Melbourne Laneways

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-08
name Melbourne Laneways
description

Historical Melbourne Laneways.

url https://tlcmap.org/publiccollections/103

Layers

Casselden Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-28
name Casselden Street
description

Alternative name for Casselden Place. Please see Casselden Place.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1976
keywords Placename

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Little Leichardt Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Little Leichardt Street
description

Formerly Tucker Lane; perhaps colloquial, Eagle Alley; now part Madame Brussels Lane, interior lane in Urban Workshop.

Named 1861. Little Leichardt Street can be seen on the map "City">http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/114200">City of Melbourne 1907, Victoria, Australia".

Located at or near: 44-46 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Ludwig Leichhardt, explorer.

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. 151, title page, 51). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url
temporalCoverage 1861-01-01
keywords Placename

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Centre Court

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-28
name Centre Court
description

Alternative name for Centre Place. Please see Centre Place

url
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Centerway Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-28
name Centerway Arcade
description

Alternative name for Centreway Arcade. Please see Centreway Arcade.

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Cheetham Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-28
name Cheetham Place
description

Alternative name for Cheetham Alley. Please see Cheetham Alley

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Cheetham Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-28
name Cheetham Lane
description

Alternative name for Cheetham Alley. Please see Cheetham Alley

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Cleve Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-28
name Cleve Alley
description

Alternative name for Cleve Lane. Please see Cleve Lane

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Cosgrove Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-28
name Cosgrove Lane
description

Alternative name for Cosgrave Lane. Please see Cosgrave Lane.

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Port Phillip Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Port Phillip Arcade
description

Port Phillip Arcade was classified as a public arcade.

Status: Demolished. Named 1961.

Located at or near: 228-234 Flinders Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Port Phillip Club Hotel, formerly on site.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1406
temporalCoverage 1961-01-01
keywords Placename

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Campbell Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Campbell Lane
description

Campbell Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1907.

Located at or near: 65-67 William Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Charles Campbell, manufacturer, adjacent, 65 William St; or Campbell & Felton, pastoralists

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1907-01-01
keywords Placename

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Market Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Market Street
description

Market Street was classified as a public street.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 227-435 Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Western Market, adjacent, William, Collins, Market sts & Flinders Lane.

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. 7, 28-29, 40). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url
temporalCoverage 1856-01-01
keywords Placename

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Moylans Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Moylans Lane
description

Moylans Lane was classified as a partly private lane.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 382-384 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Thomas & John Moylan, Moylan's Buildings, 382 Flinders Lane.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1856-01-01
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NAB Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name NAB Place
description

Also known as National Australia Bank Place. Formerly The Foundry, incorporates Makers Lane.

Named 2021.

Located at or near: 395 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: National Australia Bank, on site.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1465
temporalCoverage 2021-01-01
keywords Placename

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Lush Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Lush Lane
description

Lush Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1905.

Located at or near: 176-180 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: James Lush, Moubray & Lush, drapers, importers.

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

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougall's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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temporalCoverage 1905-01-01
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Cocker Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Cocker Alley
description

Previously known as Hotham Place.

Named 1906.

Located at or near: 235-237 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: David, William & Benjamin Cocker, owners, Y & J's old corner.

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. 112, 173, 176, 204). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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temporalCoverage 1906-01-01
keywords Placename

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Geddes Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Geddes Lane
description

Geddes Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 494-498 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Catherine Geddes, J&J Geddes, John Geddes, corn & grain crusher, 494 Flinders Lane.

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

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Highlander Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Highlander Lane
description

Highlander Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 482-484 Flinders Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Royal Highlander Hotel, 480-482 Flinders Street.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1856-01-01
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Commerce Way

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Commerce Way
description

Commerce Way was classified as a private way.

Named 1915.

Located at or near: 331-333 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Commerce House, adjacent, 318-332 Flinders Street.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1915-01-01
keywords Placename

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Royston Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Royston Place
description

Royston Place was classified as a private place.

Named 1963.

Located at or near: 235-243 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Royston House, 245-251 Flinders Lane.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1963-01-01
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Robbs Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Robbs Lane
description

Robbs Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1904.

Located at or near: 482-492 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: John Robb, former director, Federal Bank, Robbs Buildings, adjacent, 525-535 Collins Street.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1384
temporalCoverage 1904-01-01
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Hotham Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Hotham Place
description

Now known as Cocker Alley.

Status: Renamed. First named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 235-237 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Sir">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00659b.htm">Sir Charles Hotham, Lieutenant-governor, then Governor, Victoria.

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

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Were Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Were Alley
description

Now Rothsay Lane.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 279-281 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: J.B. Were, occupied building nearby to west.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1856-01-01
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Sniders Lane [south]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Sniders Lane [south]
description

[South] Formerly Cheetham Alley.

Status: Discontinued.

Named 1915?

Located at or near: 316-318 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: J&B Sniders, clothing manufacturers and importers, 318-324 Flinders Lane.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1915-01-01
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Albion Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-13
name Albion Lane
description

Alternative name of Albion Alley.

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Allsop Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-13
name Allsop Lane
description

Alternative spelling of Alsop Lane.

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Bull Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-13
name Bull Alley
description

Later known as Balcombe Place

Status: Date 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. 170, 141). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Regent Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Regent Place
description

Rebuilt as driveway entry Westin Hotel.

Named 1930.

Located at or near: 195-197 Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Regent Theatre, 191-197 Collins 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. 11, 67, 112, 151, 170, 3-5, 32, 33, 192). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Lingham Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Lingham Lane
description

Lingham Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1974.

Located at or near: 275-277 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: A. Lingham, Crown grantee.

Location is approximate.

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Higson Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Higson Lane
description

Higson Lane was classified as a public lane. Sometimes known as Higsons Lane. 

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 127-129 Flinders Lane. 

Probable or possible origin of name: J. Higson & Sons, saddlers, ironmongers' manufacturers, 129-131 Flinders Lane.

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. 23, 64, 67). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Rutledge Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Rutledge Lane
description

Rutledge Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1974.

Located at or near: 1-3 Hosier Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: William Rutledge, Crown grantee.

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

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Duckboard Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Duckboard Place
description

Duckboard Place was classified as a public place.

Named 1953.

Located at or near: 89-91 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Duckboard House, adjacent, 91-93 Flinders Lane, World War II troop entertainment centre.

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. 181, 53, 203, 206). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Bank Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-13
name Bank Lane
description

Alternative name of Bank Place.

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Dykes Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Dykes Lane
description

Alternative name to Dikes Lane. Please see Dikes Lane

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1995
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Chapter House Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Chapter House Lane
description

Chapter House Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1891.

Located at or near: 203-205 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: St">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01315b.htm">St Paul's Cathedral Chapterhouse, adjacent, 197-203 Flinders Lane.

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. 133, 3, 34, 173). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Harper Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Harper Lane
description

Harper Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 394-396 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Robert">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM02658b.htm">Robert Harper, merchant, later Victorian, then Federal, MP.

Location is approximate.

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Campbell Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Campbell Arcade
description

Underground arcade.

Named 1955.

Located at or near: entry, 248 Flinders Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Councillor Robert Burns Campbell, Chairman, Public Works Committee.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1397
temporalCoverage 1955-01-01
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Haskin Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Haskin Lane
description

Haskin Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1955.

Located at or near: 106-108 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Henry Haskin, Haskin & Co., mantle manufacturers, 104-106 Flinders Lane.

Location is approximate.

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Fultons Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Fultons Lane
description

Fultons Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: discontinued.

Sometimes known as Fulton Lane. Not to be confused with a later (2015) Fulton Lane in a different location.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 547-549 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Thomas Fulton, foundry owner, likely same as future magistrate and city councillor.

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

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1438
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Mutual Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Mutual Arcade
description

Formerly Empire Arcade.

Named 1964.

Located at or near: 264-268 Flinders Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Mutual Store, 256-262 Flinders Street.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1405
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Barrys Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-13
name Barrys Lane
description

Alternative name to Barry Lane

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Hartnell Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Hartnell Lane
description

Previously known as Ellis Lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1958.

Located at or near: 58-62 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Hartnell House, Hartnell of Melbourne, frocks, 60-70 Flinders Lane.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1427
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Bear Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-13
name Bear Lane
description

Alternative name for Bear Alley.

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Spark Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Spark Lane
description

Spark Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1974.

Located at or near: 30-32 Flinders Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Alexander Brodie Spark, Crown grantee.

Location is approximate.

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Grimes Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Grimes Alley
description

Now known as Bourke Lane or Bourke Place.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 573-577 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Charles Grimes, Surveyor.

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. 57, 183). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

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Ellis Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Ellis Lane
description

Later known as Hartnell Lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1907.

Located at or near: 58-62 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Joseph Ellis & Sons Galvanised Iron Merchants, 60-64 Flinders Lane.

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

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Moore Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Moore Lane
description

Moore Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1907.

Located at or near: 17-19 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Dr William Moore, private hospital, 25 Little Flinders 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. 23). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Lister Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Lister Lane
description

Formerly Dikes Lane or Dykes Lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1936.

Located at or near: 60-64 Exhibition Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Lister House, adjacent, 61-65 Collins Street.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1429
temporalCoverage 1936-01-1
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Brewery Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Brewery Lane
description

Later known as Drewery Lane.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1996
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Francis Street [west]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Francis Street [west]
description

[west]

Named 1868.

Located at or near: 104-106 Spencer Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: James Goodall Francis, merchant, politician.

Location is approximate.

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Howitt Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Howitt Lane
description

Formerly Booth Lane.

Named 1905.

Located at or near: 8-12 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Dr Godfrey Howitt, Crown grantee, 1840.

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. 160, 187). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url
temporalCoverage 1905-01-01
keywords Placename

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Latrobe Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Latrobe Place
description

Alternative name to La Trobe Place. Please see La Trobe Place.

url
temporalCoverage 1856-01-01
keywords Placename

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Church Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Church Lane
description

Alternative name to Church Street. Please see Church Street.

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. 18, 191). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url
temporalCoverage 1857-01-01
keywords Placename

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Kitz Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Kitz Lane
description

Kitz Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1905.

Located at or near: 458-460 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Louis Kitz, L. Kitz & Sons, wine merchant, 460 Little Collins 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. 67). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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temporalCoverage 1905-01-01
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Roeszler Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Roeszler Lane
description

Roeszler Lane was classified as a partly private lane.

Named 1994.

Located at or near: 20-24 Bank Place.

Probable or possible origin of name: C.G. Roeszler and Son, engravers & rubber stamp makers, adjacent, 429 Little Collins 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. 138). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url
temporalCoverage 1994-01-01
keywords Placename

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Gallaghers Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Gallaghers Place
description

Gallaghers Place was classified as a public place.

Named 1862.

Located at or near: 585-589 Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Elizabeth Gallagher, proprietor, Rose of Australia Hotel, cnr Bourke & King sts.

Location is approximate.

url
temporalCoverage 1862-01-01
keywords Placename

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Scotts Court [arcade?]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Scotts Court [arcade?]
description

Arcade?

Status: Discontinued. Named 1914.

Located at or near: 432-434 Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Scotts Hotel, 438-444 Collins Street.

Location is approximate.

url
temporalCoverage 1914-01-01
keywords Placename

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Gurners Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Gurners Lane
description

Gurners Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 469-471 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Henry Gurner, Crown Solicitor.

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

url
temporalCoverage 1856-01-01
keywords Placename

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Portland Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Portland Place
description

Alternative name to Portland Lane. Please see Portland Lane.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1499
keywords Placename

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Temple Court [arcade/laneway of offices]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Temple Court [arcade/laneway of offices]
description

Arcade/laneway of offices.

Named 1857 (original building).

Located at or near: 422-428 Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Temple Court, London, one of the Inns of Court.

Location is approximate.

url
temporalCoverage 1857-01-01
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Henty Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Henty Lane
description

Henty Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1935.

Located at or near: 495-499 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Henty family, James Henty & Co., merchant & shipping agency, Little Collins Street.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1440
temporalCoverage 1935-01-01
keywords Placename

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McCrackens Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name McCrackens Lane
description

McCrackens Lane was classified as a partly private lane.

Status: Date TBC. Unnamed from 1855-1933. Named from 1933.

Located at or near: 525-529 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: McCracken's Brewery, adjacent.

Location is approximate.

url
temporalCoverage 1933-01-01
keywords Placename

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St James Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name St James Lane
description

Sometimes known as St James Place. 

St James Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1889.

Located at or near: 89-91 William Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: St James's Old Cathedral, adjacent, cnr William & Little Collins sts.

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

url
temporalCoverage 1889-01-01
keywords Placename

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Michael Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Michael Lane
description

Michael Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 453-457 Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Assid Michael, Britannia Hotel, 449-451 Bourke Street.

Location is approximate.

url
temporalCoverage 1907-01-01
keywords Placename

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Mitre Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Mitre Lane
description

Mitre Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named between 1915 and 1935.

Located at or near: 9-11 Bank Place.

Probable or possible origin of name: Mitre Tavern, 5-9 Bank Place.

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. 18, 169). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url
temporalCoverage 1915-01-01
keywords Placename

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Normanby Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Normanby Lane
description

Normanby Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 2007.

Located at or near: 428-430 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Normanby Chambers, 430-436 Little Collins Street.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1451
temporalCoverage 2007-01-01
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McNeil Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name McNeil Lane
description

McNeil Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Name 1907.

Located at or near: 389-391 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: McNeil & Bruce printers.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1907-01-01
keywords Placename

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Hicks Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Hicks Lane
description

Hicks Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1905. 

Located at or near: 367-369 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Hicks, Atkinson & Sons, furniture warehouse, draper, 369-371 Little Collins St.

Location is approximate.

url
temporalCoverage 1905-01-01
keywords Placename

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McKillop Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name McKillop Street
description

McKillop Street was classified as a public street.

Named 1864.

Located at or near: 421-425 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: J.P. McKillop, accountant and estate agent.

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. 151, 26-27). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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temporalCoverage 1864-01-01
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Briscoe Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Briscoe Lane
description

Briscoe Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 395-397 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Briscoe and Company, ironmongers, 391-395 Collins 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. 188). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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temporalCoverage 1907-01-01
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Carson Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Carson Place
description

Carson Place was classified as a public place.

Named 884.

Located at or near: 285-287 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: John Carson, Carson's Quality Footwear, Carson family, 287-289 Little Collins St.

Location is approximate.

url
temporalCoverage 1884-01-01
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Builders Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Builders Alley
description

Now site of Makers Lane arcade.

Status: Discontinued. Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 362-364 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Galvanised iron yards, nearby.

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. 26-27). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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temporalCoverage 1856-01-01
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Arcade Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Arcade Alley
description

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.

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Temple Court Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Temple Court Place
description

Temple Court Place was classified as a public place.

Named 1860.

Located at or near: 453-457 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Temple Court, lawyers' offices, adjacent, 422 Collins Street.

Location is approximate.

url
temporalCoverage 1860-01-01
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Juliet Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Juliet Lane
description

Sometimes Juliet Terrace

Now Liverpool Street.

Named 1858.

Located at or near: 50-54 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Shakespeare's heroine.

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. 91, 112, 6–7, 42, 172). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"The reports reveal that most buildings were way below street level. The reason is clear from the inspector's comment on a two-storey house at the corner of Lonsdale Street and Corrs Lane. The street level had been raised, making the lower rooms unhabitable. Rainwater fell in the yard, drained under the floor, and lay stagnant half a metre deep, as it did in many cases. The inspection party needed strong boots. They came away saddened and appalled by the filth, the stench, and the image of people living like pigs. Apart from Little Bourke Street, or yards behind it, most properties were in lanes and alleys off Little Bourke:Celestial Alley, Corrs Lane and its alleys, Davis Lane and alley, Hayward Lane, Heffernan Lane, Juliet Terrace, Kytes Lane, McIntyre Lane, Menzies Alley, Princess Place, Tattersalls Lane and Williams Lane. Princess Place and Juliet Terrace were near the famous Princess Theatre." p. 91.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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temporalCoverage 1858-01-01/1890-01-01
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Robertson Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Robertson Lane
description

Now Collins Way.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 379-381 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Robertson & Son, manufacturing jewellers & importers, 379 Little Collins St.

Location is approximate.

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Bennett Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Bennett Lane
description

Alternative naming of Bennetts Lane.

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Farmers Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Farmers Place
description

Later known as Coles Lane or sometimes Coles Place.

Status: Discontinued. Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 290-294 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Farmers Hotel, 294 Little Collins St.

Location is approximate.

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Howey House Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Howey House Arcade
description

Formerly site of section of Coles Book Arcade, later Sportsgirl Arcade, now incorporated into Collins Two3Four.

Named 1921.

Located at or near: 244-246 Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Howey family, heirs of Henry Howey.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1480
temporalCoverage 1921-01-01
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Howey Court

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Howey Court
description

Formerly section of Coles Book Arcade, later Sportsgirl Arcade/Court. Site of Collins Two2Four.

