1935 Advertising Calendar P. E. Gilbert. Gilberts Furniture Arcade Main Street Stawell. Shows Peter Pan winning the 1934 Melbourne Cup and Archer the 1862 Cupstawell

Stawell Athletic Club Members 1938 Mechanics Institute Main Street Stawellstawell sport

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

Sepia Photo of Savings Bank Upper Main Street Stawell. First opened in 1880. Note the decorative Gas Fired street lamp. stawell

Wedding Bridal party and family in front of Phillips House lower main street.stawell houses

C. Hunt’s General Store upper main street with two men standing out front with aprons.stawell business

Primary School 502 “Back to School” 1922 group of people in fancy dress. In front of Commercial Hotel and Bank of Australasia Main Street StawellB/W photo of a group of People all in fancy dress, in front of Commercial Hotelstawell education

Town Hall Tower & Clock Opening 1939. Group of people in front of Town Hall Main Streetstawell

Staff in front of Stawell Pleasant Creek News Newspaper Office 191 Main Street Stawell. NE Corner of Main Street and Layzell Street stawell

Stawell Cycle Club in front of Slattery's Railway Hotel Lower Main Street Stawell 1931 or 1936stawell railway hotel

First floor view from corner of Main & Patrick Streets looking East down Patrick Street. Weatherboard Foresters Hotel in Main Street on left corner. Businesses visible down Patrick street, Foresters Hotel, J.H. Wallis Royal Exchange Hotel on Big Hillside of Street. With St Patrick's church tower visible in distance. Melbourne Cash Store Wines and Spirits on corner of Patrick and Sloane Street near centre of photo. Ferns Hotel / Times office on right of photo, corner of Patrick and Main Street. Post Box on Corner at right of photo. 1878First floor view from Main Street Patrick Street intersection looking down Patrick Street. Foresters Hotel on left. Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878stawell businesses streetscape

Main Street near Post Office. Gentlemen on sidewalk outside Chemist on the corner which is mainly hidden by J Porch Drapers sign and verandah.stawell businesses streetscape

Photo taken in Patrick Street near St Patrick's Church from Upper Clemes Street looking towards Main Street. 1878. Byrne's Rock of Cashel Hotel on right of photograph, two storey brick building is J. Walker Victoria Bakery on left in Patrick Street.Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878stawell businesses streetscape

Main Street Barnes and Scallan Streets intersection looking towards cemetery. H Crouch Undertaker on corner. Primary School 502 obscured by trees. 1880'sVictorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878stawell cemetry road

Upper Main Street looking West from Mechanics Institute built in 1875. Mechanics Institute, Joseph Dawe Stawell Meat Market, D.B. O'Callaghan, Boot & Shoe Warehouse, Stawell Potato Depot, Ben S. Dawson Chemist, R.H. Wadsworth Jewler Watchmaker, English Scottish & Australian Bank, Bone Saddler, Hunter Bull & Mouth Hotel. On North side of street is J. Allingham Draper, Chadwick & Co Draper, D. Telford Farm Produce, Bank of Victoria. Photo taken 1878The "Top End" of Main Street. looking west. The Mechanics Insitute on the Left dates the photo about 1880. Some of the larger buildings have been restored.Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878stawell business streetscape

Central Main Street looking West. Large brick building on right later occupied by Coles Fosseys and Lyal Ealesstawell business streetscape

Corner of Main & Wimmera Streets looking West. 1878. Union Hotel or Coffee Palace formerly Castlemaine Hotel , Stawell Town Hall, Grocer, A. Brown Wholesale Retail, McAlpine Tinsmith Plumber, J. Porch Draper, Chemist, Methodist Church roofline. Stawell Post Office, Akins Seedsman and Stationer.Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878stawell business streetscape

Lower Main Street looking West towards the Unicorn Hotel later the Coffee Palace. c1882 formerly the Castlemaine Hotel and before then the Royal Hotel. Bullock wagons and horse drawn buggies in street. Railway Goods Shed and Railway Station and Church of Christ visible in distance. Anglican Church roof on right, J & A Price Grocer and Spirit Merchants.Victorian Views. C. Herbert, Photo. Stawell 1878stawell business streetscape

Main Street Celebrations for unknown occasion . Early model cars and horse drawn transport possibly 1900-1910.stawell streetscape

Main Street from front of Town Hall looking East. Mr Richard Miller on ladder to the gas light on left of photo. After 1901 Acetylene Gas lamps were installed in Main Street. Benzene lamps were used for some years. A lamplighter was employed from 1913.B/W Photo With Mr Richard Miller lighting the light on the left and the Town Hall on the Rightstawell streetscape

Upper Main Street east of Patrick street, looking East c 1867 with Big Hill Mining in Background. J McGee's Shamrock Hotel. Jennings Western Turf Hotel. R Lorimer & Co. Photo c 1867 McGees Shamrock Hotel centre. R. Williams Dining Rooms, Jennings's Western Turf Hotel. Situated in upper Main Street (Opposite Monaghan's Estate Office) Mr. George Jennings was proprietor until the late 1860's when he went to live at "Mayo Park" Lubek. The Hotel had Various owners until it was delicensed in 1909 and became a boarding house. It was demolished in 1921. R. Lorimer & Co general Store near corner of Patrick Street.Streetscape of South Side of Main Street East of Patrick Street. Two wagons in street. Showing J. McGees Shamrock Hotel, R Williams Dining Rooms, Jennings's Western Turf Hotel and R. Lorimer & Co. Mine Engine Chimney is on left of photo. Big Hill in Background with Waterloo Reef Company Whim at centre.stawell streetscape

Stawell from Big Hill looking west with Main Street visible and with mining in foreground 1872stawell

Upper Main Street looking East c 1930. Two Story shop on left behind O. Gilpin is Chadwicks Draper later partially destroyed by fire. Some buildings not visible, Commercial Hotel then Oriental Bank / The Bank Australasia in Centre of Photo, Punchard's Furniture. On right of street, side of Mechanics institute, B.S. Dawson Chemists & R.H. Wadsworth Watchmaker, the English Scottish & Australian Bank on right. Clark & Scott Drapery. stawell streetscape

Upper Main Street looking East. c 1880. Chadwick's Draper / Liddiard's / London House on left. Commercial Hotel, Oriental Bank / Bank of Australia, Punchard Furniture, Earlier Union Bank. Extended Cross Reef and Sloane and Scotchmans poppet Heads in Background.Street scene of north side of upper Main Street looking east. London House on left, Commercial Hotel near centre of image. Two poppet heads of mines at right distance.stawell streetscape

Upper Main Street Stawell. Mining Exchange and Commercial Hotel built 1861. Photo c1880 Note Hearse in front of Hotel which also housed the Victoria Theatre.stawell streetscape