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George Lane - east side, looking at Lonsdale Street, 1950, by Australia Dept. of Housing and Construction Victoria/Tasmania Region, courtesy of State Library of Victoria.
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George Lane - east side, looking south from nos. 20-22, 1950, by Australia Dept. of Housing and Construction Victoria/Tasmania Region, courtesy of State Library of Victoria.
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George Lane
George Lane is located in the block between Exhibition, Spring, Lonsdale and Little Lonsdale streets. In 1915, George Lane extended north-south between Lonsdale and Little Lonsdale streets. Today it exists inside a large building complex. The three entries to the lane, on Lonsdale Street, Little Lonsdale Street, and Exhibition Street, serve as entrances to the building complex. A depot of the Central Methodist Mission was located in the lane in the 1890s, as were several hotels, including the Victoria Hotel on the corner of George Lane and Lonsdale Street, and Cooper's Family Hotel at the opposite end on the corner of Little Lonsdale Street.
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- MMBW Detail Plan, 1019, City of Melbourne, 1895; MMBW Melbourne Sewerage Plans 1890s - 1950s; State Library of Victoria. Details