Status: Demolished. Named 1930.

Located at or near: 234-238 Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Howey family, heirs of Henry Howey.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1479
temporalCoverage 1930-01-01
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Sportsgirl Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Sportsgirl Arcade
description

Formerly Howey House Arcade. Site of Collins Two3Four.

Status: Demolished. Date named a. c1973-1974.

Located at or near: 244-250 Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Sportsgirl, fashion store, on site.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1487
temporalCoverage 1973-01-01
keywords Placename

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Sportsgirl Court

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Sportsgirl Court
description

Formerly Howey Court. Site of Collins Two3Four.

Named ca. 1973-1974.

Located at or near: 234-238 Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Sportsgirl, fashion store, on site.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1973-01-01
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Sportsgirl Centre

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Sportsgirl Centre
description

Now Collins Two3Four.

Named 1991.

Located at or near: 234-250 Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Sportsgirl, fashion store, owners/developers of site.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1488
temporalCoverage 1991-01-01
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Baptist Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Baptist Lane
description

Alternative name to Baptist Place. Please see Baptist Place.

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Presgrave Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Presgrave Arcade
description

Presgrave Arcade was classified as a public arcade.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1935.

Located at or near: 9-11 Howey Place.

Probable or possible origin of name: Presgrave Building, located within.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1935-01-01
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Manchester Unity Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Manchester Unity Arcade
description

Manchester Unity Arcade was classified as a public arcade.

Named 1932.

Located at or near: 220-226 Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows, Friendly Society.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1482
temporalCoverage 1932-01-01
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Presgrave Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Presgrave Place
description

Presgrave Place was classified as a public place.

Named 1915.

Located at or near: 9-13 Howey Pl.

Probable or possible origin of name: John Edwards Presgrave Howey.

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

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MU Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name MU Arcade
description

Alternative name to Manchester Unity Arcade. Please see Manchester Unity Arcade.

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Council House 2

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Council House 2
description

Covered lane/arcade.

Named 2006.

Located at or near: 286-290 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Melbourne">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00930b.htm">Melbourne City Council building.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1495
temporalCoverage 2006-01-01
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Barry's Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-13
name Barry's Lane
description

Alternative name to Barry Lane

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Portland Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Portland Lane
description

Also known as Portland Place and Georges Place.

Partly private.

Named 1911.

Located at or near: 164-166 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Portland Hotel, adjacent, cnr Little Collins & Russell sts.

Location is approximate.

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Goldie Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Goldie Place
description

Alternative name for Goldie Alley. Please see Goldie Alley

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/2000
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Coates Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Coates Lane
description

Formerly Coates Lane East/Coates Lane No.1.

Named 1872.

Located at or near: 23-25 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Walter Coates/Coates family, owners, adjacent land, then on Yarra bank, 1840.

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

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Tivoli Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Tivoli Arcade
description

Tivoli Arcade was classified as a private arcade.

Named 1970.

Located at or near: 235-241 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Tivoli">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01494b.htm">Tivoli Theatre, formerly on site.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1502
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Partner Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-16
name Partner Alley
description

Later known as Knox Lane or Knox Place. 

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St Michaels Walk

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name St Michaels Walk
description

St Michaels Walk was classified as a private walk.

Named 1995.

Located at or near: 120 Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: St Michaels Uniting Church, 122-136 Collins St, corner Russell St.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1510
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Southern Cross Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Southern Cross Lane
description

Southern Cross Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 2005.

Located at or near: 112-117 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Southern Cross Hotel, formerly on site.

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

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1509
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McGraths Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name McGraths Lane
description

Also known as McGrath Place and McGrath Lane. Now Burton Street. 

McGraths Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1873.

Located at or near: 67-71 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Patrick McGrath, tenant in lane.

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

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1515
temporalCoverage 1873-01-01
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Club Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Club Lane
description

Previously known as Collins Lane.

Named 1864.

Located at or near: 55-57 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Melbourne">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00931b.htm">Melbourne Club, adjacent, 36-50 Collins St.

Location is approximate.

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Southern Cross Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Southern Cross Arcade
description

Southern Cross Arcade was classified as a private arcade.

Status: Demolished. Named 1962.

Located at or near: part of Southern Cross Hotel complex.

Probable or possible origin of name: Southern Cross Hotel, cnr Bourke, Exhibition, Little Bourke Sts.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1962-01-01
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George Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name George Street
description

Alternative name for George Lane. Please see George Lane

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1999
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Lilly Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Lilly Lane
description

Now McIlwraith Place. Sometimes Lily Lane. 

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 53-57 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Johnathan Lilly, carter, or George R. Lilley, auctioneer.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1513
temporalCoverage 1856-01-01
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Collins Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Collins Place
description

Later known as Equitable Place.

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Donaldson Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Donaldson Lane
description

Previously known as Cyclorama Lane.

Named 1974.

Located at or near: 141-145 Russell Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Stuart Alexander Donaldson, Crown grantee, later Premier and Colonial Secretary, NSW.

Location is approximate.

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Drewery Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Drewery Place
description

Sometimes known as Drewery Place and sometimes known as Brewery Lane. Later known as Drewery Lane.

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Lily Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Lily Lane
description

Alternative name to Lilly Lane. Please see Lilly Lane.

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Westwood Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Westwood Place
description

Westwood Place was classified as a public place.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 73-75 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: James Westwood, carpenter, builder, Albion">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00049b.htm">Albion Hotel, Bourke Street.

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Ulster Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Ulster Lane
description

Ulster Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1871.

Located at or near: 91-93 Spring St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Ulster Family Hotel, adjacent, corner Spring & Little Collins streets.

Location is approximate.

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Blossoms Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Blossoms Alley
description

Alternative name for Blossom Alley.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1885
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McIlwraith Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name McIlwraith Place
description

Formerly Lilly Lane or Lily Lane.

Named 1943.

Located at or near: 53-57 Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: John McIlwraith, Melbourne mayor; founder, John McIlwraith and Co. Pty Ltd.

Location is approximate.

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Childs Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Childs Lane
description

Childs Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1877.

Located at or near: 637-639 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: William Child, butcher, 639 Little Bourke St.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1877-01-01
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Cleve Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Cleve Lane
description

Sometimes Cleve Alley.

Cleve Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 616-620 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Cleve's bonded warehouse, nearby, 573 Lonsdale St & 234-244 King St.

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

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Fitzroy Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Fitzroy Lane
description

Previously known as Cosgrave Lane and now again known as Cosgrave Lane.

Named 1868.

Located at or near: 591-593 Little Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Fitzroy Arms Hotel, cnr King & Little Bourke sts.

Location is approximate.

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Guests Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Guests Lane
description

Guests Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1926.

Located at or near: 514-518 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: T.B. Guest & Co. biscuit factory, adjacent, 207-221 William St.

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

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Grimes Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Grimes Lane
description

Alternative name to Grimes Alley. Please see Grimes Alley.

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

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Racing Club Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Racing Club Lane
description

Formerly Vinge Alley, Vengeance Lane.

Named 1895.

Located at or near: 375-377 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Racing Club Hotel, 377-379 Little Bourke St; offices of Victoria Racing Club.

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. 68-69). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Benjamin Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Benjamin Lane
description

Benjamin Lane was classified as a public lane.

Date named ca. 1935.

Located at or near: 456-458 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Benjamin">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM02191b.htm">Benjamin Benjamin, Melbourne mayor.

Location is approximate.

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Thomson Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Thomson Street
description

Thomson Street was classified as a public street.

Named 1924.

Located at or near: 475-477 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Thomson & Co, brassfounders and coppersmiths, Little Bourke Street.

Location is approximate.

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Vinge Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Vinge Alley
description

Previouslt known as Vengeance Lane, then Vinge Alley, now Racing Club Lane.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 397-401 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Foster & Vinge, coaching & carrying office, Bourke St.

Location is approximate.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1548
temporalCoverage 1856-01-01
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Synagogue Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Synagogue Lane
description

Later Bourke Lane, now Little Queen Street.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 478-480 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Melbourne Synagogue, 476 Bourke St.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1856-01-01
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Samson Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Samson Lane
description

Alternative name to Sampson Lane. Please see Sampson Lane.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1617
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Platypus Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Platypus Alley
description

Platypus Alley was classified as a private alley.

Named between 1996-1998.

Located at or near: 381-385 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Platypus Outdoors, store, adjacent, 385 Little Bourke St.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1996-01-01
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Bowen Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Bowen Place
description

Alternative name for Bowen Lane.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1887
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Crown Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Crown Lane
description

Sometimes known as Crown Place. 

Crown Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1887.

Located at or near: 421-425 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Crown Hotel, adjacent, cnr Lonsdale & Queen sts.

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

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1541
temporalCoverage 1887-01-01
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Crown Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Crown Place
description

Alternative name to Crown Lane. Please see Crown Lane.

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Kirks Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Kirks Lane
description

Formerly Vinge Alley, Vengeance Alley.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 397-401 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Kirk's Horse Bazaar, adjacent, east side.

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. 68–69). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Postal Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Postal Lane
description

Formerly GPO Lane. 

Named 2006. 

Located at or near: 321 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Melbourne General Post Office, adjacent, cnr Bourke, Elizabeth, Little Bourke sts.

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. 183, 169). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Can Melbourne's lanes continue to be the city's best-kept secret while at the same time being saturated with promotional material? Are the predominant historical narratives around Melbourne's lanes in danger of being fetishised into extinction? Only time will tell, but the historical understanding of their cultural significance that was so clearly articulated in Weston Bate's book will continue to be relevant. In the interim, the 'Arcades and Laneways' Melbourne walk is touted as the 'ultimate way to see Melbourne on foot, with its iconic' features and 'hidden hotspots' including Degraves Street (for street art and brunch), Centre Place ('offbeat shops'), Scott Alley, Cathedral Arcade, Manchester Lane (independent designers'), Block and Royal arcades, Hardware Lane, Warburton Lane, Whitehart Lane (for a cocktail), Rankins Lane, Somerset Place (coffee odyssey'), Driver Lane ('basement bar'), and Postal Lane (lush vertical garden). Meanwhile, off the heavily curated sections of the grid, the more humdrum and mundane of Melbourne's laneways await rediscovery and makeover, just going about their gritty business as they have for over a century and a half." p. 183.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1565
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Turners Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Turners Alley
description

Turners Alley was classified as a public alley.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 183-185 Swanston Stree.

Probable or possible origin of name: Alfred Turner, tobacconist & hairdresser, 181 Swanston St.

Location is approximate.

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Staughton Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Staughton Place
description

Staughton Place was classified as a private place.

Named 1885.

Located at or near: 295-297 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Samuel Staughton, pastoralist, parliamentarian.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1885-01-01
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The Strand

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name The Strand
description

Later known as City Centre Arcade. Also known as The Strand Arcade.

Status: Date TBC, 1915-1935 to c1976 (first building).

Located at or near: 240 Elizabeth Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Strand London, or Strand Arcade, Sydney.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1567
temporalCoverage 1915-01-01/1976-12-31
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Condells Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Condells Lane
description

Previously known as Volance Lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1864.

Located at or near: 316-318 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Henry Condell, brewer, first Melbourne">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00910b.htm">Melbourne mayor 1842-1844.

Location is approximate.

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Buckley Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Buckley Place
description

Alternative name to Buckley Alley. Please see Buckley Alley.

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Herald Passage

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Herald Passage
description

Later Angel lane or Angelo Lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1867.

Located at or near: 328-330 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Herald newspaper, adjacent, Bourke Street.

Location is approximate.

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Angel Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Angel Lane
description

Alternative name to Angelo Lane. Please see Angelo Lane.

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Lynch Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Lynch Place
description

Alternative name to Lynch Alley. Please see Lynch Alley.

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Bullens Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Bullens Lane
description

Partly private lane. Incorporates former Meares Lane.

Named 1879.

Located at or near: 175-177 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Frederick Bullen & Son, clothiers, nearby, cnr Russell & Little Bourke sts.

Location is approximate.

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Buckley Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Buckley Alley
description

Sometimes Buckley Place.

Buckley Alley was classified as a public alley.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1876.

Located at or near: 281-285 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Buckley & Nunn, adjacent, drapers, department store, adjacent, c310 Bourke St.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1876-01-01
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Caledonian Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Caledonian Lane
description

Caledonian Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 265-269 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Caledonian Hotel, adjacent, cnr Swanston & Lonsdale sts.

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, 67, 166, 178, 64-65). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Emporium

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Emporium
description

Arcade/mall.

Named 2014.

Located at or near: 369-321 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Myer">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01037b.htm">Myer Emporium building, department store, 285-321 Lonsdale St, repurposed/extended/facaded for current building.

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

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temporalCoverage 2014-01-01
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Bignells Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Bignells Lane
description

Now known as Market Lane.

Named 1853.

Located at or near: 122-124 Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Henry Bignell, landowner, butcher, crushing mills, Bourke St and Albert Lane.

Location is approximate.

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Commercial Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Commercial Lane
description

For a period, south end named Kytes Lane & Commercial Lane, now Paynes Place.

Named 1865.

Located at or near: 127-131 Little Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Commercial Coffee & Dining Rooms/Inn, adjacent.

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. 20, 112). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Stevenson Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Stevenson Lane
description

Stevenson Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1974.

Located at or near: 19-23 Tattersalls Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: J. Stevenson, Crown grantee.

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. viii, 136, 148, 199, 205). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Star Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Star Alley
description

Star Alley was classified as a public alley.

Named 1905.

Located at or near: 241-243 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Ballarat Star Hotel, adjacent, cnr Swanston & Little Bourke Sts.

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. 150, 160). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Meares Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Meares Place
description

Alternative name to Meares Lane. Please see Meares Lane.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1577
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Golden Fleece Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Golden Fleece Alley
description

Golden Fleece Alley was classified as a public alley.

Named 1915.

Located at or near: Coverlid Place.

Probable or possible origin of name: Golden Fleece Hotel, adjacent, cnr Russell & Little Bourke sts.

Location is approximate.

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Meares Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Meares Lane
description

Now incorporated into Bullens Lane. Sometimes known as Meares Place. 

Named 1868.

Located at or near: 161-163 Russell Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: George Meares, Melbourne mayor.

Location is approximate.

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Coverlid Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Coverlid Place
description

Previously known as Australia Felix Lane, then known as Healeys Lane or Healey Lane.

Named 1906.

Located at or near: 143-145 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Henry Coverlid, barber shop, 147 Little Bourke St.

Location is approximate.

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Dawsons Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Dawsons Place
description

Previously known as Lucas Place. Midtown Plaza arcade on site.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1885.

Located at or near: 192-196 Swanston St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Mrs E Dawson, resident in lane.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1885-01-01
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Globe Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Globe Alley
description

Globe Alley was classified as a public alley.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 244-246 Little Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Globe Hotel, adjacent, cnr Swanston & Little Bourke sts.

Location is approximate.

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Kmart Centre

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Kmart Centre
description

Arcade/department store. Formerly Target Centre.

Named 2021.

Located at or near: 222-244 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Kmart, department/variety store chain.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 2021-01-01
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La Trobe Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name La Trobe Place
description

Previously known as Davis Lane.

Named 1886.

Located at or near: 205-209 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Charles">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM02164b.htm">Charles LaTrobe, Lieutenant-governor, Victoria.

Location is approximate.

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Lacey Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Lacey Place
description

Lacey Place was classified as a public place.

Named 1867.

Located at or near: 122-124 Little Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Patrick Lacey, grocer, boarding house proprietor.

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

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Altson Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Altson Lane
description

Altson Lane was classified as a public lane.

Date 1907.

Located at or near: 589-593 Little Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: B.H. Altson, tobacconist, bulk store, 593 Little Lonsdale St.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1604
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Turnbull Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Turnbull Alley
description

Turnbull Alley was classified as a public alley.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 151-155 Spring Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Turnbull Bros.

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. 57, 146). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

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Juliet Terrace

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Juliet Terrace
description

Alternative name to Juliet Lane. Please see Juliet Lane.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1598
temporalCoverage 1858-01-01/1890-01-01
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Pembroke Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Pembroke Lane
description

Pembroke Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1910.

Located at or near: 637-639 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: James Pembroke, 637 Little Lonsdale St.

Location is approximate.

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Elliott Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Elliott Lane
description

Elliott Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1907.

Located at or near: 599-601 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Stevenson & Elliot, coachbuilders & ironmongers, 599 Little Lonsdale St.

Location is approximate.

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Smythe Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Smythe Lane
description

Smythe Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 101-103 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: James Smythe, grocer, adjacent, 93 Exhibition St.

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

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Merriman Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Merriman Lane
description

Merriman Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 611-615 Little Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Samuel Merriman, Merriman Bros & Co., brass foundry, c613-621 Little Lonsdale St.

Location is approximate.

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Mornane Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Mornane Place
description

Mornane Place was classified as a public place.

