Lothian Street

No novelist has read more widely in the early days of the colony than Sir Walter Scott. So Abbotsford Street was named after his home, Dryburgh Street after the abbey where he was buried. Lothian Street runs between them — Scott’s novel The Heart of Mid-Lothian was the favorite of many.

“Lothian” comes from a root meaning low-lying. It was the name given to that part of Scotland’s Lowlands bounded on the north by the Firth of Forth, on the south by Lanark and Peebles, on the east by the North Sea and on the west by Stirling.

The Scots and English fought for centuries to possess this tract of country, but the final battle made it part of Scotland for all time.

It was worth fighting over. The soil is said to be the most fertile and easily worked in Britain. That prince of potatoes, the famous “Lothian Red”, has its home there.

There are also the ruins of magnificent castles, the stately mansions of fine estates, the rolling summits of the Pentland Hills, which form the backbone of the land, beauties of coastline and woodlands, the numerous sites of battles famous in the nation’s annals, some of them decisive in history.

Many Lowland Scots migrated to Victoria in the early days. It is not surprising, then, that North Melbourne has a Lothian Street — the only suburb, however, that has it.(1)

Source. (1) Northern Advertiser, Sept. 21, 1972. Blanchard collection, “What’s in a Name” at North Melbourne Library.

10 Little Lothian Street
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2 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



4 Lothian Street
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6 Lothian Street
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8 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



9 Lothian Street
West Melbourne VIC 3003



10 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



12 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



14 Lothian Street
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15 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



16 Lothian Street
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18 Lothian Street
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20 Lothian Street
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22 Lothian Street
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24 Lothian Street
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25 Lothian Street
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26 Lothian Street
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27 Lothian Street
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28 Lothian Street
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29 Lothian Street
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30 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



32 Lothian Street
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35 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051
Also known as Address Austinville House



37 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



39 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



40 Lothian Street
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41-43 Lothian Street
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42 Lothian Street
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43 Lothian Street
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44 Lothian Street
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46 Lothian Street
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50 Lothian Street
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54 Lothian Street
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55 Lothian Street
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56 Lothian Street
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57 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051
Also known as Address Wexford Cottage
Previous Address 63 Lothan Street before council street renumbering
Style Victorian, Mid: 1860-1875



59 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



59 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



60 Lothian Street
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61 Lothian Street
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62 Lothian Street
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64 Lothian Street
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65 Lothian Street
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66 Lothian Street
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68 Lothian Street
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70 Lothian Street
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71 Lothian Street
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72 Lothian Street
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77 Lothian Street
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78 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



80 Lothian Street
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81 Lothian Street
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85 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



87 Lothian Street
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88 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051



89 Lothian Street
North Melbourne VIC 3051