The full title is "Sands and McDougall's Melbourne and Suburban Directory for 1865 containing street, alphabetical, and trade directory Melbourne and suburbs, together with a miscellaneous directory of useful information".
This is arranged in over 600 pages as follows:
- directory arranged by street - over 200 pages
- directory arranged alphabetically - 167 pages
- trade and professional directory - 60 pages
- miscellaneous directory and ads
The miscellaneous section includes banks, railways, land & sea transport, societies and institutions, government and official, ecclesiastical, legal, colonial, postal information and much more.
The directory concludes with over 60 pages of advertisements - all useful insight, often including names of people and places.
The whole directory, including most text in the ads, is searchable. This makes it useful not only for finding names, but also places occupations and other information for family and local historians.
Localities covered:
Melbourne
East Melbourne
North Melbourne (Carlton, Hotham)
West Melbourne
Collingwood (Fitzroy, East Collingwood)
Richmond
Prahran, South
Yarra and Windsor
St Kilda
Emerald Hill
Sandridge
Williamstown
Northcote
Brighton
Brunswick
Essendon
Flemington
Footscray
Hawthorn and Kew
Toorak
Heidelberg
Alphinton
Ivanhoe
Pentridge
Preston
Originally produced by Archive CD Books Australia in 2004, this title has now been remastered and re-released, and includes better searching capability. This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole of the original book, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
Click here to download a file of sample pages from this book
Right click on the link and select "save as" - to a location on your hard drive. The sampler can be opened, navigated and searched as with the full CD file/s.
Sample files usually contain the title page, contents, some introductory pages and sample pages from the body of the book. Often the complete index from the original book is included.