Named 1880.

Located at or near: 162-166 Exhibition St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Patrick Mornane, Clare Castle Hotel, 166-168 Exhibition St.

Location is approximate.

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Gordon Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Gordon Place
description

Gordon Place was classified as a public place.

Named 1904.

Located at or near: 14-18 Little Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Gordon House guesthouse, nearby, 24-38 Little Bourke St.

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. 171, 172). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Keeley Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Keeley Place
description

Keeley Place was classified as a public place.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1878.

Located at or near: 215-217 Spring St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Michael Keeley, Australasian Commercial & Family Hotel, cnr Spring & Lonsdale sts.

Location is approximate.

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Market Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Market Lane
description

Formerly Bignells Lane.

Named 1865.

Located at or near: 122-124 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Eastern Market, opposite, cnr Bourke, Exhibition/Stephen, Little Collins sts.

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. v, title page, ii, 41, 165, 166–167). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Waratah Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Waratah Place
description

First named Brogans Lane and then Williams Lane.

Status: Date 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. 133, 207). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Sutherland Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Sutherland Street
description

Formerly Bucks Head Lane, then named O'Leary Place.

Named 1865.

Located at or near: 289-293 La Trobe St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Andrew Sutherland, merchant.

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. 181, 46-47, 48-49, 74-75). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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St Bishoy Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name St Bishoy Lane
description

Formerly Union Place.

Named 2018.

Located at or near: 277-279 La Trobe St.

Probable or possible origin of name: St Verena & St Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Church, 285-287 La Trobe St.

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

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Rostella Way

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Rostella Way
description

Rostella Way was classified as a private way.

Named 2015.

Located at or near: 468-470 Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Rostella House, 486 Lonsdale Street.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1615
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Sampson Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Sampson Lane
description

Sampson Lane was classified as a private lane. Sometimes known as Samson Lane. 

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 370-372 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Samson Matthews, 370 Little Lonsdale St.

Location is approximate.

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Mitchell Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Mitchell Lane
description

Mitchell Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 1906.

Located at or near: 360-362 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: T. Mitchell & Co, brushmakers, 360 Lonsdale St; later, Mitchell House, adjacent, cnr Lonsdale & Elizabeth sts.

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

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Brophy Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Brophy Alley
description

Later known as Griffin Alley

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Gorman Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Gorman Lane
description

Alternative name for Gorman Alley. Please see Gorman Alley

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/2001
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Flanigan Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Flanigan Lane
description

Flanigan Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1911. An unlabeled lane following the path of Flanigan Lane can seen in the map "Melbourne">http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24001">Melbourne and its suburbs" (1855).

Located at or near: 31-35 Sutherland Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Leonard John Flannagan or his father, John, architects of Eastern Market.

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. 74–75, 77, 86, 143, 145). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Healeys Lane [west]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Healeys Lane [west]
description

[west]. Formerly Australia Felix Lane, now Coverlid Place?

Named 1884.

Located at or near: 549-551 Little Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Martin Healey, owner, adjacent land.

Location is approximate.

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Manton Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Manton Lane
description

Manton Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1887.

Located at or near: 570-572 Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Charles Manton, 568-570 Lonsdale Street.

Location is approximate.

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Exploration Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Exploration Lane
description

Exploration Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1892.

Located at or near: 114-116 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Exploration Hotel, possibly named for Burke">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00264b.htm">Burke & Wills expedition.

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, 22, 167). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url
temporalCoverage 1892-01-01
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St Francis Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name St Francis Street
description

Southern section: formerly Francis Street [east]; now unnamed PL5250; northern section: formerly McIntyre Lane, now discontinued.

Named 1902.

Located at or near: 307 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: St Francis's Church, adjacent, cnr Lonsdale & Elizabeth sts.

Location is approximate.

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Sniders Lane [north]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Sniders Lane [north]
description

[north]. Sometimes known as Snyders Lane. 

Named 1933.

Located at or near: 13-17 Drewery Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Sniders & Abrahams, cigarette manufacturer, store, 273-275 Little Lonsdale St & 270 Lonsdale St.

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

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Purves Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Purves Lane
description

Alternative name to Purvis Lane. Please see Purvis Lane. 

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1646
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Red Cape Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Red Cape Lane
description

Red Cape Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 2003.

Located at or near: 292 Swanston St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Nurses' red capes, Queen Victoria Hospital.

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

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D'Arcy Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name D'Arcy Alley
description

D'Arcy Alley was classified as a public alley.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1864.

Located at or near: 193 La Trobe Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Michael D'Arcy, Traveller's Rest/Home Hotel, cnr La Trobe & Swanston sts.

Location is approximate.

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Patrick Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Patrick Street
description

Patrick Street was classified as a public street.

Named 1859.

Located at or near: 291-295 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: St Patrick's Hotel.

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. 12, 61-63). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Purvis Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Purvis Lane
description

Now Davisons Place. Sometimes known as Purves Lane.

Named 1865.

Located at or near: 148-152 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Jane Purvis, Mrs Purvis, resident.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1865-01-01
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Francis Street [east]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Francis Street [east]
description

[east] Later St Francis St. South section: now unnamed PL5250; north section: formerly McIntyre Lane or McIntyre Street, now discontinued.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1893.

Located at or near: 310-312 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: St Francis's Church, adjacent, cnr Lonsdale & Elizabeth sts.

Location is approximate.

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Constance Stone Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Constance Stone Lane
description

Constance Stone Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 2003.

Located at or near: 200-204 Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Constance">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM02932b.htm">Constance Stone, first registered woman doctor in Australia.

Location is approximate.

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Evans Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Evans Lane
description

Previously part of Evans Lane was (St?) Patricks Lane.

Named 1854.

Located at or near: 96-100 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: George William Evans, surveyor, explorer.

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, 152). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Finn Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Finn Place
description

Finn Place was classified as a public place.

Status: Discontinued. Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 8-12 Little Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Edmund">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM02152b.htm">Edmund Finn, AKA 'Garryowen', Ireland-born journalist & author, 1880 history of Melbourne.

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. 102, 108). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Cosgrave Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-21
name Cosgrave Lane
description

Sometimes Cosgrove Lane. Later named Fitzroy Lane and then reinstated as Cosgrave Lane.

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

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

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Phoenix Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Phoenix Lane
description

Phoenix Lane was classified as a partly private lane.

Named 1999.

Located at or near: 345-347 King St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Phoenix clothing factory, 347-349 King Street.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1670
temporalCoverage 1999-01-01
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Bourke Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Bourke Place
description

Previously known as Grimes Alley.

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Brogans Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Brogans Lane
description

Later named Williams Lane and then Waratah Place.

Status: Date TBC. 

Location is approximate. 

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Collins Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-28
name Collins Lane
description

Later known as Club Lane

Status: Date TBC.

Located at or near: TBC.

Probable or possible origin of name: TBC.

Location is approximate.

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Electric Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Electric Place
description

Electric Place was classified as a public place.

Named 1941.

Located at or near: 190-192 A'Beckett St.

Probable or possible origin of name: C.W. Norris & Co, Electrical Engineers, adjacent, 192-194 A'Beckett St; or MCC Electric Supply Depot, 200-204 A'Beckett St.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1672
temporalCoverage 1941-01-01
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Eq Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Eq Arcade
description

Walkway/arcade.

Named 2017.

Located at or near: 127-141 A'Beckett St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Eq Tower, on site.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1677
temporalCoverage 2017-01-01
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Harwards Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Harwards Lane
description

Alternative name for Hayward Lane. Please see Hayward Lane

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/2004
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Jeffcott Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Jeffcott Street
description

Jeffcott Street was classified as a public street.

Named pre-1856.

Probable or possible origin of name: Sir William Jeffcott, judge, Supreme Court NSW for Port Phillip.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1669
temporalCoverage 1856-01-01
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Griffin Avenue

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Griffin Avenue
description

Alternative name to Griffin Alley. Please see Griffin Alley.

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Griffin Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Griffin Lane
description

Alternative name to Griffin Alley. Please see Griffin Alley.

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Leichardt Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Leichardt Lane
description

Part exists, building entry. Also known as Leichardt Street.

Named 1858.

Located at or near: 60-64 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Ludwig Leichhardt, explorer.

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. 55–55, 94, 103, 106). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1661
temporalCoverage 1858-01-01
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Leichardt Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Leichardt Street
description

Alternative name to Leichardt Lane. Please see Leichardt Lane.

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McCormacks Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name McCormacks Lane
description

McCormac/s Lane/Place.

McCormacks Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1893.

Located at or near: off Burton St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Thomas McCormack, McGrath Place.

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, 103, 104). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1665
temporalCoverage 1893-01-01
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McCormacks Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name McCormacks Place
description

Alternative name to McCormacks Lane. Please see McCormacks Lane.

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McCormack Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name McCormack Lane
description

Alternative name to McCormacks Lane. Please see McCormacks Lane.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1666
temporalCoverage 1893-01-01
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McCormack Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name McCormack Place
description

Alternative name to McCormacks Lane. Please see McCormacks Lane.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1668
temporalCoverage 1893-01-01
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Fulton Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Fulton Lane
description

Not to be confused with an earlier (named pre-1856) Fulton Lane or Fultons Lane that was discontinued. 

Fulton Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Date TBC, 2015.

Located at or near: 151-165 Franklin St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Fulton Street, bordering Queen Victoria Market until 1917; named for Thomas Fulton, magistrate and city councillor.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1678
temporalCoverage 2015-01-01
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Berrbang Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Berrbang Lane
description

Berrbang Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 2023.

Located at or near: 450-454 Queen Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Connection in Wurundjeri">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01629b.htm">Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1692
temporalCoverage 2022-01-01
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Lilardia Walk

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Lilardia Walk
description

Lilardia Walk was classified as a private walk.

Named 2021.

Located at or near: 362-370 Queen St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Margaret Tucker, Aboriginal activist, her Aboriginal name, Lilardia, meaning 'flower'.

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

"Rose Lane has been pedestrianised as part of the development and, like Watertank Way, has bollards across blocking through traffic. Across the road, its recently completed sister development, West Side Place, which includes a Ritz Carlton, is built on the site of the former Age newspaper office and has as one of its features 'open-air landscaped laneways'. This creation of laneways also features Heagney Passage, which is a short private entrance walkway off A'Beckett Street into the Queens Place development, and Lilardia Walk, providing entrance to the building off Queen Street. Heagney Passage is named for trade unionist and feminist Muriel Heagney (1885-1974), while Lilardia Walk was named after Aboriginal rights activist Margaret Tucker (1904-1996), Lilardia being her Aboriginal name, meaning flower." p. 146.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1680
temporalCoverage 2021-01-01
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Rodda Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Rodda Lane
description

Formerly Bowen Lane and/or Bowen Place.

Named 2011.

Located at or near: 170 La Trobe St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Stanley Northey Rodda, Executive Head, Working Men's College.

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

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1687
temporalCoverage 2011-01-01
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Pharmacy Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Pharmacy Place
description

Pharmacy Place was classified as a public place.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1920.

Located at or near: 366 Swanston Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: College of Pharmacy, 354-364 Swanston.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1686
temporalCoverage 1920-01-01
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Grant Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Grant Lane
description

Grant Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1959.

Located at or near: 351-353 Exhibition St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Melbourne">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00930b.htm">Melbourne councillor, Grant.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1688
temporalCoverage 1959-01-01
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Maloney Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Maloney Lane
description

Maloney Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1999.

Located at or near: 31-33 Dudley St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Dr William Maloney, Victorian Parliament.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1691
temporalCoverage 1999-01-01
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Dhanga Djeembana Walk

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Dhanga Djeembana Walk
description

Dhanga Djeembana Walk was classified as a private walk.

Named 2023.

Located at or near: 121 Therry St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Dhanga, 'meaning?'; Djeembana, 'a place to gather for special occasions' in Boon Wurrung.

Location is approximate.

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Kulinbulok Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Kulinbulok Lane
description

Kulinbulok Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 2023.

Located at or near: 428-432 Queen St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Community' in Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1695
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Empire Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Empire Place
description

Empire Place was classified as a private place.

Named 2018.

Located at or near: 73-75 A'Beckett St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Empire Building, adjacent, cnr Elizabeth & A'Beckett Sts.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1683
temporalCoverage 2018-01-01
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Colgin Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Colgin Place
description

Now unnamed PL5221.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 50-58 A'Beckett Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: John Colgin, undertaker, business owner in lane.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1856-01-01
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Flagstaff Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Flagstaff Lane
description

Flagstaff Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1999.

Located at or near: 11-13 Dudley St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Flagstaff">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00579b.htm">Flagstaff Gardens, Flagstaff Hill.

Location is approximate.

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temporalCoverage 1999-01-01
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Heape Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Heape Lane
description

Alternative name for Heape Court. Please see Heape Court

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Mackenzie Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Mackenzie Street
description

Mackenzie Street was classified as a public street.

Named 1857.

Located at or near: 376-380 Russell St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Alastair MacKenzie, Colonial Treasurer.

Location is approximate.

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Knox Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Knox Lane
description

Formerly Partner Alley, also at times Knox Place. [runs east-west] (currently Pl; formerly Little/Church Street)

Named 1878.

Located at or near: 192-194 Little Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: John Knox Church, adjacent, corner Little Lonsdale & Swanston streets.

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. 126, 127). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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O'Leary Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-16
name O'Leary Place
description

Previously named Bucks Head Lane, later named Sutherland Street.

Status: Date TBC.

Located at or near: 289-293 La Trobe Street.

Location is approximate.

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Park Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Park Street
description

Park Street was classified as a public street.

Named 1872.

Located at or near: 474-476 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Flagstaff Gardens, opposite, La Trobe, William, Dudley & King streets.

Location is approximate.

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West End Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name West End Lane
description

West End Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1974.

Located at or near: 324-328 Spencer Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: West End Hotel, adjacent, corner Spencer & La Trobe streets.

Location is approximate.

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Uniacke Court

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Uniacke Court
description

Uniacke Court was classified as a public court.

Named 1858. North section possibly visible in an 1840(?) map by Robert Russell (http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/114764).

">http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/114764">http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/114764).

Located at or near: 586-590 Little Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Robert Uniacke, nearby, 164 King 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. 177, 200). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Bucks Head Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Bucks Head Lane
description

First named Bucks Head Lane, then O'Leary Place, now Sutherland Street.

Named 1855. What appears to be the unlabeled southern and northern entry to the laneway can be seen on the 1853 map "Contours">https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/83D9B1FF-F843-11E9-AE98-A16788BE2840">Contours from Contoured Plan of Part of the City of Melbourne", and on the "The">http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/119520">The most complete popular and mercantile map of Melbourne (1853?)".

Located at or near: 286-288 Little Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Bucks Head Hotel, 288-292 Little Lonsdale St.

Location is approximate.

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McLean Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-16
name McLean Alley
description

McLean Alley was classified as a public lane.

Status: Date TBC. An unlabeled lane following the path of McLean Alley can seen in the map "Melbourne">http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24001">Melbourne and its suburbs" (1855). McLean Alley is featured on the map "Victoria">http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/114150">Victoria Insurance Map Company. The City of Melbourne Number Map" (1915).

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. 46-47, 73–74). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Warner Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Warner Lane
description

Warner Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907. The lane's east side is consistent with with property lines on the map "Plan of town of Melbourne, 1837 A.D first land sales held in Melbourne on 1st June & 1st November 1837" (http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/119504). 

">http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/119504">http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/119504). 

Located at or near: 532-536 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: HH Warner & Co. Ltd, medicine manufacturers, adjacent, 528-532 Little Lonsdale Street.

Location is approximate.

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Brights Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Brights Place
description

Brights Place is classified as a public lane. It is sometimes knows as Brights Alley and Brights Lane.

Status: Date TBC.

The southern section of Brights Place is visible but unlabeled in the Bibbs map (‘The Bibbs map: who made it, when and why? ’, Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, issue no. 18, 2020. ISSN 1832-2522.). What appears to be the southern entry to the laneway can be seen on the 1853 map "Contours">https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/83D9B1FF-F843-11E9-AE98-A16788BE2840">Contours from Contoured Plan of Part of the City of Melbourne". Again, unlabeled.

Location is approximate.

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Driver Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Driver Lane
description

Driver Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1974.

Located at or near: 322-326 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: C. Driver, Crown grantee.

