How Vulcan Lane Received Its Name
The transmutation of Vulcan Lane into a street breaks a link with earliest A-Uckland. In 1843 a brawny young man from Elgin, in Mor ayshir,e set up an engineering shop in the lane, ichich teas then a mere unformed track devised by section purchasers to obtain extra frontages to their lands. The shop was called the Vulcan Works and from that the lane was named. The voting man was James McLeod, who carried on business in the lane until 1860. After trying his hand at several things he returned to the city and undertook a contract for keeping the city’s roads in repair—a sidelight on the schemes of former civic authorities in meeting the problem. of financing street upkeep. James McLeod subsequently handled a blacks ynithing business at Russell and Rawene.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 307, 19 March 1928, Page 1
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137How Vulcan Lane Received Its Name Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 307, 19 March 1928, Page 1
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