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Lanes

Cars ruin park

Catalogue number: 
emvf0296
Content or description: 
Newspaper article commenting on decision not to reduce car parking in Yarra Park. Reverse has article about the importance of bluestone to Melbourne's heritage and the Council's moves to protect it.
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East Melbourne, Burchett Lane 015

Description: 
The structure is almost invisible. It presents as a large brick cube covered in Virginia creeper.
History: 
In 1868 the Church of England completed its first East Melbourne vicarage on land granted to it on the south side of Hotham Street, near Hoddle Street, one half acre in all.
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East Melbourne, Hotham Place

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Catalogue number: 
emdf0326
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Photo of the lane which runs between 164 and 168 Hotham Street, East Melbourne

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Robert Russell Lane maps

Catalogue number: 
emdf0142
Content or description: 
Two maps showing Robert Russell Lane in East Melbourne. The maps provide some details of changing surface treatments, land owners and local features.
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  • 1443 reads

Street and Lane Names

Catalogue number: 
emvf0624
Content or description: 
Newspaper clippings about street and lane names.
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  • 1560 reads

Streetwise

Catalogue number: 
emvf0297
Content or description: 
Short newspaper article explaining origin of Lansdowne Street's name. Leader, 22 Feb. 2004. Also real estate flyer in form of quiz on origin of street names.
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What's in a Name? The Lanes of East Melbourne

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Catalogue number: 
embk0071
Content or description: 
Booklet published by the East Melbourne Historical Society, November 2008. Quotation from the Introduction: East Melbourne’s lanes are an integral part of its historic character.
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