Written in 1931 by John Butler Cooper, this book is a two-volume set that covers a wide range of aspects of the city and its development and includes many photographs. Topics examined include the City of Melbourne Corporation, early Elwood, houses, St Kilda beach, early churches and schools, Albert Park, the Town Hall, postal services, St Kilda General Market, mixed bathing, and the South African [Boer] and other wars. Apart from brief biographies of several people within the text, one chapter is devoted to the Town Clerks and councillors and one of the appendixes lists the Mayors and Councillors from 1857 to 1931.

CONTENTS: VOLUME ONE:
Preface vii.
Chapter 1: Grime’s survey party – Fawkner’s party at the Red Bluff – The schooner yacht ‘Lady of St Kilda’ – Arrives at Port Phillip, 1841 – ‘For sale or exchange’ – Sir Thomas Dyke Acland – The schooner’s owners – Wrecked at Tahiti – An interesting letter – Lady of St Kilda, Lady Grange – St Kilda’s place name – Village of Fareham first suggested – Place name St Kilda adopted – Rare book dated 1698, Voyage to St Kilda – The name St Kilda and other facts p1-19.
Chapter 2: Elster Creek, origin of place name Elster – Charles Hotson Ebden – Surveyor Bagshawe and Elstronwick [Elsternwick] – St Kilda: a cattle run – Early leaseholders, Archibald McLaurin, Captain Benjamin Baxter – Thomas Enscroe and Co. – First hut in St Kilda – Letter to his honour C.J. Latrobe [La Trobe] – Crown Land sales 1842 – Particulars of lots sold and purchasers thereof – The Red Bluff Quarantine Station – The fever ship ‘Glen Huntly’ – Place name Glen Huntly – The St Kilda Cemetery p20-38.
Chapter 3: St Kilda’s topography – Its swamp lands – House to let, St Kilda, 1843 – Highway to Melbourne – St Kilda residents subscribe 25 pounds to improve St Kilda Road – Lands changing ownership – Auctioneer Brodie’s ‘flowery’ advertisement 1847 – Melbourne Terrace becomes Fitzroy Street – Rev C. Stuart Ross’s recollections, 1849-50 – William Moodie’s memories – Bushranging in 1852 – Royal Hotel menaced – Alarm of James Mooney, the licensee – Government offers reward for bushrangers’ capture – Melbourne Clerk of Courts, a St Kilda resident, complains of want of police protection – Some Vice-Regal place names – ‘The Wattle paddock’ p39-59.
Chapter 4: The City of Melbourne Corporation – Its first minutes upon St Kilda – The City’s southern boundary – The village of St Kilda – Dr Thomas Black’s petition – Perambulations of Metes and Bounds – Mayor and councillors dine at Royal Hotel – Esplanade, i.e. Promenade, land frontages sold – St Kilda and Melbourne Corporations, 1845 – St Kilda separate ward proposal – St Kilda residents hold meeting in Royal Hotel, 1853 – A petition prepared – Female bathing place to be policed – Tenders called to remove stumps and trees from St Kilda streets – Streets proclaimed – Resident’s complaints – Municipal institutions proclaimed – Boundaries of the municipal district of St Kilda – The resident’s petition – The boundaries redefined p60-78.
Chapter 5: Constituting St Kilda municipality – Historical foolscap notice – Committee to form municipality – Particulars of men – Public meeting of residents in tent in Acland Street – Nominations of candidates for first council – Votes recorded – Council elected – First meeting held in Junction Hotel, March 1857 – The first and second St Kilda Police Courts – Council appoints Town Clerk – An early letter – Election of committees – Council at work – First assessment – First report p79-93.
Chapter 6: St Kilda Council names some of its streets – Particulars of the place names – Early residents and property holders – Five groups of street names – An interesting and historical collection of street names – How the Poet’s Group came to be selected – Council’s first stone quarry – Henry Tullet’s story of the genesis of the St Kilda municipality – Justices and councillors disagree – The St Kilda Jetty – Municipal offices sought – Land sales, luncheon and champagne – Smuggling – William Spottiswood’s memories p94-115.
