Central Business District in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — Oceania
Panoramic View of Melbourne
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Photographed by Dean Barton-Ancliffe, July 20, 2026
1. Panoramic View of Melbourne Marker
Panoramic View of Melbourne from the tower of Fitzgerald's Residence, Lonsdale Street west, looking north-west, 1869
Noone arrived in Melbourne in 1856, and established a photographic studio, but was later employed in the Government Survey Office as a photo lithographer. His photographs were acclaimed and he was commissioned by the government to prepare albums for visiting dignitaries.
This photograph is one of eight commissioned for presentation to visiting British naval officers and is part of a near complete panorama from the high point of Fitzgerald's house in West Melbourne.
The panorama graphically shows the increasing permanence of post gold rush Melbourne in its solid buildings and denser settlement.
The background shows the West Melbourne Swamp known then as Batman's Swamp. The foreground contains the West Melbourne Common School, West Melbourne Literary Institute Fountain, and the area near the present site of the RHSV where the Royal Mint was to be built and the first Exhibition Building had been recently demolished.
Erected by Royal Historical Society - Victoria.
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Location. 37° 48.638′ S, 144° 57.378′ E. Marker is in Melbourne, Victoria. It is in the Central Business District. It is on A'Beckett Street 0.1 kilometers east of William Street, on the left when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 287 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia. Touch for directions.
Regionally, it is in Oceania, in Australasia, in the Pacific Ocean, in South Pacific, on the Pacific Rim, in the Western World, and in the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once a British colony.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Melbourne 1880 (here, next to this marker); First Princes Bridge, Melbourne (a few steps from this marker); Melbourne (Bird's Eye View) 1882 (a few steps from this marker); The Home of the Historical Society of Victoria (a few steps from this marker); The Flagstaff Gardens (a few steps from this marker); Federal Coffee Palace (a few steps from this marker);
Photographed by Dean Barton-Ancliffe, July 20, 2026
2. Panoramic View of Melbourne Marker along A'Beckett Street
Also see . . . John Noone active 1858-1888. National Portrait Gallery
John Noone, photographer and lithographer, began advertising the services of his ‘Photographic Establishment’ in the Melbourne Argus in September 1858, and worked from two separate addresses on Collins Street from this time until 1862. An early experimenter in the recently-invented photolithographic process, he was appointed photographer to the Victorian Crown Lands Department in 1866, exhibiting maps and plans he produced in the course of his work at the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition the same year. During the 1860s, he also worked as a photographer for the Public Library of Victoria, exhibiting a series of his photolithographs there in 1869 and at the London International Exhibition in 1873. In 1869, he also created a series of panoramic photographs, taken from the tower of residence in Lonsdale Street, of the city of Melbourne; seven of these were exhibited at the Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition in 1870. The State Library of Victoria holds many examples of Noone’s work, both photographs and photolithographs.(Submitted on September 2, 2026, by Dean Barton-Ancliffe of Rowville, Victoria.)
Credits. This page was last revised on September 6, 2026. It was originally submitted on September 2, 2026, by Dean Barton-Ancliffe of Rowville, Victoria. This page has been viewed 9 times since then. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on September 2, 2026, by Dean Barton-Ancliffe of Rowville, Victoria. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
