Flinders Street ~ Flinders Street Railway Station ~ St. Paul's Cathedral ~ State Theatre Old Melbourne Gaol Parliament Reserve ~ St. Patrick's Cathedral Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Spring Street and east Swanston Street ~ Town Hall Victoria Street and north ~ Carlton Gardens ~ State Route 46 FIDO, Big Rolling Pin, and other Big Things Left: The Clifton Hill Shot Tower, east of downtown at the east end of Alexandra Parade (originally Reilly Street) and Copper Lane in Collingwood. It was built in 1882 to manufacture lead shot. Although it looks like a smokestack, it functioned completely differently. Lead would be melted at the top and dropped down the length of the tower, forming round droplets on the way down, hitting a basin of water at the bottom and instantly solidifying into bullets. I'm sure it wasn't the safest place to breathe. At 80 metres tall, this was the tallest shot tower in Melbourne for some time. |