Chapter 7: A valuable chairman, Benjamin Cowderoy JP – Notable councillors – Hon James McCulloch – Hon Simon Fraser MLC – Hon Sir George Turner – St Kilda’s isolation – First council by-laws – Prayer for water pipe, 1852 – South Yarra Water Works service, 1855 – To St Kilda – The company’s unpopularity – A court case – Agitation for Yan Yean water service – A permanent spring – St Kilda Club House Hotel on fire – Remarkable circumstances – St Kilda Fire Brigade – The Fire Brigades Act 1890 – St Kilda’s new Fire Brigade Station p116-133.
Chapter 8: Council’s first applications to government – Brighton Road, sectional change to High Street – Town Clerk’s salary increased – Early street lighting, oil and gas, 1859 – Letter deliveries – South Park improvements – Fitzroy Street tree planting – First stone quarry – Mitford Street gravel pits – Genesis of Blessington Gardens – Brighton Road – The Council and the O’Shanassy Government – A dishonoured promise – Breach of faith before Parliament – Concerning tolls and toll gate – First municipal iron roller and street cleansing – St Kilda a Borough, 1864 – Borough Council election – Free Public Library – Alma Park – Council’s foresight – A modern note on finance, and street construction p134-155.
Chapter 9: Captain Kenney, and his bathing ship the Old Whaling Brig "Nancy" - An historical St. Kilda circular - Captain Kenney's claims to be the first Baths proprietor considered – Corrective dates - Mrs. Ford's first bathing establishment - Prominent men of the day associate themselves with Kenney's Swimming Carnivals - "Orion" Horne and others - Chinese fishermen - Hegarty's Baths - Demolition of Kenney's Baths - Agitation for their retention p156-180.
Chapter 10: Early Elwood – Place name Elwood – Suggested Quaker origin – Point Ormond – Francis Ormond – The Dougharty family - Louis Huon romance – Elwood government land sales – First purchasers from Crown – Allotments and prices – Rev Joseph Docker – First residents of Elwood – Peter Snodgrass – Trustees of Elwood – They disagree – Minister of Lands as peacemaker – Samuel Griffiths – Agitation for annexation by Brighton Council – Thomas Bent and the would-be seceders – An abortive attempt – The Abattoirs – Agitation for closure – A prolonged fight – The Abattoirs closed p181-198.
Chapter 11: Elwood continued – The Western Swamp and the Elwood Swamp – The government surveyors take swamp’s levels with view to reclamation – Contract let to fill up 134 acres – St Kilda Council cooperates with government – A labour strike – Crown Land sales, allotments and prices – The Council and restricted shop areas – Metropolitan Streams’ and Water Courses’ Bill – The Canal’s future – Snakes – St Kilda’s main drains – Sanitation p199-217.
Chapter 12: Houses and rents – ‘Cockatoo’ watermen and St Kilda shore, 1853 – St Kilda Pier and Jetty Company – F.J. Sargood – Proposed breakwater – Bus service, 1851 – First omnibus, ‘The Premier’, Joseph Howard licensee, Royal Hotel owner – William Johnson Sugden – Mooney family – Criterion Hotel becomes New Baths Hotel – Charles Wedel advertises St Kilda – George Watson – Melbourne Omnibus Company, 1869 – Bay View Hotel – Buck’s Head Hotel – Star and Garter Hotel – St Kilda cabmen – Gunn’s Railway Cars and Village Belle Hotel – Ambrose Kyte and Oakleigh Hall – Traffic returns – Land sales and prices – Opening of Carlisle Street to the Esplanade p218-238.
Chapter 13: St Kilda Beach in 1859 – ‘Beach squatters’ – Their names, houses and rates – Iron houses – Land values – Early residents – Professional players and singers – St Kilda Dramatic Club – Hotels and licensees – Large estates and owners – Terraces – Notable men – Sir John Madden’s reminiscences – Tennyson Villa – R.D. Ireland – Mrs E. Knox’s memories p239-258.
