Arcade Alley

Arcade section of Emporium now runs on site.

Status: Discontinued. Named c1853.

Located at or near: 278-280 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Queen's">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00079b.htm">Queen's Arcade, adjacent, 275-281 Lonsdale Street.

Location is approximate.

For more information, see: Bate, W., Broome, R., Davis, N., May, A. J., & Stitt, H. (2024). The story of Melbourne’s lanes: Essential but unplanned (pp. 22, 61, 29). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Besides the Chinese in Heffernan Lane in 1895 there were premises occupied by the Union Electric Lighting Company, a gas apparatus maker, shopfitters, and a wood yard. Nearby in Tattersalls Lane was the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company (harbinger of traffic congestion); and, prefiguring social changes through migration, a cluster of Italian names had appeared in Cumberland, Merritts, McGrath and Sherwood places, and McCormac and Exploration lanes.Back towards the city centre there were cigar makers, dealers and warehouses in pleasantly named places like Blossom Alley, Caledonian Lane, Arcade Alley and Merlin Lane. Typically for the area, Buckley & Nunn's delivery wagons and horses were housed in Arcade Alley, and another big drapery, Robertson & Moffat, had warehouses in Lynch and Blossom alleys. Louden Alley was home to the Sun Printing and Publishing Company, the American Broom Manufacturers, a varnish maker, a coachbuilder, and a worker in stained glass." p. 22.