Victoria Lane

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datePublished 2024-08-27
name Victoria Lane
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Also known as Victoria Place.

Status: Date TBC.

Located at or near: TBC.

Probable or possible origin of name: TBC.

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. 55). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"The original roughness was not intentional. Subdivisions near the port carried high-sounding names-Coromandel, Powells, Russell, Tavistock and Victoria places, Cheethams and Wright lanes and the terrace of houses, Roach Terrace.Yet only 31 people lived in them in 1847, compared with hundreds along unnamed tracks. Off Little Bourke, there were 307, off Little Collins, 100, and off Flinders Lane 35 inhabitants living in anonymous lanes. Lanes obviously bred lanes, for the major streets had few. Only 46 people lived in offshoots from Collins Street, 34 off Bourke, 16 off Lonsdale, 4 off Flinders, and 2 each off Elizabeth and La Trobe streets. Owners of important allotments probably shared the view of James Graham, a merchant, that cutting up those frontages would devalue them by bringing unpleasant neighbours. He was dismayed that a subdivision near his property had become a perfect nest of wretched hovels and a complete den of infamy." p. 55.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1962
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