MELBOURNE HISTORICAL RESEARCH GROUP

"NEW YORK" - known as 'The City'

The last house on Moira Street, awaiting demolition, in 1962. Photograph courtesy of Eunice Winspear. 'New York' comprised 34 original properties on 4 streets, named after the Hastings family of Donington Hall, as the Donington Estate owned the land until 1813. They were built between 1826-32 by the Melbourne Building Club comprising Messrs Beaumont Child, Thomas Piddock, John Clarkson and others:
  • Moira Street - colloquially, 'Pump Lane';
  • Rawdon Street;
  • Hastings Street;
  • Selina Street.
New housing areas were nicknamed after far-away places. 		The Corner Shop, which served the community at no 1 Rawdon Street. Photograph, circa 1970, courtesy of Philip Heath.
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