When was Stephen Street renamed Exhibition Street?

David Walker
On 09-Oct-21 2:55 PM, Mal Rowe wrote:
>

> On 09/10/2021 13:37, Jeremy Wainwright wrote:

>>  My guess is that, back before the grand Princes Bridge that we know

>> today, St K Rd started at Flinders St, crossed the rather ramshackle

>> (1843) bridge known colloquially as Balbirnie's Bridge and later the

>> first Prince's Bridge (a stone arch structure opened in 1851, known

>> also as Lennox's Bridge after its designer) and it was accepted that

>> the bridge (in whatever form) had no effect on the name of the road.

>

>

> Agreed the attached map from the SLV collection possibly dates from

> around 1860.

>

> It shows a blank in the area between Flinders St and the Yarra, and

> probably misrepresents the actual alignment of the M&HB railway bridge.

>

>

> Some of the map is probably conjecture.  M&HB railway opened in 1954,

> Parliament house started construction in 1855 and the government railway

> terminus at Spencer St was established in 1859.

>

> If I'm correct about some conjecture - then the date may be around 1853.

>

>

> Mal Rowe - map magpie

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