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. 151, 183, 170). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Can Melbourne's lanes continue to be the city's best-kept secret while at the same time being saturated with promotional material? Are the predominant historical narratives around Melbourne's lanes in danger of being fetishised into extinction? Only time will tell, but the historical understanding of their cultural significance that was so clearly articulated in Weston Bate's book will continue to be relevant. In the interim, the 'Arcades and Laneways' Melbourne walk is touted as the 'ultimate way to see Melbourne on foot, with its iconic' features and 'hidden hotspots' including Degraves Street (for street art and brunch), Centre Place ('offbeat shops'), Scott Alley, Cathedral Arcade, Manchester Lane (independent designers'), Block and Royal arcades, Hardware Lane, Warburton Lane, Whitehart Lane (for a cocktail), Rankins Lane, Somerset Place (coffee odyssey'), Driver Lane ('basement bar'), and Postal Lane (lush vertical garden). Meanwhile, off the heavily curated sections of the grid, the more humdrum and mundane of Melbourne's laneways await rediscovery and makeover, just going about their gritty business as they have for over a century and a half." p. 183.

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Sargood Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Sargood Lane
description

Sargood Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 2009.

Located at or near: 26-30 Exhibition Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Sargood House, warehouse for Sargood Gardiner Limited, adjacent, 61-73 Flinders Lane.

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

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St Johns Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name St Johns Lane
description

St Johns Lane was classified as a commonwealth lane.

Sometimes known as St Johns Alley.

Status: Date TBC, pre-1856.

Located at or near: 432-434 Little Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: St Johns parish, La Trobe Street.

Location is approximate.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

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Coles Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Coles Lane
description

Previously known as Farmers Place. Site of Walk Arcade, Melbourne Walk. Sometimes known as Coles Place.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1875.

Located at or near: 290-294 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: John Cole, locksmith, scalemaker, bellhanger, adjuster, 290 Little Collins St. Other sources attribute to Edward William Cole, proprietor, Coles Book Arcade, however, the latter was still operating at Eastern Market at the time.

Location is approximate.

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Heape Court

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Heape Court
description

Sometimes known as Heape Lane. 

Heape Court was classified as a public court.

Named 1858.

Located at or near: 355-359 Little Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Benjamin Heape, merchant, pastoralist, Heape & Grice, warehouse, adjacent, rear, 361-365 Little 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. 133, 170, 74–75, 76, 154–155, 158). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Coles Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Coles Place
description

Alternative name to Coles Lane. Please see Coles Lane.

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Heffernans Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Heffernans Lane
description

Alternative name for Heffernan Lane. Please see Heffernan Lane

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Artemis Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Artemis Lane
description

Artemis Lane was classified as a private lane.

Date 2003.

Located at or near: 251 Russell Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Goddess of childbirth and nature, honouring Melbourne's Greek">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00672b.htm">Greek community.

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

"Redevelopment of the Queen Victoria Hospital site, which opened in stages from 2003 as Queen Victoria (QV) Village, saw the creation of new laneways' on the block bounded by Lonsdale, Little Lonsdale, Swanston, and Russell streets. Albert Coates Lane (soldier and leading surgeon at the hospital), Jane Bell Lane (hospital matron), Artemis Lane (Greek goddess of childbirth), Shilling Lane (1896 Queen Victoria shilling fundraiser), and Red Cape Lane (nurses' red capes) referenced the medical history of the site. To an extent these new lanes mirrored older urban patterns of the city, but as avatars of the form and function of their historical counterparts, to some they have a blander and less authentic feel." p. 139. 

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Bank Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Bank Place
description

Sometimes known as Bank Lane. 

Bank Place was classified as a partly private place.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 433-435 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Banks">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00155b.htm">Banks surrounding area, nineteenth century.

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. 18, 58, 61, 67, 138, 12, 18, 19, 130, 169). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"At the original centre of the city, west along Collins Street, lawyers and businessmen have long frequented the Mitre Tavern, its hitching post still standing in 1994. Some merely came downstairs from offices in Bank Place; others were in nearby Gurners and Church lanes. Lawyers were linked to the Supreme Court, and brokers, agents and financiers walked to and from the nearby Stock Exchange." p. 18. 

"Because only relatively high-value production justified a central location, Union Lane, off Little Collins Street near the heart of the city, contained electroplaters, brass finishers, locksmiths, an engraver and lapidary, a stereotyper, a wholesale newsagent, and a watchmaker in 1895. No dwellings remained. At the same time the offices of mining companies, which had dominated Tavistock Lane (earlier Tavistock Place, towards the west end of Flinders Lane) since the 1860s, were upgraded, and famous Bank Place, off Collins Street, was almost rebuilt to house solicitors, assignees, conveyancers, liquidators, accountants and (harbinger of further change) Mrs Walpole's typewriter office. Eldon Chambers sheltered the Society for the Assistance of Persons of Education (fallen on hard times?) and the Dragon Whist Club. At the Mitre Tavern John Garden provided business lunches, and in basements beneath Bank Place, conveniently, there were wine merchants. Alfred Place, at the Paris end of Collins Street, had sloughed off its earlier livery stables, builder's yard, cabinet maker, estate agent and boarding house in favour of a German Association and a firm of printers and publishers who produced Melbourne Punch, Once a Week and the Australasian Schoolmaster." p. 58.

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ACDC Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name ACDC Lane
description

Previously known as Corporation Lane.

ACDC Lane was classified as a public lane.

Located at or near: 103-105 Flinders Lane.

Origin of name: AC/DC, Australian rock band.

Location is approximate to within metres.

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. 181, 174, 175). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Music is part of Melbourne's laneway culture. In 2004 Corporation Lane off Flinders Lane was renamed AC/DC Lane to commemorate one of Australia's greatest rock bands. This plaque was funded by the state government's Rockin the Laneways program to honour Ronald Belford 'Bon Scott', the band's lead vocalist, who died in 1980 aged 34. The sculptor and artist, Mike Makatron, portrayed Bon Scott busting through the brickwork." p. 174.

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Adamson Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Adamson Lane
description

Adamson Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued.

1907 to at least 1965.

Located at or near: 13-15 William Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: W.U. Chester Adamson, manager, Babcock & Wilcox watertube boiler manufacturers and general engineers, 9 William Street.

Bate, W., Broome, R., Davis, N., May, A. J., & Stitt, H. (2024). The story of Melbourne’s lanes: Essential but unplanned (pp. 214). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

Location is approximate.

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Henderson Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Henderson Place
description

Alternative to Henderson Alley. Please see Henderson Alley

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Brown Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Brown Alley
description

Formerly named Murcutt Alley. Not to be confused with the Brown Alley now known as Dame Edna Place. 

Status: Date TBC.

Location is approximate. 

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Little La Trobe Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Little La Trobe Street
description

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

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Angelo Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Angelo Lane
description

Formerly Herald Passage.

Alternative name: Angel Lane.

Status: Discontinued. Date: 1880.

Located at or near: 313-315 Little Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Angelo">https://www.daao.org.au/bio/angelo-azzopardi/biography/">Angelo Azzopardi, Azzopardi, Hildreth & Co printers, nearby, Little Bourke St.

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

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Anthony Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Anthony Street
description

Anthony Street was classified as a public street.

Date 1925.

Located at or near: 140-144 A'Beckett St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Anthony's Saw Mills, timber yards, on site.

Location is approximate.

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Australia Felix Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Australia Felix Lane
description

Later known as Healeys Lane [east] and Healeys Lane [west] or sometimes Healey Lane, now known as Coverlid Place.

Named 1864.

Located at or near: 135-137 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Australia Felix Hotel, cnr Russell & Little Bourke sts.

Location is approximate.

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Balcombe Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-13
name Balcombe Place
description

Previously known as Bull Alley.

Status: Date 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. 170, 141). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"By the 2020s, events in the central city regularly make use of laneways as stages and screens for cultural performance. The annual White Night Melbourne festival (2013-2019), an iteration of the Nuit Blanche International (NBI) festival franchise, featured illuminations and projections in little streets including Degraves Street as well as the broader Flinders Lane precinct. Three decades earlier, these types of events were far less frequent. In 1991, Premier Joan Kirner opened the Flinders Lane Festival celebrating the human face of the city' featuring entertainment, information displays, stalls, crafts, food and buskers and sponsored by the City of Melbourne, while in 1992 John Truscott, artistic consultant to the state government and the City of Melbourne, presaged 'a new role for Melbourne's laneways': State and municipal governments finessed a range of policy settings in the 1990s to achieve an enriched central city by the new century. In 2000, some Melburnians still bemoaned the loss of lanes and quirky shops, critical too of the irony that the soon-to-be-opened Federation Square simulated the city's laneway-like spaces at the very moment that they were still being lost to larger-scale development. Others, however, were noticing a sea change in the overall image of the lanes in Melbourne's urban iconography and culture. During the Melbourne Festival in October 2000, spectators navigated their way through litter and rubbish bins to view trapeze artists performing 'Laneway Vignettes' in Balcombe Place and Sudgen Place off Little Collins Street, an unusual enough location for cultural performances to draw comment in the press that 'These are spaces we usually ignore. The Nine Network's Postcards travel series featured an episode on Melbourne's favourite lanes and arcades, part of a slow but certain centring of lanes in Melbourne's imaginary." p. 170.

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Argus Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Argus Alley
description

Argus Alley was classified as a public alley.

Status: Discontinued. Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 204-206 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Argus">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00085b.htm">Argus newspaper, adjacent, 199-207 Collins 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. 23, 112, 32). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougall's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p 23.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Athenaeum Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Athenaeum Place
description

Previously known as Sleights Lane. Sometimes known as Athenaeum lane.

Date 1937.

Located at or near: 221-233 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Melbourne">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00925b.htm">Melbourne Athenaeum, Athenaeum Theatre, adjacent, 184-192 Collins St.

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. 112, 10). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937." p. 112.

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Austral Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Austral Lane
description

Austral Lane was classified as a partly private lane.

Date 1932.

Located at or near: 417-421 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Austral Chambers, adjacent, 93-95 Queen St. Other sources: Bank">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00155b.htm">Bank of Australasia, SW corner Collins & Queen streets; or Australian">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00117b.htm">Australian Club, SE Corner Little Collins & William Streets.

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. 112, 141). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937." p. 112.

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Baskerville Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Baskerville Lane
description

Baskerville Lane was classified as a public lane.

Date named c2008-2023.

Located at or near: 222-224 La Trobe Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Margaret">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM02504b.htm">Margaret Francis Ellen Baskerville, sculptor.

Location is approximate.

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Beaney Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Beaney Lane
description

Beaney Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 64-68 Russell Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: James">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM02189b.htm">James Beaney, surgeon, member of Victorian">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01118b.htm">Victorian Parliament, house adjacent, corner Russell & Collins streets.

Location is approximate.

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Bennetts Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Bennetts Lane
description

Bennetts Lane was classified as a public lane. Sometimes Bennet Lane. 

Status: named pre-1856. What appears to be the unlabeled southern entry to a laneway can be seen on the 1853 map "Contours">https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/83D9B1FF-F843-11E9-AE98-A16788BE2840">Contours from Contoured Plan of Part of the City of Melbourne" and on the map "The">http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/119520">The most complete popular and mercantile map of Melbourne (1853?)".

Located at or near: 132-134 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Robert Bennett, Melbourne mayor, 1861-1862.

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. 90, 156, 166, 53, 91, 152). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"By the end of the 1990s, laneways and sm Mistreet had become a key locus for Melbournes burgeoning bar culture, with Misty-S Hosier Lane, behind the 78G building), Meyers Place (20 Meyers Place, the prototype new-school Melbourne bar, opened in 1994 by Six Degrees Architects in a defunct hair salon), Hell's Kitchen (20 Centre Place), the Gin Palace (Russell Place), Becco (11 Crossley Street, opened 1996), Rue Bebelons (267 Little Lonsdale Street, closed 2013), Hairy Canary (212 Little Collins Street, 1997-2017), Double-O (Sniders Lane), and Troika (106 Little Lonsdale Street) being touted as some of the most popular.Tiny', hidden, secret, and intimate' were becoming the catchphrase descriptors of a new culture of reclusive or rooftop venues that signalled Melbourne's late 1990s renaissance. Bennetts Lane, the eponymous jazz club, a catalyst for local performers as well as hosting international acts, opened in a lane off Little Lonsdale Street in 1992 (closed 2017). St Jerome's, opened in 2004 on the site of The Old Swiss Café in Caledonian Lane, and closed 2009, spawned the eponymous St Jerome's Laneway Festival, a concept later expanded to other Australian cities.Similarly, fashion labels such as Alice Euphemia (Cathedral Arcade, Flinders Lane 1997-2014), often run as collectives championing young independent designers, opened retail stores in Melbourne's more discreet arcades and lanes." p. 166. 

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Baptist Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Baptist Place
description

Baptist Place is classified as a public lane.

Alternative name: sometimes Baptist Lane. 

Named pre-1856. Possibly visible in 1840(?) map by Robert Russell (http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/114764).

">http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/114764">http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/114764).

Located at or near: 207-209 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Baptist">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00157b.htm">Baptist Chapel, adjacent, 170-174 Collins 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. 11, 140). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Bridges ad more bridges over Baptist Place off Little Collins Street. From inside Victoria Hotel, just up from Swanston Street, these are corridors momentarily without rooms. " p. 11.

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Barrett Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-13
name Barrett Alley
description

Status: Discontinued/demolished/filled in/built over.

Location: TBC, near Chancery Lane. Can be seen on C.H. Powis 1915 map.

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

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Batman Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-08
name Batman Place
description

Batman Place was classified as a public place.

Status: Discontinued, date TBC 1895-1915.

Located at or near: 64-66 Spencer Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Batman Hotel, 66-70 Spencer Street.

Location is approximate.

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Tankards Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Tankards Place
description

Now Barry Lane.

Named 1892.

Located at or near: 437-439 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Tankards Temperance Hotel, adjacent, 439-441 Lonsdale St.

Location is approximate.

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Samuel Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Samuel Lane
description

Samuel Lane was classified as a partly private lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 374-376 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: E. Samuel & Co, merchants & importers, 376 Flinders Lane.

Location is approximate.

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Block Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Block Place
description

Formerly Carpenters Lane.

Named 1896.

Located at or near: 315-317 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Block Arcade, 'The">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00479b.htm">The Block'.

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. 79, 82, 12, 84). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Brien Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Brien Lane
description

Brien Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1872.

Located at or near: 135-137 Little Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Joseph Brien, butcher, present in 1848.

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. 173, 88-89, 142, 148). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Blossom Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Blossom Alley
description

Later known as Barkly Place

Sometimes known as Blossoms Alley.

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

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Carpenters Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Carpenters Lane
description

Later becomes Block Place

Status: Date 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. 79, 82, 12, 84). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Bowen Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Bowen Lane
description

Also known as Bowen Place. Now known as Rodda Lane.

Status: Date 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. 181). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Benson Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Benson Lane
description

Benson Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 83-85 Exhibition Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Edward A Benson, dentist, 83 Exhibition St and/or Kenneally & Benson, farriers, 85 Exhibition St.

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

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Barkly Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Barkly Place
description

Previously known as Blossom Alley.

Status: Date 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. 22). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Bligh Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Bligh Place
description

Bligh Place was classified as a public place.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 308-310 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Bligh & Harbottle, merchants, warehouse, Flinders Lane.

Location is approximate.

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Benson Walk

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Benson Walk
description

Benson Walk was classified as a private walk. See also Benson Lane.

Date named 2020-2021.

Located at or near: 87-91 Exhibition Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Benson Lane (discontinued), nearby, 83-85 Exhibition St.

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

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Block Court

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Block Court
description

Arcade.

Named 1930.

Located at or near: 288-292 Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Block Arcade, 'The">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00479b.htm">The Block'.

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. 79, 84). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Bowen Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Bowen Street
description

Bowen Street was classified as a private street.

Named 1893.

Located at or near: 9 Franklin St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Sir">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00659b.htm">Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor, Victoria.

Location is approximate.

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Sugden Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Sugden Place
description

Sugden Place was classified as a public place.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 274-276 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: William Johnson Sugden, Chief. Melbourne City Police; later, Royal Mail Hotel.

Location is approximate.

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Browns Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-13
name Browns Lane
description

Formerly Bear Alley, later Penfold Place. Browns Lane (now Penfold Place) is not to be confused with Brown Lane (now Dame Edna Place).  Also not to be confused with the Brown Alley that was first Murcutt Alley.

Status: Date TBC, 1916.

Located at or near: 396-400 Little Collins 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. 66). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Winfield Square

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Winfield Square
description

Also known as Rialto Lane, now unnamed. Covered/interior lane since 1985.

Status: Unnamed. Dates TBC, named c1895.

Located at or near: 466-468 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Winfield">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/bib/PEM000739.htm">Winfield Building, also the Wool Exchange, 487-495 Collins Street. The building was possibly named after the square.

Location is approximate.

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Murcutt Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Murcutt Alley
description

Now Brown Alley.

Sometimes Murcott Alley.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 577-579 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Robert Murcutt, Soda Water Manufacturer, 91 Little Bourke St West.

Location is approximate.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1533
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Stubbs Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Stubbs Lane
description

Stubbs Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 497-499 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Mrs Pauline E. Stubbs, licensee, New Zealand Hotel, 491-497 Flinders Lane.

