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    Column by Mark McDonald. If you like historical Then and Now photos of the west, follow @historicprints.com.au
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    Then & Now: The Anglers Tavern 1880s

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    More than a pub, the Anglers Tavern is a local social icon with a liquid history dating back to the 1860s. Originally known by many names, Anglers Arms, Anglers Rest and Anglers Hotel, it has weathered floods and reinvented itself through the years.
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    Then & Now: Bunbury Street Tunnel 1926

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    Bunbury Street was once a quiet little suburban street now transformed into a cut-and-cover tunnel.  In the 1920s, Victorian Railways embarked on a major project to improve the flow of freight and passenger trains through Melbourne's western suburbs. The solution was to separate and add a new goods line from South Kensington to West Footscray. This bypassed the busy Footscray Junction and the goods yard and shipping sheds south of Dynon Road.
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    Former State Bank, Seddon 1970s

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    Across the street from Seddon Station sits the former State Savings Bank of Victoria, Seddon Branch. It was built around 1925, replacing an earlier State Bank on Charles Street.
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    Yarraville Station and crossing c1916 … still waiting at the gates!

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    South Footscray station before the 1980s Yarraville station.
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    1927 ‘Mount Mistake’ in West Footscray 

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    Right next to the shiny new Whitten Oval stands ‘Mount Mistake’, a massive tangle of vehicular overpasses that carries Geelong Road traffic over the railway lines at West Footscray station.
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