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Little Lon was the popular name for a slum and red-light district in Melbourne, Australia. Archaeologists at work amongst building footings at Little Lon, in 2002. The area was roughly bounded by Lonsdale , Spring , Stephen (later Exhibition ) and La Trobe streets.
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke tells the story of Bill, a member of a larrikin push (or gang) in Melbourne's Little Lon red-light district, who encounters Doreen, a young woman "of some social aspiration", in a local market. Narrated by Bill, the poems chronicle their courtship and marriage, detailing his transformation from a violence-prone ...
Little Lonsdale Street is located in the centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.A part of the Hoddle Grid, it runs roughly east–west.North of Lonsdale Street and south of La Trobe Street, Little Lonsdale Street's eastern end intersects with Spring Street while its western end intersects with Spencer Street.
The best known surviving building from this period is the St James Old Cathedral (1839-1847), which originally stood at the corner of William and Little Collins streets in what was then the centre of town but was later relocated. [19]
Caroline Hodgson (c. 1851 – 11 July 1908), also known as Madame Brussels, was a well-known brothel proprietor and local identity of the Little Lon district in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, during the late 19th century.
IFFM opens Aug. 15 with anthology film “My Melbourne” from directors Rima Das, Onir, Imtiaz Ali and Kabir Khan, and closes Aug. 25 with Shuchi Talati’s Sundance winner “Girls Will Be Girls.”
[3] [page needed] By the 1850s gold rush, Melbourne had over one hundred lanes, some of which became associated with the city's criminal underbelly, notably those in the Little Lon district. Melbourne's shopping arcades, among the best known being the Block Arcade and the Royal Arcade , reached a peak of opulence during the late Victorian era.
The Bay Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians which follows the coastline of Port Phillip Bay through the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The trail begins at Austin Road, Seaford near the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands viewing platform and travels north.