Melbourne - Lesley and myself took a taxi from our hotel to Williamtowns which is a 15 minutes drive to catch the 2:15pm free Heritage Walking Tour. We arrived at the
Hobsons Bay Visitor Information Centre and registered ourselves. This small city still has the character of early British grand old houses. The first streets started off as William's Town and were laid out in 1837, making it Melbourne's earliest settlement.
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| Hobsons Bay Visitor Information Centre |
John was our guide for the heritage tour and he was very friendly and gave a good understanding of this town.
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| Rev Wilkinson drinking fountain |
Reverend Wilkinson commission the building of this drinking fountain for seafarers to quench their thirst with water instead of beers at the pubs to reduce the number of drunk sailors. Crossing the road and walking down was came across the Custom Wharf.
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| Custom Wharf |
Directly across was one of Williamstown oldest hotel unfortunately it is no longer a hotel but a male only public housing.
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| Old Hotel built in 1852 |
The most interesting was the Williamstown morgue which we went around and the guide open the door to show the inside of this defunct morgue.
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| Willaimstown Morgue |
The morgue was built entirely of blue stone by convict labourers. Walking into the morgue was surreal with dummy dead bodies hung from the ceiling to prevent rats from eating at the corpses. The city also runs a night ghost trail leading to this Williamstown Morgue...so scary!
Walking down the street there is a bit of American history of this battleship Shenandoah. This was the Confederates battleship that came to Williamstown for ship repair and return to US to sink more Northern ships. It seems Australia was pulled into the conspiracy that they helped the South in the American Civil War.
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| Telegraph Hotel |
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| The Salvation Army House |
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| Unique design of this corner restaurant |
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