Degraves St Laneway

This guide to Degraves St Laneway in Melbourne starts with the steam-driven flour mill that brothers William and Charles Degraves fired up on this corner in 1851, and William's long seat on Victoria's Legislative Council. It follows the lane through a century of warehouses and importers, the 1955 underpass dug beneath it for commuters off the trains, and the shift from flour dust to coffee grounds that turned it into one of the city's most photographed strips. Best walked slowly, past the striped awnings, before the lunchtime queues form.