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

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Staughton Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Staughton Alley
description

Staughton Alley was classified as a public alley.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 300-302 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Simon Staughton, pastoralist & banker.

Location is approximate.

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Brown Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Brown Alley
description

Now Dame Edna Place. Not to be confused with the Brown Alley now known as Murcutt Alley

Status: Date 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. 181, 176). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Buckland Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Buckland Place
description

Now unnamed PL5218.

Named 1925.

Located at or near: 137-139 Franklin Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Wm. L. Buckland, Pty Ltd, motor and cycle accessories, 139–141 Franklin St.

Location is approximate.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1676
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Dame Edna Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Dame Edna Place
description

Previously known as Brown Alley.

Named 2007.

Located at or near: 305-309 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Australian entertainer, Dame Edna Everage (AKA, actor, Barry">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01477b.htm">Barry Humphries).

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. 181, 176, 181). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Centreway Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-21
name Centreway Arcade
description

Somtimes know as Centerway Arcade.

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. 79, 3, 30, 180). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Central Laneway

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-21
name Central Laneway
description

Status: Date TBC.

Located at or near: Driveway, West Side Place/Ritz Carlton.

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

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Coles Book Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Coles Book Arcade
description

Arcade/shop. Collins Street to Little Collins Street section, later site of Howey House Arcade.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1883.

Located at or near: 299-303 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Edward William Cole, proprietor. Store ran through Little Collins Street to 252 Collins Street and Howey Lane by early 1900s.

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. 78-79, 83). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Chester Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-21
name Chester Lane
description

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

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Cathedral Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Cathedral Arcade
description

Cathedral Arcade was classified as a public arcade.

Named 1926.

Located at or near: 33-41 Swanston Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: St">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01315b.htm">St Paul's Cathedral, opposite, corner Swanston & Flinders streets.

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. 166, 183). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"By the end of the 1990s, laneways and small streets had become a key locus for Melbourne's burgeoning bar culture, with Misty (3-5 Hosier Lane, behind the T&G building), Meyers Place (20 Meyers Place, the prototype new-school Melbourne bar, opened in 1994 by Six Degrees Architects in a defunct hair salon), Hell's Kitchen (20 Centre Place), the Gin Palace (Russell Place), Becco (11 Crossley Street, opened 1996), Rue Bebelons (267 Little Lonsdale Street, closed 2013), Hairy Canary (212 Little Collins Street, 1997-2017), Double-O (Sniders Lane), and Troika (106 Little Lonsdale Street) being touted as some of the most popular. "Tiny, hidden, 'secret, and 'intimate' were becoming the catchphrase descriptors of a new culture of reclusive or rooftop venues that signalled Melbourne's late 1990s renaissance. Bennetts Lane, the eponymous jazz club, a catalyst for local performers as well as hosting international acts, opened in a lane off Little Lonsdale Street in 1992 (closed 2017). St Jerome's, opened in 2004 on the site of The Old Swiss Café in Caledonian Lane, and closed 2009, spawned the eponymous St Jerome's Laneway Festival, a concept later expanded to other Australian cities. Similarly, fashion labels such as Alice Euphemia (Cathedral Arcade, Flinders Lane 1997-2014), often run as collectives championing young independent designers, opened retail stores in Melbourne's more discreet arcades and lanes." p. 166. 

"Can Melbourne's lanes continue to be the city's best-kept secret while at the same time being saturated with promotional material? Are the predominant historical narratives around Melbourne's lanes in danger of being fetishised into extinction? Only time will tell, but the historical understanding of their cultural significance that was so clearly articulated in Weston Bate's book will continue to be relevant. In the interim, the 'Arcades and Laneways' Melbourne walk is touted as the 'ultimate way to see Melbourne on foot, with its iconic' features and 'hidden hotspots' including Degraves Street (for street art and brunch), Centre Place ('offbeat shops'), Scott Alley, Cathedral Arcade, Manchester Lane (independent designers'), Block and Royal arcades, Hardware Lane, Warburton Lane, Whitehart Lane (for a cocktail), Rankins Lane, Somerset Place (coffee odyssey'), Driver Lane ('basement bar'), and Postal Lane (lush vertical garden). Meanwhile, off the heavily curated sections of the grid, the more humdrum and mundane of Melbourne's laneways await rediscovery and makeover, just going about their gritty business as they have for over a century and a half." p. 183.

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Ramsay Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Ramsay Lane
description

Ramsay Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 560-562 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Thompson, Fraser, Ramsay, Pty Ltd, merchants, 562-564 Bourke St; or, Reverend A.M. Ramsay, United Presbyterian Church.

Location is approximate.

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Nicholson Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Nicholson Place
description

Nicholson Place was classified as a public place.

Named ca. 1895. The lane is consistent with with property lines on the map "Plan of town of Melbourne, 1837 A.D first land sales held in Melbourne on 1st June & 1st November 1837" (http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/119504).

">http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/119504">http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/119504).

Located at or near: 524-528 Little Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Mrs Ann Nicholson, adjacent, 530 Little Lonsdale Street, 1895.

Location is approximate.

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Crombie Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-21
name Crombie Lane
description

Status: Date TBC, earliest known 1858.

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. 18, 57). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

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Corporation Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Corporation Lane
description

Now ACDC Lane.

Status: Date TBC, 1905-2004.

Located at or near: 103-105 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Corporation Yards, nearby, 91 Flinders Lane.

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. 23, 181, 174). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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The Causeway

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-21
name The Causeway
description

First named Darby Alley and then later named Craigs Lane.

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. 138, 78-79). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Church Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Church Street
description

Church Street was classified as a public street. Also inclusive of Church Lane?

Named 1857.

Located at or near: 516-520 Little Collins Street & 515-517 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: St">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01303b.htm">St James Church (Old Cathedral), 499-505 Little Collins 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. 24-25). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Custom House Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Custom House Lane
description

Previously known as Murphys Lane.

Named 1876.

Located at or near: 450-452 Flinders Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Customs">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00432b.htm">Customs House, nearby, 400 Flinders 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. 61, 112). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Burns Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Burns Lane
description

Now Hardware Street/Hardware Lane.

Named 1859.

Located at or near: 392-394 Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Robert Burns Hotel, 390-392 Lonsdale St; Robert Burns, Scottish poet.

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. 73, 74-75). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Croft Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-21
name Croft Alley
description

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. 176, 181, 134, 148, 196-197, 199). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Cumberland Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-21
name Cumberland Place
description

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. 22, 98, 110). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Flinders Way

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-23
name Flinders Way
description

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

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Goldie Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-23
name Goldie Alley
description

Sometimes Goldie Place. 

Status: Date TBC, earliest known 1858.

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. 18, 57, 160). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

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Gorman Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-23
name Gorman Alley
description

Sometimes known as Gorman Lane.

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

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Pink Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Pink Alley
description

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. 38-39, 51). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Freemasons Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Freemasons Lane
description

Freemasons Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1907.

Located at or near: 34-36 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Freemasons">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00611b.htm">Freemasons Hall, adjacent, 25-31 Collins 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. 23, 23). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Davis Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-23
name Davis Lane
description

Now known as La Trobe 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. 91, 92). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"The reports reveal that most buildings were way below street level. The reason is clear from the inspector's comment on a two-storey house at the corner of Lonsdale Street and Corrs Lane. The street level had been raised, making the lower rooms unhabitable. Rainwater fell in the yard, drained under the floor, and lay stagnant half a metre deep, as it did in many cases. The inspection party needed strong boots. They came away saddened and appalled by the filth, the stench, and the image of people living like pigs. Apart from Little Bourke Street, or yards behind it, most properties were in lanes and alleys off Little Bourke:Celestial Alley, Corrs Lane and its alleys, Davis Lane and alley, Hayward Lane, Heffernan Lane, Juliet Terrace, Kytes Lane, McIntyre Lane, Menzies Alley, Princess Place, Tattersalls Lane and Williams Lane. Princess Place and Juliet Terrace were near the famous Princess Theatre." p. 91.

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Dean Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-23
name Dean Alley
description

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

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Dikes Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-23
name Dikes Lane
description

Later known as Lister Lane. Sometimes known as Dykes Lane.

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

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George Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-23
name George Lane
description

Sometimes known as George Street. Now unnamed interior lane, Telstra Centre, since 1992.

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. 90, 96–97, 99, 109). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Goldsbrough Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Goldsbrough Lane
description

Goldsbrough Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1905.

Located at or near: 544-546 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Richard Goldsbrough, Gouldsbrough Mort woolstore, 546-560 Bourke St.

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. x-1, 128, 129, 185). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Jones Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Jones Lane
description

Also known as Green Lane in 1895. 

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

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Hayward Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Hayward Lane
description

Also known as Harwards Lane. Previously North + South.

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

"The reports reveal that most buildings were way below street level. The reason is clear from the inspector's comment on a two-storey house at the corner of Lonsdale Street and Corrs Lane. The street level had been raised, making the lower rooms unhabitable. Rainwater fell in the yard, drained under the floor, and lay stagnant half a metre deep, as it did in many cases. The inspection party needed strong boots. They came away saddened and appalled by the filth, the stench, and the image of people living like pigs. Apart from Little Bourke Street, or yards behind it, most properties were in lanes and alleys off Little Bourke:Celestial Alley, Corrs Lane and its alleys, Davis Lane and alley, Hayward Lane, Heffernan Lane, Juliet Terrace, Kytes Lane, McIntyre Lane, Menzies Alley, Princess Place, Tattersalls Lane and Williams Lane. Princess Place and Juliet Terrace were near the famous Princess Theatre." p. 91.

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La Trobe Parade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name La Trobe Parade
description

Now George Parade.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 113-115 Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Charles">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM02164b.htm">Charles La Trobe, Lieutenant-governor, Victoria.

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. 23, 134, 58-59). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Gresham Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-23
name Gresham Street
description

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

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1923
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Greville Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-23
name Greville Place
description

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. 89, 90). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1924
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Guildford Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-16
name Guildford Lane
description

Sometimes known as Guildford Street. 

Guildford Lane is classified as a public lane.

Status: Date TBC. An unlabeled lane following the path of Guildford Lane can seen in the map "Melbourne">http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24001">Melbourne and its suburbs" (1855). Guildford Lane is featured on "Plan">http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24043">Plan No. 25 City of Melbourne (1895?)".

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. 162, 176, 178, 181-183, 46-47, 48-49, 74-75, 156-157, 158-159). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1698
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Harwood Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Harwood Place
description

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

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1926
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Hay Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Hay Place
description

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

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1929
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Merlin Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Merlin Alley
description

Sometimes known as Merlin Lane. 

Status: Date TBC, earliest known 1858.

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. 22, 57). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1940
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Merritts Lane [west]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Merritts Lane [west]
description

[west] Sometimes known as Merritts Place and Merretts Lane/Place [east].

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

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1939
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Mill Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Mill Place
description

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

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1937
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Mercantile Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Mercantile Alley
description

Sometimes known as Mercantile Lane or Mercantile 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. 195). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1941
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Merretts Place [east]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Merretts Place [east]
description

[east] Sometimes known as Merrets Place and Merritts Lane/Place [west].

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. 22, 94-95). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Jane Bell Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Jane Bell Lane
description

Jane Bell Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 2003.

Located at or near: 263 Russell St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Jane Bell, Matron Royal Melbourne Hospital.

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

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Katherine Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Katherine Place
description

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

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Literature Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Literature Lane
description

Literature Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 2012.

Located at or near: 16-18 Little La Trobe St.

Probable or possible origin of name: National Year of Reading, 2012.

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

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1684
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Lonsdale Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Lonsdale Lane
description

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

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Louden Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Louden Place
description

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

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Meyers Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Meyers Place
description

Formerly Nicholas Lane.

Named 1915.

Located at or near: 32-34 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Samuel Meyers, ice cream maker, 34 Little Collins St.

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. 166, 178, 181, 161, 172, 178). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Lynch Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Lynch Alley
description

Sometimes known as Lynch Place.

Lynch Alley was classified as a public alley.

Status: Discontinued. Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 288-292 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: James Lynch, grocer, 286-288 Little Bourke 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). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Malthouse Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Malthouse Lane
description

Formerly Wilson Lane, Conquest Lane.

Named 1905.

Located at or near: 85-87 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Burston's Malthouse, adjacent.

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

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Monaghan Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Monaghan Place
description

Monaghan Place was classified as a public place.

Named 1858.

Located at or near: 222-226 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Monaghan's Queens Arms Hotel, 1845.

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

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New Chancery Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name New Chancery Lane
description

New Chancery Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 2006. 

Located at or near: 481-485 Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Chancery House, 485 Bourke St, and/or Chancery Lane (former colloquial name for section of Little Collins St).

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. 172, 193). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Niagara Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Niagara Lane
description

Formerly Millers Lane.

Named 1863.

Located at or near: 381-383 Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Niagara Hotel, 383-387 Lonsdale St. Ship on which hotel owners arrived in Melbourne.

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. 18, 133, 20, 70, 71). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Olivers Lane [west]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Olivers Lane [west]
description

[west]. Sometimes known as Oliver Lane, Olivers Place, and Oliver 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. 68–69). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1948
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Melbourne Central [interior lanes]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Melbourne Central [interior lanes]
description

[interior lanes/arcade/mall]

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. 12, 79, 101, 134, 49, 127). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1946
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Madame Brussels Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Madame Brussels Lane
description

Partly formed by sections of former Eagle Alley/Little Leichardt Street.

Named ca. 2007.

Located at or near: 36-38 Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Caroline Hodgson, AKA 'Madame Brussels', brothel-owner, businesswoman.

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. 151, 182). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Rothsay Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Rothsay Lane
description

Formerly Weres Alley or Were Alley.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 279-281 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Duke of Rothsay Hotel, adjacent, 24-26 Elizabeth 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. 25). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Paynes Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Paynes Place
description

Formerly Kytes Lane, Commercial Lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 127-131 Little Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: John Payne, draper, Paynes Bon Marché, adjacent, 134-144 Bourke St.

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. 112, 11). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Windsor Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Windsor Lane
description

Alternative name for Windsor Lane. Please see Windsor Lane.

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Princess Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Princess Lane
description

Sometimes known as Princess Place. Previously known as Punch Lane and now known as Punch Lane. 

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

"The reports reveal that most buildings were way below street level. The reason is clear from the inspector's comment on a two-storey house at the corner of Lonsdale Street and Corrs Lane. The street level had been raised, making the lower rooms unhabitable. Rainwater fell in the yard, drained under the floor, and lay stagnant half a metre deep, as it did in many cases. The inspection party needed strong boots. They came away saddened and appalled by the filth, the stench, and the image of people living like pigs. Apart from Little Bourke Street, or yards behind it, most properties were in lanes and alleys off Little Bourke:Celestial Alley, Corrs Lane and its alleys, Davis Lane and alley, Hayward Lane, Heffernan Lane, Juliet Terrace, Kytes Lane, McIntyre Lane, Menzies Alley, Princess Place, Tattersalls Lane and Williams Lane. Princess Place and Juliet Terrace were near the famous Princess Theatre." p. 91.

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Queens Walk

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Queens Walk
description

[arcade]

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. 34-35). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Quirk Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Quirk Alley
description

Sometimes known as Quirk Lane.

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

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Ryrie Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Ryrie Lane
description

Sometimes known as Ryrie 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. 188). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Penfold Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Penfold Place
description

Formerly Bear Alley, Browns Lane.

Named 1917-1918.

Located at or near: 396-400 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Penfold House, wine company, adjacent, 114-116 Queen St.

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

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Providence Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Providence Lane
description

Sometimes known as Providence 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. 104). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Punch Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Punch Lane
description

First known as Punch Lane, then known as Princess Lane, and now known as Punch Lane again.

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. 116, 117, 171, 172). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Queens Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Queens Arcade
description

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. 146, 29). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Windsor Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Windsor Place
description

Sometimes known as Windsor Lane. 

Previously known as Lang Lane.

Status: Date TBC, earliest known 1943.

Located at or near: 15-19 Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Hotel">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01625b.htm">Hotel Windsor, adjacent, corner Bourke, Spring & Little Collins streets.

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

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Langs Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Langs Lane
description

Alternative name to Lang Lane. Please see Lang Lane

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1971
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Scott Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Scott Alley
description

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. 183, 168). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Can Melbourne's lanes continue to be the city's best-kept secret while at the same time being saturated with promotional material? Are the predominant historical narratives around Melbourne's lanes in danger of being fetishised into extinction? Only time will tell, but the historical understanding of their cultural significance that was so clearly articulated in Weston Bate's book will continue to be relevant. In the interim, the 'Arcades and Laneways' Melbourne walk is touted as the 'ultimate way to see Melbourne on foot, with its iconic' features and 'hidden hotspots' including Degraves Street (for street art and brunch), Centre Place ('offbeat shops'), Scott Alley, Cathedral Arcade, Manchester Lane (independent designers'), Block and Royal arcades, Hardware Lane, Warburton Lane, Whitehart Lane (for a cocktail), Rankins Lane, Somerset Place (coffee odyssey'), Driver Lane ('basement bar'), and Postal Lane (lush vertical garden). Meanwhile, off the heavily curated sections of the grid, the more humdrum and mundane of Melbourne's laneways await rediscovery and makeover, just going about their gritty business as they have for over a century and a half." p. 183.

