1874 Queen's Wharf Yarra the banks and newspaper houses

the banks and newspaper houses

A number of buildings in the photo still exist

The Cathedral Hotel anchors the mid-ground composition

In August 1858 a bylaw was introduced to stop the cabs waiting in the gutters

1874 Queen's Wharf Yarra the banks and newspaper housesCharles Bayliss took this beautiful photo in 1874 of the area around Queen's Wharf. This wharf was located on the northern bank of the Yarra River, just south of Flinders Street, at the southern end of William Street. The area around Queen's Wharf was the original landing area in 1835, but it was just a rough and muddy riverbank then, but within a year it had been turned into a workable wharf. At this point in the Yarra there was a naturally wide