As early as 1860, Bennetts Lane was home to baker and pastry cook, John Brenssell. Soon after, it became filled with manufacturing and processing workshops, stables and a glass foundry – a humming nerve centre right from the start.
Bennetts Lane
was a humming
nerve centre right
from the start.
Bennetts Lane
was a humming
nerve centre right
from the start.
Since jazz hit the scene in the 1920s, Melbourne has been Australia’s jazz Mecca. Through the 1960s and 1970s, Bennetts Lane was one of the most popular intimate laneway venues for modern jazz, playing the pure New Orleans style and repertoire six or seven nights a week. A popular local jazz club has even been named in its honour.
