Complex sentence: Main street is loose reconstruction of Main Street, Ballarat East which was once the settlement's main street consisting of timber buildings it was consumed in a large fire during the 1860s and a more substantial town centre planned around Sturt and Lydiard Street in Ballarat West.
Split into simpler sentences: Main street is loose reconstruction of Main Street, Ballarat East which was once the settlement's main street, consisting of timber buildings. It was consumed in a large fire during the 1860s and a more substantial town centre planned around Sturt and Lydiard Street in Ballarat West.