Chapter 14: Sir John Madden’s reminiscences continued – George Watson – Hunting – Hounds meet at the Junction – James Henderson – His pack of beagles – A stag hunt – Meet on the Esplanade, 1873 – Bush racecourse – A lively race meeting – Fifty horsemen fight each other – Village Belle Hotel – Henry Peel’s humour – Place name locations – Mrs Knox’s memories – Notable men and homes – Oakleigh Hall – Carlton House – Royal Hotel, 1859 – The Mooney family – Justice Chapman’s memories – First St Kilda newspaper – Robert Sparrow Smythe – First steam printing press made in the colony, constructed in Acland Street, St Kilda p259-76.
Chapter 15: Germain Nicholson and his daughter’s reminiscences – Edward Sayce, a Quaker – St Kilda Road in 1853 – Howard’s Royal Hotel built in 1847 – Mr Charles Keen’s letter – The Queen’s Mews – George Sparrow – Carriage days and the St Kilda gentry – Four-in-hand on St Kilda Pier – Sparrow’s son’s memories – Archibald Michie’s recollections of early St Kilda – St Kilda’s cattle run – Questions in Parliament – Pounds and pound keepers – Hon James Service and his pig p277-93.
Chapter 16: Isolation of St Kilda village – Residents seek intellectual relaxation – St Kilda Athenaeum – E.G. Fitzgibbon, J. Hemming and G.H.F. Webb and others Provisional Committee – Shakespeare and other poetic recitals foreshadowed – First report by Fitzgibbon – Fees for membership – Athenaeum opened, 16 January 1857 – Archery – Royal Victorian Archery Club formed at St Kilda – Miss Clara Aspinall’s and Sir John Madden’s reminiscences – St Kilda and Mechanics’ Literary Institute established 1859 – Lectures in Town Hall – Archibald Michie – Captain C.R. Nash and Robert O’Hara Burke – St Kilda Cricket Club – Ladies’ charitable activities – Prince of Wales marriage, 1863 – Duke of Edinburgh’s visit – His welcome, and letter of thanks – Alfred Square – Prince Alfred Bowling Club – Queen Victoria’s patronage, and the St Kilda Cricket Club – A letter dated from Windsor Castle p294-322.
Chapter 17: First Anglican Church services – Henry Jennings, 1849 – The School Room – Christ Church, St Kilda – Hugh C.E. Childers – Mr Justice Molesworth – Notable Christ Church fathers – Rev John Stanley Low – All Saints’ Church, East St Kilda – Rev John Herbert Gregory – Enlargement of church – Candelabra from St George’s Chapel, Windsor – Links with Prahran and St Kilda – Sudden death of St Kilda City and Church organist, H.J. Inge – Holy Trinity Church, Balaclava – Rev Dr Torrance – Prayer and praise – Choir and surpliced chorister boys – Notable benefactors of the Church – Presbyterian Church – Rev Arthur Paul – St George’s Church – Sir James McCulloch p323-49.
Chapter 18: Churches continued – St Mary’s, East St Kilda – Sacred Heart of Jesus – Church of Holy Angels – Methodist churches – St Kilda Hebrew Congregation – Building of the Synagogue – Some notable Jewish citizens of St Kilda – Moritz Michaelis – Michaelis Hallenstein – Sigismund Jacoby – First Jewish Rabbi at St Kilda, Rev Elias Blaubaum – St Kilda Jewish war record – Sir John Monash – St Kilda and Brighton Ladies’ Benevolent Society, 1863, and others – The St Kilda Day Nursery – South St Kilda Baptist Church, 1915 – Congregational Church, 1857 – A notable man and Congregationalist, Thomas Fulton, of St Kilda – Salvation Army p350-70.