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The Strand Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name The Strand Arcade
description

Sometimes simply The Strand. Later known as City Centre Arcade.

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

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Strachan Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Strachan Lane
description

Strachan Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 63-67 Exhibition Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: George Simpson Strachan, adjacent, George Strachan & Co, importers.

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

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Surry Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Surry Place
description

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

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Sherwood Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Sherwood Place
description

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

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Rankins Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Rankins Lane
description

Rankins Lane was sometimes known as Rankin Lane, Rankins Alley and Rankin Alley.

Rankins Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1864.

Located at or near: 359-361 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: John Rankin, early Melbourne builder.

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. 18, 67, 162, 170, 183, 71, 158). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Rialto Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Rialto Lane
description

Alernatieve name for Winfield Square. Please see Winfield Square

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1970
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Ridgway Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Ridgway Street
description

Sometimes known as Ridgway 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. 150). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Brights Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Brights Lane
description

Alternative name to Brights Place. Please see Brights Place.

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Casselden Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-28
name Casselden Lane
description

Alternative name for Casselden Place. Please see Casselden Place.

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1975
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Healey Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Healey Lane
description

Alternative name to Healeys Lane. Please see as Healeys Lane [east] and/or Healeys Lane [west].

url https://tlcmap.org/publicdatasets/1972
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Lang Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Lang Lane
description

Sometimes known as Langs Lane. [east]. Now Windsor Place.

Status: Date TBC, 1893.

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

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Shilling Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Shilling Lane
description

Shilling Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 2003.

Located at or near: 210 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Queen Victoria Shilling Fund.

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

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Zevenboom Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Zevenboom Lane
description

Zevenboom Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1916. An unlabeled lane following the path of Zevenboom Lane can seen in the map "Melbourne">http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24001">Melbourne and its suburbs" (1855).

Located at or near: 270-274 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: John Zevenboom (earlier, Wynand Zevenboom, Zevenboom & Thompson), brush manufacturer, nearby, 280 Little Lonsdale St.

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

"Zevenboom Lane, named after ninteenth-century broom maker John Zevenboom has already felt the pain of 'Rafferty the Wrecker' and will soon show a different face." p. 152.

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Alsop Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Alsop Lane
description

Sometimes spelled Allsop Lane. 

Alsop Lane was classified as a public lane.

Date 1907.

An unlabeled laneway following the path of Alsop Lane can be seen on the map "Plan">http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24043">Plan No. 25 City of Melbourne (1895?)".

Located at or near: 442-446 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Henry J Alsop, manager, The Storage and Contracting Co Ltd, 448-456 Little Lonsdale Street.

Location is approximate.

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Sleights Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Sleights Lane
description

Previously Athenaeum Place.

Named 1937.

Located at or near: 221-233 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: John Sleight, undertaker, adjacent, 71 Collins St E.

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

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Healeys Lane [east]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Healeys Lane [east]
description

Sometimes known as Healeys Alley, Healey Alley, and Healey Lane. [east] Formerly Australia Felix Lane, now Coverlid Place.

Named 1879.

Located at or near: 143-145 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Patrick Healey, builder, Little Bourke St.

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

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Eagle Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Eagle Alley
description

Perhaps colloquial only. Previously known as Tucker Lane, later Little Leichhardt Street; now part Madame Brussels Lane, part interior lane in Urban Workshop.

Named 1895. What appears to be the north-west and southern entries to the laneway can be seen on the 1853 map "Contours">https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/83D9B1FF-F843-11E9-AE98-A16788BE2840">Contours from Contoured Plan of Part of the City of Melbourne".

Located at or near: 44-46 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Black Eagle Hotel, 44-42 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. title Page, ii, 51). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Pritchard Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Pritchard Lane
description

Now known as Downie Street.

Status: Renamed. Named 1909.

Located at or near: 554-556 Flinders Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Pritchard Goode & Co carriers, free stores, 554a Flinders Street.

Location is approximate.

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Browns Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Browns Alley
description

Now known as Cohen Place. Browns Alleys is not to be confused with Brown Alley (formerly Murcutt Alley) or Brown Alley (now Dame Edna Place). Browns Alley is also sometimes known as Browns Lane and Browns Place. 

Status: Date 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. 67, 165). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Burton Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-21
name Burton Street
description

Previously known as McGraths Place.

Status: Date TBC.

Located at or near: Runs north from Little Lonsdale to La Trobe streets between Spring and Exhibition street.

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

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Cohen Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Cohen Place
description

Previously known as Browns Alley, Browns Lane or Browns Place.

Named 1898.

Located at or near: 111-115 Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Cohen Brothers, furniture warehouse, 107-111 Lonsdale Street; factory, 20-22 Cohen Pl.

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. 67, 142, 165, 182). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Cyclorama Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Cyclorama Lane
description

Now known as Donaldson Lane.

Named 1905.

Located at or near: 141-145 Russell St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Melbourne Cyclorama,">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00433b.htm">Cyclorama, joined to lane, 166-186 Little Collins St/207 Bourke St.

Location is approximate.

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Darby Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-03
name Darby Alley
description

Later known as Craigs Lane and now known The Causeway. For many years, south part was Darby Alley, north part was Craigs Lane.

Status: Date TBC.

Located at or near: TBC.

Probable or possible origin of name: TBC.

Location is approximate.

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Downie Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-08
name Downie Street
description

Previously known as Pritchard Lane.

Status: Date TBC, 1940.

Located at or near: 554-556 Flinders Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: J.B. Downie, importer, property on lane; or, J.A. Downie, bootmaker.

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

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Eastern Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Eastern Arcade
description

Eastern Arcade was classified as a public arcade.

Status: Demolished. Named 1872.

Located at or near: 131-135 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Eastern">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00499b.htm">Eastern Market, adjacent, cnr Bourke, Exhibition/Stephen, Little Collins sts.

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. 112, 38-39). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Godfrey Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Godfrey Street
description

Godfrey Street was classified as a public street.

Named 1890.

Located at or near: 675-677 Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: George Godfrey, Melbourne">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00930b.htm">Melbourne councillor, later parliamentarian.

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

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Drewery Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Drewery Lane
description

Previouly known as Brewery Lane. Sometimes previously known as Drewery Place.

Named 1872.

Located at or near: 264-268 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Thomas Drewery, chemist, City Councillor; or Drury Lane, London.

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. 18, 133, 181, 183, 157). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Finlay Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Finlay Alley
description

Finlay Alley was classified as a public alley.

Named 1905.

Located at or near: 250-254 Queen Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: John Finlay, contractor.

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. 194-195). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Frederick Way

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Frederick Way
description

Frederick Way was classified as a private way.

Named 2021.

Located at or near: 216-220 A'Beckett St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Frederick William Craig first infant buried at Old">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01080b.htm">Old Melbourne Cemetery, now Queen">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01215b.htm">Queen Victoria Market.

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

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Hardware Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Hardware Street
description

Previously known as Burns Lane; two sections south of Lonsdale Street renamed Hardware Lane, 1991-2008.

Named 1927.

Located at or near: 389-391 Little Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Hardware House, 386 Little Bourke 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. v, 18, 67, 155, 73, 76). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Bear Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Bear Alley
description

Later known as Browns Lane, then Bear Alley again, now known as Penfold Place.

Sometimes known as Bear Lane.

First named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 396-400 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: J.P. Bear, Bear's Horse Bazaar.

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

"Bears Lane, the scene of horse auctions at the yards of early Melbourne identity J.P. Bear, had its name replaced in favour of Adelaide invaders, the Penfold wine firm, which set up storage there. This is tall warehouse territory, justifying the hydraulic lift installed for Selbys at the far end of the place. It rumbled on to become the last of its kind in Melbourne." p. 66. 

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Bell Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Bell Place
description

Status: Date named TBC, 1935.

Location is approximate.

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Barry Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-13
name Barry Lane
description

Sometimes known as Barrys Lane or Barry's Lane. Previously Tankards Place

Named 1894.

Located at or near: 437-439 Lonsdale St.

Location is approximate.

"In 1965 Bank Place had changed little. And much the same set of clothiers was in Higson, Hosier and Oliver lanes, although some manufacturers' agents had replaced the manufacturers themselves. In various locations across the city there were still electroplaters, engravers, printers, and sign-writers, as well as specifically twentieth-century businesses like Spotless Dry-cleaning, in Caledonian Lane (centrally placed off Little Bourke Street), Electric Signals Burglar Alarms in Barry Lane (further west), and the Gita Yoga School in Alfred Place. The occupants of Alfred Place had changed completely from 1935; now there were the Delphic Reception House, the Naval and Military Club, S & M stationers, and the dental division of Drug Houses of Australia, as well as the Yoga School. Perhaps change was the order of the day. Off Collins Street, east, every shop in Regent Place, apart from Ernest Hillier's always-crowded milk bar at the entrance, had changed hands between 1935 and 1965. In came Tim the Toyman, Peter Piper Books and Fletcher Jones Dry-cleaning, several coffee lounges, shoe and sportswear shops, a jeweller, a florist, and a hosiery bar. " p. 67.

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Belman Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Belman Place
description

Status: Date named TBC, 1935. 

Location is approximate. 

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Albert Coates Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Albert Coates Lane
description

Albert Coates Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 2003.

Located at or near: 286 Swanston Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Sir">https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/coates-sir-albert-ernest-9772">Sir Albert Coates OBE, leading surgeon, Royal Melbourne Hospital.

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

"Redevelopment of the Queen Victoria Hospital site, which opened in stages from 2003 as Queen Victoria (QV) Village, saw the creation of new laneways' on the block bounded by Lonsdale, Little Lonsdale, Swanston, and Russell streets. Albert Coates Lane (soldier and leading surgeon at the hospital), Jane Bell Lane (hospital matron), Artemis Lane (Greek goddess of childbirth), Shilling Lane (1896 Queen Victoria shilling fundraiser), and Red Cape Lane (nurses' red capes) referenced the medical history of the site. To an extent these new lanes mirrored older urban patterns of the city, but as avatars of the form and function of their historical counterparts, to some they have a blander and less authentic feel." p. 139. 

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Albion Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Albion Alley
description

Albion Alley was classified as a public alley.

Sometimes known as Albion Lane. 

Pre-1856.

Located at or near: 279-281 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Albion">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00049b.htm">Albion Hotel, 290-292 Bourke 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. 134). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Albion Alley off Little Bourke Street near to the rear of David Jones dates back to the 1850s but today has doorways that host rough sleepers." p. 134.

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Blender Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Blender Lane
description

Blender Lane was classified as a public lane.

Date named 2018.

Located at or near: 106-108 Franklin St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Blender Studios, 110 Franklin St.

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

"In one of the world's great street art capitalS, proffers the Street Art tour, the city itself feels like a canvas. Commencing with the gig posters and majestic murals of Duckboard Place off Flinders Street, the tour's next stop is AC/DC Lane where a concrete figure of Bon Scott erupts through a wall. Hosier Lane- now mostly preceded by the words famous or iconic in everyday parlance- is the 'street art haven', and visitors are encouraged to Grab a seat at MoVida or Tres a Cinco and watch it unfold: Lisa King's female figure in Flinders Way, Centre Place's paste-ups, and Presgrave Place's small-scale works lead further on to Tattersalls Lane, and to Drewery Lane's mosaic and Melbourne Legacy Centenary of Anzac Street Art Mural. Mike Makatron's greening of an old electrical substation door is a highlight in Guildford Lane, and the tour ends in Blender Lane, the original location of Blender Studios and an epicentre of Melbourne's street art scene. Side trips to murals in Croft Alley, Meyers Place, and the Upper West Side Arts precinct (launched by the lord mayor in 2017, curated by Judy Roller in partnership with Far East Consortium and Citypower/Powercor) complete the tour." p. 181. 

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Casselden Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Casselden Place
description

Sometimes known as Casselden Lane or Casselden Street.

Casselden Place was classified as a private place.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 11-15 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: John Casselden, bootmaker, adjacent, 179 Lonsdale Street East.

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. 182, 93, 107, 167, 184-185). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"The Casselden Place Skyscraper, built in 1992, is 166 metres tall and towers over Casselden Place, once the site of the many and varied activities of 'Little Lon' that contributed to its infamy. Casselden Place testifies to transformative influences that have made many Melbourne lanes unrecognisable over the last generation." p. 185. 

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Alfred Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Alfred Place
description

Alfred Place was classified as a public place.

Pre-1856.

Located at or near: 98-100 Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Migrant ship.

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. 23, 58, 67, 36, 37, 39). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

"Because only relatively high-value production justified a central location, Union Lane of Little Collins Street near the heartof the city, contained electroplaters, brass finishers, locksmiths, an engraver and lapidary, a stereotyper, a wholesale newsagent, and watchmaker in 1895. No dwellings remained. At the same time the offices of mining companies, which had dominated Tavistock Lane (earlier Tavistock Place, towards the west end of Flinders Lane) since the 1860s, were upgraded, and famous Bank Place, off Collins Street, was almost rebuilt to house solicitors, assignees, conveyancers, liquidators, accountants and (harbinger of further change) Mrs Walpole's typewriter office. Eldon Chambers sheltered the Society for the Assistance of Persons of Education (fallen on hard times?) and the Dragon Whist Club. At the Mitre Tavern John Garden provided business lunches, and in basements beneath Bank Place, conveniently, there were wine merchants.Alfred Place, at the Paris end of Collins Street, had sloughed off its earlier livery stables, builder's yard, cabinet maker, estate agent and boarding house in favour of a German Association and a firm of printers and publishers who produced Melbourne Punch, Once a Week and the Australasian Schoolmaster." p. 58.

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Equitable Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Equitable Place
description

Previously known as Collins Place.

Named 1904.

Located at or near: 349-353 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Equitable Life Assurance Buildings, adjacent, cnr Elizabeth & Collins sts

Location is approximate.

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Griffin Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Griffin Alley
description

Previously known as Brophy Alley.

Status: Discontinued. Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 11-13 Little Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: William Griffin, hay and corn merchant.

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

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Mort Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Mort Lane
description

Mort Lane was classified as a public lane.

Status: Discontinued. Named 1907.

Located at or near: 560 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Thomas Mort, Goldsbrough Mort woolstores, adjacent.

Location is approximate.

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Rainbow Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Rainbow Alley
description

Rainbow Alley was classified as a public alley.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 242-246 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Rainbow Hotel, adjacent, cnr Swanston & Little Collins sts.

Location is approximate.

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Crossley Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Crossley Street
description

Formerly Romeo Lane.

Named 1876.

Located at or near: 62-66 Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: William Crossley, Anne Crossley, Crossley's Building, adjacent, butcher, shop, slaughteryard, residence, 54-62 Bourke St.

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. 112, 166, 42). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937." p. 112.

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Celestial Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-28
name Celestial Alley
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Alternative name of Celestial Avenue. Please see Celestial Avenue.

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Whitehart Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Whitehart Lane
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Alternative name to White Hart Lane. Please see White Hart Lane

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Pender Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Pender Alley
description

Pender Alley was classified as a public alley.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 600-602 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Michael Pender, Crown grantee.

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

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

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Gun Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-23
name Gun Place
description

Sometimes known as Gun Alley.

Status: Date TBC, 1921.

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. 112, 38-39, 112). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"No name came or went as mysteriously as Gun Alley, near the Eastern Market. It was not always listed in directories before or after being named in the press as the scene of the discovery of 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke's body, dumped there after she was raped and strangled in 1921. Colin Campbell Ross, the licensee of the Australian Wine Café in the nearby Eastern Arcade, to which the prosecution argued she had been lured, was convicted of the crime despite having an alibi. He was hanged in 1922. The main evidence against him was hair matching Alma's". p. 112.

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Amphlett Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Amphlett Lane
description

Amphlett Lane was classified as a public lane.

Date 2015.

Located at or near: 25-27 Little Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Chrissy Amphlett, Australian rock singer.

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. 181, 158, 175). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Another music legend singer, songwriter and actress, Chrissy (Christine Joy) Amphlett (1959-2013), was honoured in 2015 by the renaming of a lane for her behind the Princess Theatre. This followed a campaign culminating in 7,000 signatures from her fans. Amphlett's tumultuous career included big hits with the Divinyls. Before her death from breast cancer, she fought hard to raise awareness of this disease. The lane features art works depicting her iconic schoolgirl's uniform and her dogs, by Peter Gouldthorpe." p. 175.

