View of Melbourne looking north from the West Melbourne Gas Works, 1855, by Walter Bentley Woodbury RHSV Collection GN-GN-0083
In the map below, the Melbourne Mount Alexander and Murray Railway Lines are marked, skirting to the north of the swamp.
The North Melbourne Pottery is clearly marked, and a gasworks has been built close to the Yarra and Batman’s Hill.
Detail from Melbourne and its suburbs, compiled by James Kearney, draughtsman; engraved by David Tulloch and James D. Brown, 1855. Courtesy of the State Library Victoria Collection
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