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

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

Three colour photos Gold Reef Mall. Post Office end 1990sstawell main street streetscape

Gold Reef Mall Post Office c1985 looking north. Two colour photographs one shows grassed area in front of Post Office and Langford's old pharmacy., second shows community Calendar plant holders and children's play area, State bank on left, Monahan's Pharmacy on right.. stawell main street 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 in the Snow 18th July 1949stawell

Main Street in the Snow 18th July 1949stawell

Main Street in the Snow 18th July 1949stawell

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

Interior main hall of Pleasant Creek Court House. Stawell Historical Society member Betty Collins seated and Past President Margaret Mason standing with banner. stawell

Portrait of lady in garden beside chair. Noted Aunty Ede passed away 1940. Mrs Ede Sowden was taken in the Garden of the Raitt home upper Main Street.Lady dressed in a dark coloured suit, white high-necked blouse with brooch at centre, standing beside a chair in the garden. Picket fence is in the background.on the back: Nov '83 Lemon tree has just been removed at property of Mrs Raitt , Upper Main Beverley Biggs (possibly Briggs) has the chair - this is her grandma's sister. Family home brought from Creswick by bullock dray. On the front: Auntie Ede passed away 1940stawell

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

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

Gold Reef Mall from area in front of Post Office looking East. stawell main streetscape

Main Street Stawell looking West from area in front of Bull and Mouth Hotel. Pre 1978stawell main street streetscape

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

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

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