History North Tour

Category: Walking Tours
State: VIC

AUD $65.00

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2h
This is a historical tour that is a walk around the northern parts of the City Centre that is unique to Melbourne. Many law courts are located there and also the grand State Library of Victoria with its 100-year-old dome and more.

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We are proud to bring a historical walking tour to the northern part of the Melbourne city centre that has some great stories to be revealed to our visitors. The ‘Criminals and Counsellors’ Tour as we have nicknamed this tour examines those places a short walk north of the hip areas such as Flinders Lane.

Your guide will meet you on Lonsdale St on the west side of the city grid and will take you through the areas where the law was practiced from ‘wattle and daub’ mud shacks to the grand Supreme Court.

Stop by what was our first Exhibition Building and former mint, admire the oldest house in the city centre, old laneways with a very 19th Century feel and see where ‘shot’ was made up until 1961.

Admire the dome of the State Library that used to be the biggest in the world and view historical art showing places names long forgotten such as Emerald Hill, Batman’s Hill and Sandridge.

Other stops include the former clinic which treated the social diseases in abundance during the Little Lons period of legal prostitution and the building shown as the Supreme Court in the recently screened ‘Mystery of a Hansom Cab’!


Thanks for the payment. Your History and Laneways North Tour is confirmed on the date specified outside the County Court, cnr Lonsdale St and William St Melbourne under the entrance veranda. There is a picture in the tour page of the Court veranda we use for the tour. Note the tour is not an activity associated with the building – we merely use it as a start point. Your tour guide will be wearing a yellow MELTours bag. Note in case of no-shows and cancellations within 24 hours of the tour, to keep your booking a re-booking fee is needed to reschedule. To get the most out of your tour we recommend that you obtain a drink or coffee, visit the rest room and be at the start point 5 minutes prior. The tour will run each and every time except if lightening/hail is seen – right at the start or during the tour. Note that all tours have a 13yo+ limit which is enforced as all tours contain adult concepts. This is the tour booking confirmation – no tickets will be issued. We will see you on the day. Your mobile number will be used to advise of any last minute issues via text. This is a historical tour that uses some example laneways to highlight the history of Melbourne that is sometimes based around a number of laneways, hidden spaces and obscure buildings particular to the north side of the Melbourne CBD grid.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This tour has a 2 person minimum for the tour to run. Our booking staff will contact you via email and text at least 24 hours before the tour is to start if the tour hasn’t reached minimum numbers.

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