Chapter 19: Schools – School masters and school mistresses – First Anglican school – John Hadfield, headmaster – Various well-known schools – St Kilda Lyceum – Professor Tegethoff – James Bonwick – Alexander Gillespie – Pembroke Hotel becomes St Kilda Grammar School – Becomes private house, tenants Henry Jennings and Judge Casey – A revered teacher, Mrs Elizabeth Macarthur, of St Kilda Ladies’ College – M. and Madame Akerman and others – All Saints’ Grammar School – State education – State schools of St Kilda – School of Industrial Art – Distinguished artists, C.D. Richardson, Rupert Bunny p371-97. Appendix: supplement to remarks made about the schooner ‘The Lady of St Kilda’ [ship] p399. Index p401.

CONTENTS: VOLUME TWO:
List of illustrations viii.
Chapter 20: Volunteer Movement in St Kilda – First meeting of residents, 1859 – St Kilda Volunteer Company formed – Town councillors alleged designs, want officerships – Indignant denials – Major-General McArthur inspects volunteers – Rifle butts and civilian dangers – Royal Victoria Artillery Company recruited at St Kilda – Lieutenant-Colonel Acland Anderson, Commander – A field battery, 1860 – Some remarkable shooting – Major, now General F.G. Hughes – H.M. Knox – A military dinner – Review of troops, Point Ormond – A sham fight – A real fight – Orderly Rooms, Chapel Street, 1865 – Destruction of tea tree by military – Major Sargood remonstrated with – Vandalism condemned – Replanting – Elwood Rifle Butts, and Park Street Reserve – The final roll call p1-19.
Chapter 21: Beginnings of Albert Park – The Melbourne City Corporation and the proposed Home Park – The lagoon and marshy land – West Beach land affected – Proposals to turn lagoon into lake – The Engineer-in-Chief’s report – Pumping water from the River Yarra to the lagoon – Emerald Hill Council covetous – Wants part of park for burial ground – St Kilda Council successfully objects – Hon Gavan Duffy sells park frontages, 1865 – Political opportunists, Messrs Kerford [Kerferd] and Casey, follow Duffy’s example, 1875 – Broken ministerial promises – St Kilda Council’s protests – The Alpaca Park – Why so named – The Park Committee of Management – Its veteran chairman, Councillor O’Donnell – Government Park subsidy trouble p20-38.
Chapter 22: The Town Hall – Foundation stone laid, 1859 – Town Hall finished – Description of building – The memorial tablet question – The work ‘honourable?’ – Fighting tactics in council – Melbourne amused – The end – No inscription on Town Hall – Opening of Town Hall – Council’s first sitting in Town Hall, 4 January 1860 – Notable Ball – Additions to Town Hall proposed – The 1869 Town Hall agitation – Councillors and ratepayers – Supreme Court judgement – The new City Hall, 1883 – The battle for sites – The organ bait of James Mason – Carlisle Street site selected – Opening of the City Hall – City statistics – Proclamation of the City of St Kilda by Lord Hopetoun – Councillor O’Donnell Mayor – The City Hall – Alterations and additions – St Kilda new Police Court and Station – The Town Hall’s end p39-64.
Chapter 23: The railway lines in St Kilda – Railway companies, their proposals – Melbourne to St Kilda Railway – Street crossings at Emerald Hill – Work leads to fights and Police Court and Supreme Court cases – St Kilda Council objects to Grey Street Tunnel – Passage of Railway Bill opposed – Council successful – Brighton Railway, agitation for railway stations by St Kilda residents – Fitzroy Street encroachment upon for railway station – Council protest and fight – Fitzroy Street compromise – The chains in width – Line opened 13 May 1857 – The loop line to Windsor – Description of line – Proposals for railway to Elwood – The Commissioner of Railway’s scheme around Esplanade – Councillor O’Donnell denounces scheme as ‘outrageous’ – Scheme abandoned – The Electric Street Railway to Brighton – Council moves for new railway station at St Kilda p65-82.
