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George Street showing Royal Hotel c1905

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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Harvey, John Henry

State Library of Victoria

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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 1879 in Market Street. It moved to its current location in George Street in 1932.

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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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