1874 Beach Street Sandridge William Street depicting the city looking south

depicting the city looking south from over the Exhibition Building

Photograph by Charles Nettleton

off in the distance across Hobson's Bay you can see Point Gellibrand and Williamstown

A man with a bicycle stands in the right foreground

the leaders of the ill-fated expedition

1874 Beach Street Sandridge William Street depicting the city looking southA photo from early 1874 looking east along Beach Street, Sandridge (later known as Port Melbourne from 1884) from the corner of Railway Parade. On the left of the photo is Mitchell's London Hotel. Further along Beach Street is the Freemason's Tavern, sited on the corner of Stokes Street. A large industrial chimney further to the east belongs to the Sandridge Sugar Works factory, which commenced in the 1860s, but burnt down in 1875. The large gates,