Chapter 24: The St Kilda General Market – Agitation for market in 1867 – The site question – Stormy meeting of ratepayers – The Inkerman Street site – Meetings of protest – Inkerman Street site a swamp – Council Market Committee buys site – Bellman engaged ‘Oyez! Oyez! The Market’s here!’ – Market sheds erected, 1868 – Market opened – Not a success – A privately owned market – The trade stream in St Kilda – Council and primary producers – City’s Corporation tips – Search for destructor sites – Residents’ hostility to sites – The Elsternwick Park lost to St Kilda – South St Kilda residents good citizenship – St Kilda Council erects refuse destructor in Inkerman Street p83-106.
Chapter 25: Early postal services at St Kilda – A public meeting – Council resent interference – Post and Telegraph Offices – Adverse opinions concerning site – Deputation of Burgesses to Council – A notable petition – ‘Hillites’ and ‘Flatites’ – Village Belle Post requirements, 1924 – Elwood Post Office – The motor buses’ trouble – The routes’ question – Public meeting – Council declares meeting’s views not representative – Old residents and some details – Thomas Monahan, William Howard Smith, Edmund Ashley, Thomas Headen, Mrs Elizabeth Harvey (Morey), George Brunning, the Taylors and others p107-136.
Chapter 26: The St Kilda Upper and Lower Esplanades – Quarry at Esplanade – Prosecution for stone thieving – Melbourne Police Court clerk and St Kilda resident, a witness – Band on Esplanade, 1864 – Fitzroy Street widened for Duke of Edinburgh’s visit – Gas lighting – Electric lighting – Beach show, a public nuisance? – St Kilda’s life boat – First tramway – Widening the Esplanade – Reclamation of foreshore – Straightening street alignment on Upper Esplanade – Esplanade Bandstand – ‘Granny’ p137-158.
Chapter 27: Petitions for annexations and movements for secessions – St Kilda and Caulfield – Boundary mistake in Local Government Act, 1874 – Extraordinary position arises – Caulfield Shire gains territory – St Kilda Council protests – New wards created – Annexed land restored – West Beach ratepayers dissatisfied – Movement for severance – Hon Francis Longmore insults the St Kilda councillors – A public meeting – West Beach ratepayers told to go – Tricky move by Emerald Hill council – Shuffle in boundary lines – West Beach seceders aided by Sir Bryan O’Loghlen – West Beach Crown Land sales – South Ward’s proposed secession fizzles out – Influenza epidemic, 1919 – Municipal hospitals – St Kilda Baby Health Centre – Councillor Barnet’s civic services p159-187.
Chapter 28: Mixed bathing – The new pastime confronts the St Kilda Council – Open sea bathing – Regulations made – Regulations criticised – Ladies’ Baths’ question – Dressing and bathing shelters – West St Kilda Progress Association – The ‘meeting of defiance’ – A laughable sequel – Open Sea Bathers’ League – Sea bathing at Elwood – Deputation to Council – A progressive scheme – Plans prepared p188-202.
Chapter 29: The genesis of the St Kilda Fore Shore Committee – Its powers and corporate character – Dangers of differences of opinion between Council and Committee – Open Air Beach Show tenants – Beauty of shorelands – A national responsibility – Open sea bathing proposals – Rift between Council and Shore Committee – Some sharp criticisms – Newspaper correspondence – Council seeks to retire the Fore Shore Committee p203-219.
Chapter 30: The Fore Shore Committee and its doings – The Council’s bathing pavilions – West Beach residents’ protests – Fore Shore Committee’s objections – Clash of authority – Public want baths – The Council asserts its powers – Pavilions are built – Council and Committee agree to disagree – Carlo Catani, the spirit of beach beauty – The Catani Memorial Clock Tower – Andrew Stenhouse presents Captain Cook’s statue – Point Ormond and Marine Parade beautifications p220-236.
