Lanes and Laneways in Beaumaris - Beaumaris Conservation Society

The
unnamed Lanes and Laneways in Beaumaris

The main area of laneways in Beaumaris, all of
which are unnamed and tend not to appear in street
directories, is shown – along with others in the
subdivision being promoted – on an estate agent’s map that
was probably issued before 1915, as the map refers
to the then horse tramway that ran along Tramway
Parade from the late 19th Century until it was
discontinued in 1915. See details of the Beaumaristramway

These laneways have been of little concern to
Beaumaris Conservation Society Inc. as their use
seems largely confined to the occupants of the
properties that abut them, so they do not impinge
on the visual or other amenity of Beaumaris
residents generally. The land occupied by those
lanes, and similar lanes in that main area, is one
of the least-changed parts of Beaumaris in the
last 60 years. The lanes between Keys and Sparks
Streets appear concreted in a 1951 Lands Department
aerial photograph, but others are unpaved.

That area of laneways is part of the early
land subdivision south of a line running east from
Reserve Road along Reid Street (but shown as Moore
Street on that map), then Martin Street, and finally
Bodley Street. Two large 19th Century buildings lay
just to the west and north-east of that subdivision
respectively, ‘The Point‘,
which was built in 1890 and demolished in 1959, and
the Beaumaris Hotel,
which was started in 1888 and nearly all demolished
in 2014.

Another clue supporting a pre-1915 date for that
early land subdivision is the seven streets in it named after 19th Century
councillors or officials of the then local
government body area it was part of, the former
Shire of Moorabbin, most of whom had died before
Beaumaris became in 1917 part of the new City of
Sandringham, which was succeeded by the present BaysideCity Council in 1994

There are a few other of the above type of laneway
in Beaumaris, as can be viewed in Googlesatellite view,

such as the one off the west
side of Haydens Road south of Florida Avenue, and
the one off the east side of Dalgetty Road just
south of Balcombe Road.

Link to Port Phillip
Conservation Council Inc. – BCS Inc. has been a Member
Organization of it since 1970