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Event date27 July 2026

Heritage Address: City of Lanes with Robyn Annear

Presented by Open House Melbourne in partnership with the Heritage Council of Victoria.

Speaker Robyn Annear in Solidarity Hall within Trades Hall. Decorated with red workers banners.

Join writer, historian and curator Robyn Annear as she delves into the formative history of Melbourne’s laneways and the shadow network they weave through the city blocks. 

 Once a laneway-sceptic, Annear will reveal how the ‘City of Lanes’ rapidly evolved from Robert Hoddle’s orderly town grid, defined by broad, straight, surveillable streets and judiciously regulated allotments, into a web of passages stitched between what was meant to be seen. 

  • Date and time

    27 July 2026
    6:30pm – 8:00pm (AEST)

  • Location

    Victorian Trades hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton

  • Price

    $10

Image: John Denton with Jill Garner, courtesy of Open House Melbourne. Photo: Matt Richards

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