Chapter 31: South African War [Boer War] – Brighton Road State School cadet becomes Major-General Sir John Hoad – St Kilda men enlist in Victorian Bushmen’s Corps – Their send-off – Memorial to soldiers from St Kilda – The Great War [World War One] – Council and citizens – Wonderful war efforts at St Kilda – The St Kilda Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Lounge – Councillors who enlisted, Brigadier-General Hughes – Lieutenant-Colonel Duigan – Quartermaster Burnett Gray – The 14th Battalion – Presentation of regimental colours by His Excellency The Governor-General – The Rev Andrew Gillison – His heroism and death at Gallipoli – St Kilda Council’s war activities – St Kilda Patriotic Committee – A summary of work, and collections – Returned wounded Anzacs entertained p237-258.
Chapter 32: War years continued – New Drill Hall – Council favours conscription – Fairyland Carnival – The Barnets – The St Kilda Patriotic and Red Cross League – The armistice – Peace celebrations – Post-war activities and returning Anzacs – Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Monash’s welcome – St Kilda’s Soldiers’ Memorial Hall – War certificates presented by Governor-General – The St Kilda War Memorial – Lieutenant J.M. Bennett’s Memorial – Captain ‘Harry’ Hawker – Inception of friendly societies in St Kilda – The St Kilda and Balaclava Free Kindergarten p258-276.
Chapter 33: The Town Clerks of St Kilda – George Sprigg suggests a Municipal Association of Interests – McCulloch’s Municipal Bill, 1869, contains errors – Corporation Bill follows to remove the errors, but creates power of ministerial patronage – Sprigg’s fight against political patronage – Town Clerks, J.N. Browne and F.W. Chamberlin – The new era of municipal efficiency – Other executive officers, and employees – The Mayoral chain and the City’s seal and coat of arms – Councillor Sir George Turner – The Hon Nathaniel Levi p276-291.
Chapter 34: Spectacular St Kilda – George Wall suggests Vice-Regal landings at St Kilda – Suggestion adopted – Lord Brassey, the first Governor to be welcomed at the St Kilda Pier by the St Kilda Council – The royal landing of HRH the Duke of Cornwall and York, and HRH Duchess Mary of York – The American Fleet’s visit – Another royal landing – HRH The Prince of Wales – Address of welcome – Lord Jellicoe – Sir George and Lady Clarke – The Earl of Stradbroke and Lady Stradbroke p292-305.
Chapter 35: Spectacular St Kilda continued – Pre-eminence of St Kilda Council’s opportunities for royal welcome – Town Clerk’s Organisation – St Kilda’s welcome to the British Fleet – Children’s great demonstration – Admiral Sir Frederick Field’s thanks – The American Fleet – HRH The Duke and HRH the Duchess of York – Lord and Lady Somers – List of royal, vice-regal, and other landings – Royal proclamations – Final words p306-319.
Appendix A: List of Mayors and Councillors p321-9. Appendix B: Public reserves, parks, gardens etc. p331. Appendix C: Financial statistics for ten years p332-3. Index p335-8.

