Pall Mall (Bendigo)

Pall Mall /ˌpæl ˈmæl/ is a major thoroughfare in the centre of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.

Pall Mall also forms a 500-metre section of the Midland Highway, one of Bendigo's main thoroughfares.

Since the 1860s, Pall Mall has been regarded as "one of the most charming thoroughfares in Australia"[1] and the collection of Victorian-era buildings in the Second Empire architectural style, gardens and statuary on either side of the wide tree-lined streetscape is unparalleled in regional Victoria.

Like its English namesake, Pall Mall in Bendigo is also in the immediate vicinity of the Charing Cross intersection.

After rapid European settlement in the Bendigo Valley following the official discovery of gold on Bendigo Creek in October 1851, "Pall Mall", together with the neighbouring "Charing Cross" junction, was planned in 1858 by the government and district surveyor Richard William Larritt, who planned the original township of "Sandhurst" in his "Plan of the Valley of Bendigo".

Pall Mall, Bendigo in 1909 with the Alexandra Fountain at Charing Cross in the foreground.
The Old Bendigo Law Courts and Pall Mall from Rosalind Park
Bendigo from Camp Hill in 1884. Pall Mall and the Charing Cross junction are clearly visible running from left to right at the bottom of the painting
Shamrock Hotel on Pall Mall
Tram on Pall Mall
Bendigo Post Office on Pall Mall
Bendigo from Camp Hill with Pall Mall running left to right in the centre of the picture
Statue of George Lansell in Bendigo
Statue of George Lansell on Pall Mall in Bendigo