1885 Collins Street - Equitable Co-operative Society Building (later Georges)This iconic building known by most as "Georges" was originally built for the Equitable Co operative Society in 1883. Designed by architects John Grainger and Charles D'Ebro and built on land owned by Scots' Church, the new building was constructed in classical revival style in 1883 by David Mitchell for the Equitable Co operative Society Ltd. (See it as it was when it became "Georges".) The society soon went bankrupt, and land boom speculator and

In early Melbourne

and that is probably him up on the bridge

Eventually these properties were subdivided

looking over the Falls

17 1802 at two p

and renamed it as the "Grand Coffee Palace"

A photograph from 1875 of Melbourne looking north west with the nearest street being Swanston Street

Almost at the end of Flinders Street we see the Griffith's Brothers Tea Warehouse

not to be recovered until 1877

showing the many inner city buildings along with other prominent landmark buildings of Melbourne

showing some of the equipment that was used in 1883 to commence the removal of the Falls

the building was demolished in 1973