1874 Queen's Wharf Yarra A number of buildings in

A number of buildings in the photo still exist

Hanton's butcher shop on the ground floor (with a butcher in a traditional striped apron standing outside the shop on the edge of the pavement)

The Cathedral Hotel anchors the mid-ground composition

then Francis Longmore & Co

1874 Queen's Wharf Yarra A number of buildings inCharles 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