Centre Place

This guide to Centre Place traces the lane's unglamorous start in the 1890s as Cummings Alley, lined with public urinals and used by merchants to shift stock between loading docks. It follows the 1915 rebrand into Centre Court and the decades it spent as a plain service route, before 1980s planners turned shopfronts to face the laneway and small boutiques and cafes moved in. You'll hear how artists followed the crowds, layering stencils and posters over the brick year after year. Look up at the walls as you walk through and pick out how many layers you can count.