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Gregory Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Gregory Lane
description

Side walkway/arcade of 333 Collins runs approximately on its footprint.

Status: Discontinued. Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 314-316 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Stephen Gregory, business owner.

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. 134, 192). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"By the early 1990s, 10 per cent of the total number of lanes had fallen under the bulldozer. The Becton Corporation had nibbled away Gregory Lane for the 333 Collins Street redevelopment, Melbourne Central (opened 1991) had engrossed eight old laneways, and the Hyatt Hotel had gobbled up another. Critics of such change saw the future as elitist and alienating, with Melbourne in danger of losing a core component of its history. If Irving's lane prints were the wanted poster for rampant development, Bate's book was at once reflective of loss, but in its own way a signal for change." p. 134.

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White Hart Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name White Hart Lane
description

Sometimes known as Whitehart Lane.

White Hart Lane was classified as a partly private lane.

Date named TBC, White Hart Lane 1904; 1858 Whitehart Lane?

Located at or near: 350-354 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: White">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00353b.htm">White Hart Inn, adjacent, James Power, publican.

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. 57, 183). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

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Craigs Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Craigs Lane
description

Previously known as Darby Alley, now known The Causeway. For many years, south part was Darby Alley, north part was Craigs Lane.

Name 1868.

Located at or near: 325-327 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Thomas Craig, wholesale ironmonger & iron merchant, business in lane.

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. 74-75, 78-79). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"East of Royal Arcade is one of a string of lesser lanes connecting Bourke and Little Collins streets between Coles Book Arcade and Royal Arcade. The one shown here was the target for development as the drawing power of Myer's (especially) and Buckley's stores grew. Once called Craigs Lane, its new status was reflected in a more imposing title, 'The Causeway', home to Bevilles Jewellery at the Bourke Street end as well as the inevitable coffee lounge, a kiosk and gift shops. In the ecology of the city, these shops were like birds, waiting on the edge of a tidal stream for the shoals of fish they knew must come." p 79.

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Howey Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Howey Place
description

Also known as Howey Court, Howey Lane, Howies Court, Howies Lane, and Howies Place.

Covered over as arcade, late 1800s/early 1900s.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 279-281 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Henry Howey, pastoralist & landowner (Crown Grantee 11 June 1837).

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. 11, 79, 83). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"That complex was a classic case, quite literally, of name-dropping. After the City Property Company, thinking perhaps of the success of Royal Arcade, gained permission in the early 1890s to roof over privately owned Carpenters Lane, it dispensed with that down-market name and latched onto the prestige of The Block, which was especially high at that corner of Collins and Elizabeth streets. About the same time, further east on Collins Street, Howies Lane [today, Howey Place] was bridged as the first step towards the complete covering that made it Howey Court. Bridges appeared at that time over six or seven other lanes, but only in the central shopping area was this likely to lead to a complete roof, sometimes attractively skylit." p. 79.

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Powells Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Powells Place
description

Named pre-1856.

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.

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Wrights Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Wrights Lane
description

Previoulsly known as Hardware Street, then Wrights Lane and now known as Hardware Lane.

Sometimes known as Wrigth Lane. 

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 395-397 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Early settler.

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, 57, 72-73). 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.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

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Coromandel Place

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datePublished 2024-07-12
name Coromandel Place
description

Coromandel Place was classified as a public place.

Name pre-1856.

Located at or near: 134-136 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Migrant ship, from Plymouth, USA.

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. 23, 55, 178, 38-39, 44-45). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

"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.

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Russell Place

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datePublished 2024-08-27
name Russell Place
description

Named pre-1856.

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, 166). 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.

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Cheetham Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-21
name Cheetham Alley
description

Sometimes known as Cheetham Lane and Cheetham Place.

Named pre-1856.

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.

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Pender Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Pender Place
description

Pender Place was classified as a public place.

Sometimes known as Pender Place. 

Status: Date TBC, pre-1856.

Located at or near: 126-128 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Michael Pender, Crown grantee.

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

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

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Tavistock Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Tavistock Place
description

Sometimes known as Tavistock Lane. 

Tavistock Place was classified as a public place.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 377-381 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Tavistock House, London; constructed 1850s as Ship">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01365b.htm">Ship Inn, renamed Tavistock Hotel, 1895, Tavistock House c 1906.

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. v, 55, 58). 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.

"Because only relatively high-value production justified a central location, Union Lane, off Little Collins Street near the heart of the city, contained electroplaters, brass finishers, locksmiths, an engraver and lapidary, a stereotyper, a wholesale newsagent, and a watchmaker in 1895. No dwellings remained. At the same time the offices of mining companies, which had dominated Tavistock Lane (earlier Tavistock Place, towards the west end of Flinders Lane) since the 1860s, were upgraded, and famous Bank Place, off Collins Street, was almost rebuilt to house solicitors, assignees, conveyancers, liquidators, accountants and (harbinger of further change) Mrs Walpole's typewriter office. Eldon Chambers sheltered the Society for the Assistance of Persons of Education (fallen on hard times?) and the Dragon Whist Club. At the Mitre Tavern John Garden provided business lunches, and in basements beneath Bank Place, conveniently, there were wine merchants. Alfred Place, at the Paris end of Collins Street, had sloughed off its earlier livery stables, builder's yard, cabinet maker, estate agent and boarding house in favour of a German Association and a firm of printers and publishers who produced Melbourne Punch, Once a Week and the Australasian Schoolmaster." p. 58.

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Romeo Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Romeo Lane
description

Now Crossley Street.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 60-66 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Shakespeare's hero.

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

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Liverpool Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Liverpool Street
description

Formerly Juliet Lane and Juliet Terrace.

Named 1890.

Located at or near: 50-54 Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Liverpool Hotel.

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. 112, 170, 42, 87, 172). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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George Parade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-23
name George Parade
description

Previously known as La Trobe Place / Parade. 

Named 1935.

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. 23, 112). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Chancery Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-21
name Chancery Lane
description

Colloquial, off Little Collins.

Status: Date TBC, pre-1932.

Located at or near: TBC, between William Street and Queen Street.

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

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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Williams Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-14
name Williams Lane
description

Previously named Brogans Lane and later named Waratah Place.

Status: Date 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. 91). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"The reports reveal that most buildings were way below street level. The reason is clear from the inspector's comment on a two-storey house at the corner of Lonsdale Street and Corrs Lane. The street level had been raised, making the lower rooms unhabitable. Rainwater fell in the yard, drained under the floor, and lay stagnant half a metre deep, as it did in many cases. The inspection party needed strong boots. They came away saddened and appalled by the filth, the stench, and the image of people living like pigs. Apart from Little Bourke Street, or yards behind it, most properties were in lanes and alleys off Little Bourke:Celestial Alley, Corrs Lane and its alleys, Davis Lane and alley, Hayward Lane, Heffernan Lane, Juliet Terrace, Kytes Lane, McIntyre Lane, Menzies Alley, Princess Place, Tattersalls Lane and Williams Lane. Princess Place and Juliet Terrace were near the famous Princess Theatre." p. 91.

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Corrs Lane

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datePublished 2024-08-21
name Corrs Lane
description

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. 91-92, 88-89). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"The reports reveal that most buildings were way below street level. The reason is clear from the inspector's comment on a two-storey house at the corner of Lonsdale Street and Corrs Lane. The street level had been raised, making the lower rooms unhabitable. Rainwater fell in the yard, drained under the floor, and lay stagnant half a metre deep, as it did in many cases. The inspection party needed strong boots. They came away saddened and appalled by the filth, the stench, and the image of people living like pigs. Apart from Little Bourke Street, or yards behind it, most properties were in lanes and alleys off Little Bourke:Celestial Alley, Corrs Lane and its alleys, Davis Lane and alley, Hayward Lane, Heffernan Lane, Juliet Terrace, Kytes Lane, McIntyre Lane, Menzies Alley, Princess Place, Tattersalls Lane and Williams Lane. Princess Place and Juliet Terrace were near the famous Princess Theatre." p. 91.

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St Patricks Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
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description

St Patricks Alley was classified as a public alley.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 443-447 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: St Patrick's Hall, adjacent, 468 Bourke St.

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

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

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Celestial Avenue

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
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description

Sometimes known as Celestial Alley.

Celestial Avenue was classified as a public avenue.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 210-212 Bourke Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Celestial, Chinese">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00338b.htm">Chinese community, residents.

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. 91, 2, 21, 166). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"The reports reveal that most buildings were way below street level. The reason is clear from the inspector's comment on a two-storey house at the corner of Lonsdale Street and Corrs Lane. The street level had been raised, making the lower rooms unhabitable. Rainwater fell in the yard, drained under the floor, and lay stagnant half a metre deep, as it did in many cases. The inspection party needed strong boots. They came away saddened and appalled by the filth, the stench, and the image of people living like pigs. Apart from Little Bourke Street, or yards behind it, most properties were in lanes and alleys off Little Bourke:Celestial Alley, Corrs Lane and its alleys, Davis Lane and alley, Hayward Lane, Heffernan Lane, Juliet Terrace, Kytes Lane, McIntyre Lane, Menzies Alley, Princess Place, Tattersalls Lane and Williams Lane. Princess Place and Juliet Terrace were near the famous Princess Theatre." p. 91.

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Heffernan Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Heffernan Lane
description

Sometimes known as Heffernans Lane.

Heffernan Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1857.

Located at or near: 197-201 Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Rolly Heffernan, licensee, Melbourne Hotel, adjacent 205-207 Lonsdale St.

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. 20, 22, 91, 40, 65, 122, 123, 162). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"The reports reveal that most buildings were way below street level. The reason is clear from the inspector's comment on a two-storey house at the corner of Lonsdale Street and Corrs Lane. The street level had been raised, making the lower rooms unhabitable. Rainwater fell in the yard, drained under the floor, and lay stagnant half a metre deep, as it did in many cases. The inspection party needed strong boots. They came away saddened and appalled by the filth, the stench, and the image of people living like pigs. Apart from Little Bourke Street, or yards behind it, most properties were in lanes and alleys off Little Bourke:Celestial Alley, Corrs Lane and its alleys, Davis Lane and alley, Hayward Lane, Heffernan Lane, Juliet Terrace, Kytes Lane, McIntyre Lane, Menzies Alley, Princess Place, Tattersalls Lane and Williams Lane. Princess Place and Juliet Terrace were near the famous Princess Theatre." p. 91.

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Kytes Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Kytes Lane
description

Formerly + also Commercial Lane, now Paynes Place.

Named 1879.

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. 91, 11). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"The reports reveal that most buildings were way below street level. The reason is clear from the inspector's comment on a two-storey house at the corner of Lonsdale Street and Corrs Lane. The street level had been raised, making the lower rooms unhabitable. Rainwater fell in the yard, drained under the floor, and lay stagnant half a metre deep, as it did in many cases. The inspection party needed strong boots. They came away saddened and appalled by the filth, the stench, and the image of people living like pigs. Apart from Little Bourke Street, or yards behind it, most properties were in lanes and alleys off Little Bourke:Celestial Alley, Corrs Lane and its alleys, Davis Lane and alley, Hayward Lane, Heffernan Lane, Juliet Terrace, Kytes Lane, McIntyre Lane, Menzies Alley, Princess Place, Tattersalls Lane and Williams Lane. Princess Place and Juliet Terrace were near the famous Princess Theatre." p. 91.

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Menzies Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Menzies Lane
description

Sometimes known as Menzies Street and Menzies Alley. 

Menzies Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 1895.

Located at or near: 468-470 Little Collins Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Archie Menzies, Empire Hotel, adjacent.

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

"The reports reveal that most buildings were way below street level. The reason is clear from the inspector's comment on a two-storey house at the corner of Lonsdale Street and Corrs Lane. The street level had been raised, making the lower rooms unhabitable. Rainwater fell in the yard, drained under the floor, and lay stagnant half a metre deep, as it did in many cases. The inspection party needed strong boots. They came away saddened and appalled by the filth, the stench, and the image of people living like pigs. Apart from Little Bourke Street, or yards behind it, most properties were in lanes and alleys off Little Bourke:Celestial Alley, Corrs Lane and its alleys, Davis Lane and alley, Hayward Lane, Heffernan Lane, Juliet Terrace, Kytes Lane, McIntyre Lane, Menzies Alley, Princess Place, Tattersalls Lane and Williams Lane. Princess Place and Juliet Terrace were near the famous Princess Theatre." p. 91.

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Tattersalls Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Tattersalls Lane
description

Tattersalls Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 238-242 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Tattersalls Horse Bazaar, Tattersalls Club and Hotel, nearby.

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, 91, 181, 144, 166). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"The reports reveal that most buildings were way below street level. The reason is clear from the inspector's comment on a two-storey house at the corner of Lonsdale Street and Corrs Lane. The street level had been raised, making the lower rooms unhabitable. Rainwater fell in the yard, drained under the floor, and lay stagnant half a metre deep, as it did in many cases. The inspection party needed strong boots. They came away saddened and appalled by the filth, the stench, and the image of people living like pigs. Apart from Little Bourke Street, or yards behind it, most properties were in lanes and alleys off Little Bourke:Celestial Alley, Corrs Lane and its alleys, Davis Lane and alley, Hayward Lane, Heffernan Lane, Juliet Terrace, Kytes Lane, McIntyre Lane, Menzies Alley, Princess Place, Tattersalls Lane and Williams Lane. Princess Place and Juliet Terrace were near the famous Princess Theatre." p. 91.

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West Side Place arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name West Side Place arcade
description

West Side Place arcade was classified as a private arcade.

Named 2023.

Located at or near: 260 Spencer Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: West Side Place, hotel, apartment complex on site.

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

"Rose Lane has been pedestrianised as part of the development and, like Watertank Way, has bollards across blocking through traffic. Across the road, its recently completed sister development, West Side Place, which includes a Ritz Carlton, is built on the site of the former Age newspaper office and has as one of its features 'open-air landscaped laneways'. This creation of laneways also features Heagney Passage, which is a short private entrance walkway off A'Beckett Street into the Queens Place development, and Lilardia Walk, providing entrance to the building off Queen Street. Heagney Passage is named for trade unionist and feminist Muriel Heagney (1885-1974), while Lilardia Walk was named after Aboriginal rights activist Margaret Tucker (1904-1996), Lilardia being her Aboriginal name, meaning flower." p. 146.

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Rose Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Rose Lane
description

Sometimes known as Rose Alley. 

Rose Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 613-617 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Alexander Rose, hay and corn merchant, King 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. 57, 139, 146). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

"Rose Lane has been pedestrianised as part of the development and, like Watertank Way, has bollards across blocking through traffic. Across the road, its recently completed sister development, West Side Place, which includes a Ritz Carlton, is built on the site of the former Age newspaper office and has as one of its features 'open-air landscaped laneways'. This creation of laneways also features Heagney Passage, which is a short private entrance walkway off A'Beckett Street into the Queens Place development, and Lilardia Walk, providing entrance to the building off Queen Street. Heagney Passage is named for trade unionist and feminist Muriel Heagney (1885-1974), while Lilardia Walk was named after Aboriginal rights activist Margaret Tucker (1904-1996), Lilardia being her Aboriginal name, meaning flower." p. 146.

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Watertank Way

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Watertank Way
description

Watertank Way was classified as a private way.

Named 2016.

Located at or near: 639 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Heritage-listed water tank, Melbourne Power Station, on site.

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. 139, 146, 202). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Rose Lane has been pedestrianised as part of the development and, like Watertank Way, has bollards across blocking through traffic. Across the road, its recently completed sister development, West Side Place, which includes a Ritz Carlton, is built on the site of the former Age newspaper office and has as one of its features 'open-air landscaped laneways'. This creation of laneways also features Heagney Passage, which is a short private entrance walkway off A'Beckett Street into the Queens Place development, and Lilardia Walk, providing entrance to the building off Queen Street. Heagney Passage is named for trade unionist and feminist Muriel Heagney (1885-1974), while Lilardia Walk was named after Aboriginal rights activist Margaret Tucker (1904-1996), Lilardia being her Aboriginal name, meaning flower." p. 146.

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Heagney Passage

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Heagney Passage
description

Part-covered arcade.

Named 2021.

Located at or near: 149-151 A'Beckett St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Muriel">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM02663b.htm">Muriel Agnes Heagney (1885-1974), trade unionist and feminist.

