Historical information

Copy Photograph from a postcard showing Princes Bridge and St Kilda Road. Aerial view from either the Melbourne Gas company building or St Paul's Cathedral. Shows the water clock that was located at Princes Bridge from 1902 to 1910, a cable tram, horse cabs lined up in Batman Ave, Wirth's Olympia, Varley Bros, K Wright & Sons timber yard, and South Melbourne factories and warehouses, including City Road. The Edmund Fitz Gibbon Memorial is also visible in St Kilda Road - erected in 1908.

Significance

Yields information about Princes Bridge and St Kilda Road c1908-10

Physical description

Black and white print with a plain back