ILLUSTRATIONS: VOLUME ONE:
Facing title page: Group of councillors 1861-2: Cr James Mason, Cr Edward Sydes, Cr Brice Frederic Bunny, Cr Florence Gardiner, Cr Benjamin Cowderoy (first mayor), Cr Henry Tullett iv. The yacht ‘Lady of St Kilda’, from a pencil sketch a. Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, 10th Bart., from a drawing by G. Richmond, 1845 p16. The Red Bluff, from a drawing by Mrs Elizabeth Parsons, about 1875 p20. The Royal Hotel, St Kilda Esplanade, 1864. The first baker’s shop in St Kilda, opened in Fitzroy Street by William Moody on 6 December 1852 p44. Mooney’s Royal Hotel, St Kilda [sketch, advertisement] p48. St Kilda Junction about 1858, looking north along St Kilda Road and Punt Road, showing Police Station / Municipal Offices p88. The old St Kilda Watch-House, built 1859, adjacent to the first Town Hall, the belfry of the first Fire Brigade is shown on the roof p88. The Edward O’Donnell Gardens p96. Group of councillors 1864-5: Sydney W. Smith (Borough surveyor), Cr William Ford, Cr Henry Tullett, Edward T. Bradshaw (Town Clerk), Cr Henry Dyer, Cr Samuel Henry Bindon, Cr John Oldham, Cr Brice Frederick Bunny, Cr Alexander Fraser MLC, Cr Benjamin Cowderoy (first mayor), Cr James Turner p112. The old Fire Station, corner of Inkerman Street and Greeves Street, now part of the Municipal Depot p132. The new Metropolitan Fire Station, corner of Brighton Road and Scott Street, opened 1927 p136. Blessington Street Gardens, 1930 p140. The lily pond, Blessington Street Gardens, 1930 p144. St Kilda Road p144. The first St Kilda Jetty and Kenney’s Bathing Ship, about 1855 (oil painting) p156. Gangway to Kenney’s Bathing Ship and Baths, photo taken just prior to demolition at the commencement of the Foreshore Committee’s improvements p180. View of Fitzroy Street, showing the unoccupied land on the north-west side, and the swampy nature thereof, photo taken about 1855 p200. Boring for coal on the Red Bluff, by the Victorian Coal Mining Company 1895, also showing St Kilda Abattoirs p208. View of Carlisle Street, looking westward from Balaclava Railway Bridge, taken about 1862 p208. Oakleigh Hall, East St Kilda p232. Village Belle Hotel, about 1881 p256. House built by Mr Germaine Nicholson, said to have been the first in the vicinity of The Junction, 1850 p272. St Kilda Junction about 1858, looking southward along High Street and Barkly Street p288. St Kilda Bowling Green 1866 p318. The Old School Room, adjoining Christ Church, Acland Street, subsequently the first State School in St Kilda p320. Christ Church, Acland Street p324. All Saints’ Church, Chapel Street, East St Kilda p332. Holy Trinity Church, Brighton Road p336. Free Presbyterian Church, corner of Chapel Street and Alma Road p344. Presbyterian Church, corner of Alma Road and Barkly Street p344. St George’s Presbyterian Church, Chapel Street, East St Kilda p348. St Mary’s Church, Dandenong Road p352. Church of the Sacred Heart, Grey Street p352. Church of the Holy Angels, The Avenue, Balaclava p352. Wesleyan Church, Fitzroy Street, St Kilda p356. Old Synagogue, Charnwood Crescent p356. New St Kilda Synagogue, Charnwood Grove, foundation stone laid 1926 p360. State School, Brighton Road, St Kilda p384. Park School, Fitzroy Street, St Kilda p390. Central School, Scott Street, Elwood p390.

ILLUSTRATIONS: VOLUME TWO:
The Council 1930-31: Cr G.H. Robinson, Cr J.B. Levi, Cr T. Unsworth, Cr F.L. Dawkins, Cr R.T. Taylor, Cr R.H. Morley, Cr H. Moroney, Cr G.B. Renfrey, Cr E. O’Donnell, Cr A. Jacka VC (Mayor), Cr B. Gray MLA, Cr G. Cummings iv. Congregational Church, Mitford Street p2. Baptist Church, Pakington Street p8. The St Kilda Rifle Corps, about 1858 p14. The Albert Park Drive: looking across Fitzroy Street to Princes Street, about 1862 p20. Princes Street and Drive through Albert Park, about 1864 p28. St Kilda Railway Station, engraving, 1862 p30. Old Town Hall and reconstructed Courthouse, watercolour by Sydney W. Smith p38. Holiday makers on the lawn near the Catani Arch p42. Façade of the City Hall, showing new portico p54. Portico of the City Hall, erected 1925 p58. New Police Station