A photo from 1874 looking at Melbourne's original Fish Market, which was located on the south-west corner of Flinders Street and Swanston Street.

The large building  was originally built as Melbourne's Fish Market in 1865. As Melbourne grew and health regulations and traffic congestion increased, a new location for the Fish Market was built at the western end of Flinders Street, on the south-east corner of its intersection with Spencer Street. The original building continued as a fruit market and bicycle stables until the late 1890s, and was demolished in 1901, at which time plans were being developed for an enlarged Flinders Street Station which was completed in 1909, and the magnificent new Fish Market was completed in 1892, and demolished in 1959.

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Photographer was Charles Bayliss.

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