Everything tagged "Western District"

The date of this photo is the early 1880's as Richmond Terrace on the top right of this picture has been finished.

Ball's Court is in the centre of the picture with the flag. To the left on the horizon is the Berlin Mission and the road between them  is High Street. The unmodified Civil Hospital building is on the right of the picture. Westbourne Villa is the large colonial house just above the Shanty town in the foreground, its inhabitants regularly complained about the smells coming form this location.  <Read more ...>

A: Gas Works
B: Ouchterlony Battery Platform is to the left
C: St Peters Church
D: Reformatory School
E: 
F: Civil Hospital Buildings
G: Sunnyside (I forgot to add the letter but it is the large white building between F and H. The two Basel Mission buildings are just ot the left of Sunnyside)
H: Ball's Court
I: Fairlea
To the right of Fairlea is either Avalon or the building to the north of Bonham Road
J: Craigllachie
K: Greenmount
L: Westbourne Villa
M: Sai On Opium Divans
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