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George Street showing Royal Hotel c1905

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John Henry Harvey
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State Library of Victoria
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Royal Hotel Victoria House Pitt Street
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Harvey, John Henry

State Library of Victoria

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Buses

Commercial building

Roads

Hotels and Pubs

Victoria House Pitt Street

Department stores constructed for Farmer and Co in Pitt Street. When the street numbers in Pitt Street were changed the address became 259-261 Pitt Street.

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Royal Hotel

Hotel with attached theatre in George Street, which was destroyed by fire in 1840 and rebuilt. It traded there until it was demolished in 1932 to make way for the Dymocks building.

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Dymocks

Bookselling business begun by William Dymock in the 1880s in Pitt Street as Dymock's Book Arcade. He moved to larger premises on King Street and then again in 1890 to George Street, in the southern wing of the Royal Hotel on the eastern side of the road between King and Market Streets. The flagship store remained in the same location after the original George Street store was demolished and replaced by 'The Block', or 'The Dymock's Building' in the 1920s.

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Farmer and Company

Drapery business established in 1839 by Joseph and Caroline Farmer which became a retail empire and social institution. Located initially opposite the Victoria Theatre in Pitt Street, it expanded into a purpose built department store further south on Pitt Street in 1874.

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