Running from Fleet Street to Aston Quay, the name of this laneway was changed from Lee’s Lane in 1884. The laneway appears as ‘Lees Lane’ in Rocque, and also in a map of 1764. In February 1884, the owners and tenants of houses on the laneway asked the Corporation to change the name to Aston…
A laneway leading from Temple Street into Nerney’s Court, this was unnamed until 1903, when the Children’s Hospital requested that it be named St Anthony’s Place. The hospital had established a ‘night school for girls, which is known as St Anthony’s Technical Night School’ on the laneway, and felt that the location needed a suitable…
Off Summerhill, this very short lane has a convoluted history, name-wise. Listed as ‘Hutton’s Lane’ in 1833, by 1841 it was called ‘Mountjoy Place, Lower’. That name lasted until 1861, after which it reverted to ‘Hutton’s Lane’. In 1878 the Corporation decided to change the name to ‘Hutton’s Place’, no doubt because of the ‘evil…
Originally named Dispensary Lane, the street was renamed Dorset Avenue in 1902 at the request of the owner of the properties on the lane, Robert White, 1 North Frederick Street. It seems that Dispensary Lane had ‘acquired a very undesirable reputation, in consequence of which it is found impossible to induce a good class of…
With an entrance on Dame Street, at the Olympia Theatre, the earliest reference to this laneway is in June 1637, when it was mentioned in the City Assembly Roll, described as ‘the way leadinge from the Custome house … to Damastrete‘. The first reference to the name appears in Shaw’s parochial survey of 1745. The…
