Back lanes and alleys were the playgrounds for the slum children of Melbourne during the 1930s. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
A CITY street is busy with cars, a tram and a horse-drawn cart.
Several men wearing suits and hats are reading in a grand library, while a young woman dressed stylishly in white is seen leaning back in a rowing boat.
LIFE IN 1930s AT A GLANCE
Price of stamp: 2 pence
People unemployed: 300,000 across Australia
Biggest names in sport: Don Bradman and Phar Lap
Latest tech device (the iPad of its day): A direct radio telephone link between Canberra and Washington
Population of Melbourne: Reached 1 million in the early ‘30s
Joseph Henry Giles with an apprentice at their Middle Park butcher shop in the 1930s. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
Chapel St in the 1930s. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
Meanwhile, a group of slum children pose happily in an inner suburban laneway.
These are photographs from a bygone era — Melbourne in the 1930s, as sourced from the Herald and Weekly Times archive.
Chapel St in the 1930s. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
Hospital cages at the Melbourne Zoo in the 1930s, if you look carefully you can see the tiger in the cage on the far right. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library/ ARGUS Source: HeraldSun
RMIT University urban planning expert Professor Michael Buxton said the pictures showed how much the city has changed over the last 80 years.
1931: Reading room at the State Library of Victoria. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library/ ARGUS Source: HeraldSun
“What we’ve have got left is a city still with a lot of wonderful features, but when you look at those photographs you get a glimpse of the city that Melbourne once was,” he said.
“It was an intact Victorian city that was one the grandest in the world.”
1930s: Melbourne shoppers. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
1930s: Cleaning out the central lake at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Source: HeraldSun
Prof Buxton said the photos also revealed a lost lifestyle.
“We had a Melbourne where people walked to work — Richmond and Collingwood had lots of jobs and East Melbourne was full of boarding houses,” he said.
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“There’s a huge emphasis on public transport, so many photos there of trams. People relied on public transport, there wasn’t the frenetic, crazy car-based culture that we have now — in lots of ways it was a more relaxed lifestyle.”
1931 Melbourne Cup which was won by White Nose and Phar Lap came eighth. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
FEBRUARY 1931: The coffin of Dame Nellie Melba leaves Scots’ Church in Collins St which her father had built and she sang there as a child. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
DECEMBER 1934: Families marooned by floods rescued by police in Hawthorn make the front page of The Sun. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
Unemployed men construct part of Yarra Boulevard as sustenance workers in the 1930s. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
OCTOBER 1936: Boat builder Paul Blunt hard at work shipbuilding in Williamstown. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library/ ARGUS Source: HeraldSun
NOVEMBER 1937, HENLEY-ON-YARRA: Began in 1904, this rowing regatta was one of the social highlights for young stylish women who paraded at the event in the latest fashions. Here we have a Henley girl all done up for an adoring public. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
1937: Trees cast shadows on Alexandra Ave, Melbourne. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
1937: The stock exchange. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library/ARGUS Source: HeraldSun
1930s: Italian new arrival Salvatore Cosentino couldn't get work, so he built a working model of Melbourne's CBD and charged people three pence to view it. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
MARCH 1937: Laurie Nash, South Melbourne footballer runs onto the ground. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
1937: Exterior of Myer. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
1930s: Aerial view of the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
1930s: Hillier's opened its doors in Collins St in 1934. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
SEPTEMBER 1939: Toorak Rd, Toorak Village. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
1939: Collins St, Melbourne. Picture: Herald Sun Image Library Source: HeraldSun
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