Neighbours get famous

TWO neighbouring central Dandenong laneways pay tribute to local businesses past.
The Journal office was once a weatherboard building at 1 Scott Street, Dandenong, where the Nu Hotel stands today.
Stalwart reporter Marg Stork once recalled long queues of people late on Wednesday afternoons waiting to buy the 72-page Journal for twopence.
“I was proud when the lane beside 1 Scott Street was named Dickson Lane,” she wrote.
The name recognised the paper’s late owner and editor, Greg Dickson.
McQuade Lane honours the family that established the Albion Hotel, which still stands at 329 Lonsdale Street.
The two-storey brick hotel was built in 1891 for Peter McQuade on the site of what’s believed to be Dandenong’s first store, which Alexander Bowman started in 1852.
The store later became the Mornington Arms Hotel, which Charles Dobson purchased in 1882 and re-named the Albion.
Peter McQuade was the proprietor in 1889 and the McQuades soon replaced the early one-storey timber building with the present two-storey structure.
The hotel has been in the possession of the McQuade family continuously since that time.
The verandah has been removed, but the facade has remained largely unaltered.