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

"Rose Lane has been pedestrianised as part of the development and, like Watertank Way, has bollards across blocking through traffic. Across the road, its recently completed sister development, West Side Place, which includes a Ritz Carlton, is built on the site of the former Age newspaper office and has as one of its features 'open-air landscaped laneways'. This creation of laneways also features Heagney Passage, which is a short private entrance walkway off A'Beckett Street into the Queens Place development, and Lilardia Walk, providing entrance to the building off Queen Street. Heagney Passage is named for trade unionist and feminist Muriel Heagney (1885-1974), while Lilardia Walk was named after Aboriginal rights activist Margaret Tucker (1904-1996), Lilardia being her Aboriginal name, meaning flower." p. 146.

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Degraves Street

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Degraves Street
description

Degraves Street was classified as a public street.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 267-271 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: William Degraves, flour miller, nearby, 277-279 Flinders Lane.

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. 3, 25, 138, 170, 183, 30, 31, 114, 162, 167, 168, 180). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Can Melbourne's lanes continue to be the city's best-kept secret while at the same time being saturated with promotional material? Are the predominant historical narratives around Melbourne's lanes in danger of being fetishised into extinction? Only time will tell, but the historical understanding of their cultural significance that was so clearly articulated in Weston Bate's book will continue to be relevant. In the interim, the 'Arcades and Laneways' Melbourne walk is touted as the 'ultimate way to see Melbourne on foot, with its iconic' features and 'hidden hotspots' including Degraves Street (for street art and brunch), Centre Place ('offbeat shops'), Scott Alley, Cathedral Arcade, Manchester Lane (independent designers'), Block and Royal arcades, Hardware Lane, Warburton Lane, Whitehart Lane (for a cocktail), Rankins Lane, Somerset Place (coffee odyssey'), Driver Lane ('basement bar'), and Postal Lane (lush vertical garden). Meanwhile, off the heavily curated sections of the grid, the more humdrum and mundane of Melbourne's laneways await rediscovery and makeover, just going about their gritty business as they have for over a century and a half." p. 183.

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Watson Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-22
name Watson Place
description

Status: Date TBC, earliest known 1895.

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. 23, 90, 52-53). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Melbourne Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Melbourne Place
description

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

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Ramsden Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Ramsden Place
description

Ramsden Place (later incorporated Peter 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. 12, 23, 133, 8-9, 86). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Olivers Lane [east]

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Olivers Lane [east]
description

[east]. Sometimes known as Oliver Lane.

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. 23, 61, 64, 67, 133). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Hosier Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Hosier Lane
description

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. 23, 64, 67, 133, 134, 138, 162, 166, 170, 173, 176, 178, 181, 57, 60, 124, 125, 196). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Hockins Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Hockins Lane
description

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

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Henderson Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-26
name Henderson Alley
description

Sometimes known as Henderson 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. 23). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"In the lanes of sector IV (as in the others), among many small factories, were the fledglings of a new technological phase, like the appearance in the twentieth century of Australian Rubber Mills in Coates Lane and a gramophone repairer in Coromandel Place. The ice cream giant, Peter's American Delicacy Company, was born in Meyer Place, and broadcasting began from 3LO and 3AR in Melbourne Place in the 1920s. Hidden away in 1935 were craftsmen in gold, stained glass and copper, a 'sanitary' plumber, and (in Alfred Place) Felton, Grimwade and Duerdin, makers of surgical implements. Otherwise the rag trade was dominant, as it had been from the 1880s. 'The Lane' spread through dozens of narrow inlets off Flinders Lane, especially between Russell and Exhibition streets. Many were anonymous in 1895 when only La Trobe, Ramsden, Watson, Argus, Oliver and Hosier were named. Finding people was much easier by 1935, although there may have been fewer street signs than names in Sands & McDougal's Directory-for Oliver, Hosier, Freemasons, Ellis, Chester, Hockins, Lush, Moore, Malthouse, Corporation and Higsons lanes, and for Henderson, Ramsden and Watson places, Argus Alley and George Parade. Makers of dresses, shirts, underwear, suits, uniforms, coats, mantles, and furs crowded in behind the large soft goods importers who fronted Flinders Lane itself. There were also allied trades like leather work, pleating, spokestitching, and sewing machine repairs." p. 23.

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Warburton Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Warburton Lane
description

Warburton Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1890.

Located at or near: 367-369 Little Bourke St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Thomas Warburton, Mrs Thomas Warburton, Thomas Warburton (jr?) galvanised iron merchant, general importer, adjacent, 384 Bourke St.

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. 133, 183). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Can Melbourne's lanes continue to be the city's best-kept secret while at the same time being saturated with promotional material? Are the predominant historical narratives around Melbourne's lanes in danger of being fetishised into extinction? Only time will tell, but the historical understanding of their cultural significance that was so clearly articulated in Weston Bate's book will continue to be relevant. In the interim, the 'Arcades and Laneways' Melbourne walk is touted as the 'ultimate way to see Melbourne on foot, with its iconic' features and 'hidden hotspots' including Degraves Street (for street art and brunch), Centre Place ('offbeat shops'), Scott Alley, Cathedral Arcade, Manchester Lane (independent designers'), Block and Royal arcades, Hardware Lane, Warburton Lane, Whitehart Lane (for a cocktail), Rankins Lane, Somerset Place (coffee odyssey'), Driver Lane ('basement bar'), and Postal Lane (lush vertical garden). Meanwhile, off the heavily curated sections of the grid, the more humdrum and mundane of Melbourne's laneways await rediscovery and makeover, just going about their gritty business as they have for over a century and a half." p. 183.

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Tucker Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-04
name Tucker Lane
description

Later known as Little Leichhardt Street; now part Madame Brussels Lane, part interior lane in Urban Workshop.

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Centre Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-21
name Centre Place
description

Sometimes known as Centre Court. 

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. 79, 138, 166, 173, 176, 178, 181, 183, 3, 30, 135, 146–147, 149, 162–165, 180, 195). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Can Melbourne's lanes continue to be the city's best-kept secret while at the same time being saturated with promotional material? Are the predominant historical narratives around Melbourne's lanes in danger of being fetishised into extinction? Only time will tell, but the historical understanding of their cultural significance that was so clearly articulated in Weston Bate's book will continue to be relevant. In the interim, the 'Arcades and Laneways' Melbourne walk is touted as the 'ultimate way to see Melbourne on foot, with its iconic' features and 'hidden hotspots' including Degraves Street (for street art and brunch), Centre Place ('offbeat shops'), Scott Alley, Cathedral Arcade, Manchester Lane (independent designers'), Block and Royal arcades, Hardware Lane, Warburton Lane, Whitehart Lane (for a cocktail), Rankins Lane, Somerset Place (coffee odyssey'), Driver Lane ('basement bar'), and Postal Lane (lush vertical garden). Meanwhile, off the heavily curated sections of the grid, the more humdrum and mundane of Melbourne's laneways await rediscovery and makeover, just going about their gritty business as they have for over a century and a half." p. 183.

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Manchester Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-09
name Manchester Lane
description

Manchester Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 236-238 Flinders Lane. 

Probable or possible origin of name: Fabric warehouses in area.

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

"Can Melbourne's lanes continue to be the city's best-kept secret while at the same time being saturated with promotional material? Are the predominant historical narratives around Melbourne's lanes in danger of being fetishised into extinction? Only time will tell, but the historical understanding of their cultural significance that was so clearly articulated in Weston Bate's book will continue to be relevant. In the interim, the 'Arcades and Laneways' Melbourne walk is touted as the 'ultimate way to see Melbourne on foot, with its iconic' features and 'hidden hotspots' including Degraves Street (for street art and brunch), Centre Place ('offbeat shops'), Scott Alley, Cathedral Arcade, Manchester Lane (independent designers'), Block and Royal arcades, Hardware Lane, Warburton Lane, Whitehart Lane (for a cocktail), Rankins Lane, Somerset Place (coffee odyssey'), Driver Lane ('basement bar'), and Postal Lane (lush vertical garden). Meanwhile, off the heavily curated sections of the grid, the more humdrum and mundane of Melbourne's laneways await rediscovery and makeover, just going about their gritty business as they have for over a century and a half." p. 183.

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Volance Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-09-03
name Volance Lane
description

Later known as Condells Lane

Status: Date TBC.

Located at or near: TBC.

Probable or possible origin of name: TBC.

Location is approximate.

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Timothy Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-12
name Timothy Lane
description

Timothy Lane was classified as a partly private lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 375-377 Little Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Timothy Heffernan, 375 Little 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. 74-75, 186). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Throssell Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-10
name Throssell Lane
description

Throssell Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1907.

Located at or near: 13-15 Flinders Lane.

Probable or possible origin of name: Frederick Throssell, maltster, 15 Flinders Lane.

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

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Singers Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-15
name Singers Lane
description

Singers Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1941.

Located at or near: 420-424 La Trobe St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Singer Sewing Machine Factory, adjacent, cnr William & La Trobe sts.

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. vi, 151). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

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Brights Alley

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Brights Alley
description

Alternative name to Brights Place. Please see Brights Place.

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Block Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-11
name Block Arcade
description

Block Arcade was classified as a private arcade.

Named 1892/93.

Located at or near: 282-284 Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: 'The Block', 'Doing">https://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00479b.htm">Doing the Block', shopping block bounded by Collins, Swanston, Bourke, Elizabeth Streets.

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. 3, 11, 79, 183, 12-13, 84-85, 210, 213). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Can Melbourne's lanes continue to be the city's best-kept secret while at the same time being saturated with promotional material? Are the predominant historical narratives around Melbourne's lanes in danger of being fetishised into extinction? Only time will tell, but the historical understanding of their cultural significance that was so clearly articulated in Weston Bate's book will continue to be relevant. In the interim, the 'Arcades and Laneways' Melbourne walk is touted as the 'ultimate way to see Melbourne on foot, with its iconic' features and 'hidden hotspots' including Degraves Street (for street art and brunch), Centre Place ('offbeat shops'), Scott Alley, Cathedral Arcade, Manchester Lane (independent designers'), Block and Royal arcades, Hardware Lane, Warburton Lane, Whitehart Lane (for a cocktail), Rankins Lane, Somerset Place (coffee odyssey'), Driver Lane ('basement bar'), and Postal Lane (lush vertical garden). Meanwhile, off the heavily curated sections of the grid, the more humdrum and mundane of Melbourne's laneways await rediscovery and makeover, just going about their gritty business as they have for over a century and a half." p. 183.

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Royal Arcade

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Royal Arcade
description

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. 13, 79, 183, 74-75, 80-82, 120, 121). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Can Melbourne's lanes continue to be the city's best-kept secret while at the same time being saturated with promotional material? Are the predominant historical narratives around Melbourne's lanes in danger of being fetishised into extinction? Only time will tell, but the historical understanding of their cultural significance that was so clearly articulated in Weston Bate's book will continue to be relevant. In the interim, the 'Arcades and Laneways' Melbourne walk is touted as the 'ultimate way to see Melbourne on foot, with its iconic' features and 'hidden hotspots' including Degraves Street (for street art and brunch), Centre Place ('offbeat shops'), Scott Alley, Cathedral Arcade, Manchester Lane (independent designers'), Block and Royal arcades, Hardware Lane, Warburton Lane, Whitehart Lane (for a cocktail), Rankins Lane, Somerset Place (coffee odyssey'), Driver Lane ('basement bar'), and Postal Lane (lush vertical garden). Meanwhile, off the heavily curated sections of the grid, the more humdrum and mundane of Melbourne's laneways await rediscovery and makeover, just going about their gritty business as they have for over a century and a half." p. 183.

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Hardware Lane

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-07-17
name Hardware Lane
description

Previously known as Burns Lane; two sections south of Lonsdale Street renamed Hardware Lane, 1991-2008. See also Hardware Street.

Named 1991.

Located at or near: 389-391 Little Lonsdale Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Hardware House, 386 Little Bourke 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. v, 18, 67, 134, 151, 155, 182, 183, 73, 76, 118, 119). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Can Melbourne's lanes continue to be the city's best-kept secret while at the same time being saturated with promotional material? Are the predominant historical narratives around Melbourne's lanes in danger of being fetishised into extinction? Only time will tell, but the historical understanding of their cultural significance that was so clearly articulated in Weston Bate's book will continue to be relevant. In the interim, the 'Arcades and Laneways' Melbourne walk is touted as the 'ultimate way to see Melbourne on foot, with its iconic' features and 'hidden hotspots' including Degraves Street (for street art and brunch), Centre Place ('offbeat shops'), Scott Alley, Cathedral Arcade, Manchester Lane (independent designers'), Block and Royal arcades, Hardware Lane, Warburton Lane, Whitehart Lane (for a cocktail), Rankins Lane, Somerset Place (coffee odyssey'), Driver Lane ('basement bar'), and Postal Lane (lush vertical garden). Meanwhile, off the heavily curated sections of the grid, the more humdrum and mundane of Melbourne's laneways await rediscovery and makeover, just going about their gritty business as they have for over a century and a half." p. 183.

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Somerset Place

typeDataset
datePublished 2024-08-27
name Somerset Place
description

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. 18, 183, 72). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Can Melbourne's lanes continue to be the city's best-kept secret while at the same time being saturated with promotional material? Are the predominant historical narratives around Melbourne's lanes in danger of being fetishised into extinction? Only time will tell, but the historical understanding of their cultural significance that was so clearly articulated in Weston Bate's book will continue to be relevant. In the interim, the 'Arcades and Laneways' Melbourne walk is touted as the 'ultimate way to see Melbourne on foot, with its iconic' features and 'hidden hotspots' including Degraves Street (for street art and brunch), Centre Place ('offbeat shops'), Scott Alley, Cathedral Arcade, Manchester Lane (independent designers'), Block and Royal arcades, Hardware Lane, Warburton Lane, Whitehart Lane (for a cocktail), Rankins Lane, Somerset Place (coffee odyssey'), Driver Lane ('basement bar'), and Postal Lane (lush vertical garden). Meanwhile, off the heavily curated sections of the grid, the more humdrum and mundane of Melbourne's laneways await rediscovery and makeover, just going about their gritty business as they have for over a century and a half." p. 183.

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Lucas Place

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datePublished 2024-09-04
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Later known as Dawsons Place

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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.

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Union Lane

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datePublished 2024-07-11
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Union Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named 1864.

Located at or near: 286-288 Little Collins St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Union Hotel, Little Collins 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. 58, 173). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Because only relatively high-value production justified a central location, Union Lane, off Little Collins Street near the heart of the city, contained electroplaters, brass finishers, locksmiths, an engraver and lapidary, a stereotyper, a wholesale newsagent, and a watchmaker in 1895. No dwellings remained. At the same time the offices of mining companies, which had dominated Tavistock Lane (earlier Tavistock Place, towards the west end of Flinders Lane) since the 1860s, were upgraded, and famous Bank Place, off Collins Street, was almost rebuilt to house solicitors, assignees, conveyancers, liquidators, accountants and (harbinger of further change) Mrs Walpole's typewriter office. Eldon Chambers sheltered the Society for the Assistance of Persons of Education (fallen on hard times?) and the Dragon Whist Club. At the Mitre Tavern John Garden provided business lunches, and in basements beneath Bank Place, conveniently, there were wine merchants. Alfred Place, at the Paris end of Collins Street, had sloughed off its earlier livery stables, builder's yard, cabinet maker, estate agent and boarding house in favour of a German Association and a firm of printers and publishers who produced Melbourne Punch, Once a Week and the Australasian Schoolmaster." p. 58.

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Murphys Lane

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datePublished 2024-08-26
name Murphys Lane
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Now known as Customs House Lane

Date named 1869.

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

"First, we should be aware of the power of the present (at various times) to obliterate the past. An early unnamed right of way beside 452 Flinders Street, which became Murphys Lane in 1869, was upgraded to Custom House Lane when that important building was completed in 1876. The alley behind Payne's Bon Marché drapery in Bourke Street only became Paynes Place in 1907, after a series of name changes from its first listing in 1865 as Commercial Lane. By the time the Regent Theatre was built the Argus newspaper had deserted its dead-end lane Argus Alley, and the theatre's name was given to the parallel throughway, Regent Place. Early governors' names on La Trobe Parade and Hotham Place were scratched in favour, respectively, of George Parade (1935) and Cocker Alley (1906). Because of their suggestiveness, perhaps, besides doubtful reputations as part of a theatrical demi-monde off Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets, Romeo Lane was rubbed out in favour of Crossley Street in 1876 (even before the 1884 clean-up), and Juliet Terrace became Liverpool Street in 1890. Fifty years after the Grand Coffee Palace was renamed Hotel Windsor in 1893, Lang Lane [east] turned into Windsor Place. In more recent times one unnamed lane, off a section of Little Collins Street colloquially known as Chancery Lane, was christened Austral Lane in 1932. Athenaeum Lane replaced Sleights Lane in 1937. " p. 112.

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