and Courthouse, Chapel Street p62. Façade of the old Courthouse at the old Town Hall site p64. Railway viaduct over St Kilda Road, line from St Kilda Station to Windsor Station, engraving 1862 p72. Dandenong Road, 1931 p86. View from the Band Rotunda, Esplanade, showing the amusement centre in the distance p102. Municipal Depot and Destructor, Inkerman Street p106. Post Office, High Street p112. Elwood Post Office, Glenhuntly Road p116. Brighton Road, 1931 p132. St Kilda Beach and Esplanade (from the old Royal Baths), photo by Sydney W. Smith, about 1862 p136. Fitzroy Street, view taken from Kenney’s Ship Baths, print p138. Fitzroy Street, fenced on north side, about 1864 p140. Fitzroy Street looking west, the Cenotaph in the distance, 1930 p142. St Kilda Pier, about 1864 p144. St Kilda Esplanade, 1865 p144. View taken from the Royal St Kilda Yacht Clubhouse p146. The Royal St Kilda Yacht Club House [Clubhouse] p148. The retaining wall, between the Upper and Lower Esplanades p150. The Cleve Gardens, corner of Fitzroy Street and Beaconsfield Parade p150. The site of the first foreshore reclamation work, between the Pier and Fitzroy Street p154. The result of the reclamation work between the Pier and Fitzroy Street p154. View of Granny’s Fruit Stall, Upper Esplanade p156. The Esplanade and Granny’s Stall, about 1864 p158. High Street, in the vicinity of the Junction, about 1864 p168. High Street and Wellington Street at the Junction, about 1864 p178. Barkly Street at the Junction, about 1864 p186. Holiday makers at Marine Parade, in front of the Open Sea Bathing Pavilion p190. Holiday makers, Marine Parade p196. An early group of the St Kilda Fore Shore Committee: Cr J.J. Love, Cr H.F. Barnet, Captain Currie, W. Thorn, H.O. Allan (Secretary), Carlo Catani, Cr H.B. Gibbs, Cr Ed O’Donnell p204. Luna Park, Palais Pictures, Palais de Danse, Lower Esplanade p206. Victory Theatre, corner of Barkly Street and Carlisle Street p208. Fountain in the Catani Gardens p210. Open Sea Bathing Pavilion, Marine Parade p222. The St Kilda Baths, destroyed by fire, 18 November 1925 p222. Baths in course of reconstruction, 1931 p224. New Baths, ladies’ section p226. Captain Cook’s Memorial [statue] p230. South African [Boer] War Memorial, Alfred Square p234. St Kilda Soldiers’ Lounge, Lower Esplanade p242. St Kilda Soldiers’ Lounge, visit by His Excellency the Governor-General, the Rt Hon Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 29 July 1916 (opening after reconstruction) p244. Soldiers’ Lounge and Patriotic Workers p244. Presentation of colours to the 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, on behalf of the St Kilda citizens, by His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, Lower Esplanade, 13 December, 1914 p248. 14th Battalion colours: the colours presented to the 14th Battalion, AIF, 13 December 1914, prior to the Battalion’s embarkation for active service overseas, were returned to the municipality for safe-keeping at the Anzac Commemoration Service, 27 April 1930 p250. The St Kilda Soldiers’ Memorial Hall, Acland Street p266. Presentation of memorial and war service certificates by the Governor-General, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, Lower Esplanade, 15 May 1921 p268. The Cenotaph p270. The Bennett Memorial p270. R.T. Kelly, City Surveyor p284. Frederick Chamberlin, Town Clerk and Treasurer p284. The visit of the Duke and Duchess of York, the landing at St Kilda Pier and civic welcome, 6 May 1901 p296. Visit of HRH the Prince of Wales, landing at St Kilda Pier and civic welcome, 26 May 1920 p300. The landing at St Kilda Pier of the Earl and Countess of Stradbroke, civic welcome 24 February 1921 p304. Visit of the British Special Service Squadron, civic welcome to Vice-Admiral Field and staff, 18 March 1924 p306. Visit of United State Pacific Squadron, civic welcome to Admiral Coontz and staff, 23 July 1925 p308. The landing at St Kilda Pier of the Duke and Duchess of York, civic welcome 21 April 1927 p310. The Duke and Duchess of York p312. The landing at St Kilda Pier of Lord and Lady Somers, civic welcome 28 June 1926 p312.