart is Commercial Hotel. Oriental Bank. Punchard Furniture. Crown Cross Poppet head visible on Big Hill. The side of the Mechanics Institute visible near centre. H S Dawson Chemist. Clarke & Scott Drapery on right. Same as 6730-1 & 2785View along upper Main Street looking East towards Big Hill. Poppet Head in distance at centre.stawell streetscape, mining

T. A. Prydderch Confectioner and S.G. Perry Hairdresser businesses Main Street between Town Hall and Church of England. Now Demolished. Mr. T.A. Prydderch the male with hands in pockets ran this business for many years. later to conduct the Egg Board. Mr. S. Perry conducted his hair dressing business for many years in Stawell. Mr. Parry is the tall gentleman with hands behind his back. The duplicate photo was donated by Meryl Bowers on 7.11.2012. 2012 Site - now occupied by Pyke's Cycles & Pets.Three black and white photographs of two business houses. Parapete fronts with advertising, wooden fronts with display windows. Included in photographic are three males.T.A. Prydderch. Sennitts Ice Cream Confectioner. S.G. Perry. Hairdresser. also written on the back of one of the photos is Stan Perry (Hairdresser) Lower Main St. Stawell above Church of England. from Meryl Bowers stawell businesses streetscape

B/W 1960's Main Street, Town Clock, bank of Australia, Café and Grampians Mountains in background. streetscape

Main Street Stawell c 1940 On left Bike Shop, Carters Boot Shop. On right under town Hall Tower is Stawell Post Office, T. Browns Furniture / Coles / Eales, Geo Mitchell & Sons, Norman A. Harding Men's Wear. J.T. Chaponnel.Main street scene looking west with bunting across street. Many 1940's vehicles in streetboth driving and parked. Delivery truck at centre of image.stawell streetscape

Main Street Stawell c1907 Left is Bull & Mouth Hotel, Playfords, Whiteside & Co Taylors Carters Boot shop. On right Rotunda in distance, T Browns Furniture, George Mitchell, Norman A Harding, W.C. Barker Picture framing. Rose Series P 2725The Rose Series. P. 2725 Main Street, Stawell, Victoria stawell streetscape

B/W photograph of Cyclist Group in Main Street Stawell Shows Town Hall in Background and various shops in background M Maloney Motor & Cycle Depot, H.V.A. Callander Baker, A West, Butchersport, cycling, streetscape

Ruins of Gustav Mahnke’s Bakery Shop Corner of Main Street and Wimmera Street Stawell destroyed by fire 1922. The Chimneys left standing would have belonged to the ovens. Firemen Left R. Chapman - extreme right Alf Pickering , inspecting damage. The Post Office Hotel and the destroyed bakery on the corner of Main and Wimmera Streets. Gustav Mahnke, a German, was a borough Councilor, Mayor for three successive terms - 1904-07. Note extreme right in the backgorundbehind trees - Stawell Baths.B/W. Photograph of the ruins of a burnt building, next to a Hotel with four men.Part of a sign reading "TEL"stawell business streetscape

Main St. looking West from area of Doyle Lane. c1916stawell business 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

Central Park Gardens. T R G Williams of Ararat Postcard No36. View from Grandstand with Palms and C.E. General, store in Main Street in Background. Additional later similar photograph with two men near palm tree. John Straton's Wool Skin Store, Commission Agent, in background, later purchased by N. Godfrey who came from Rupanyup but lived in St. George St. Stawell. Photo from Ivan Hodder in 1988. Note Picket fence. Black & white Post card by photographer T.R.G. Williams Ararat of The Palms Central Park Stawell 36. Note Cypress hedge removed with view of general store across Lower Main St. c1910-1920 Second photograph taken from the same position c1920 - 1930 with 2 gentleman in lower left of photograph. John Straton's wool & skin store visible in background.Photograph by T.R.G. Williams Ararat stawell, streetscape

Main St. looking West from area of Doyle Lane. c1916stawell business streetscape