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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.
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.
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.
[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.
Sarah Fraser, also called Mother Fraser (died 1880) was an Australian brothel keeper.. Prostitution portal; Sex work portal; She was the daughter of a British convict. She established a brothel in the Little Lon red light district in Melbourne in the mid 19th-century.
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the 'Commonwealth Block' of the Little Lon slum area (bounded by Spring, Little Lonsdale, Exhibition and Latrobe Streets), 1958 Melbourne Mansions, 95 Collins Street, 1958 Colonial Mutual Life (Equitable Life Assurance Society) Building, corner of Collins and Elizabeth Street ) in 1960.