The Lost Ones (VII)

  the lost ones (VII)   23.11.2013

I once lived on Victoria Street on the border of North and West Melbourne.

It was a fairly nondescript 1930s house but it sat on the site of what was once the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum.

Designed by Melbourne’s City Surveyor Charles Laing (1809-1857) the building in its earliest form dates from 1850. A new wing was slapped on every ten years or so until the Asylum moved to Cheltenham and the building was demolished in 1911.