Cavendish Lane

Archivist's Excerpt from: Alone in the Cold: The Story of Orphan Towne, its Strange History, & its Stranger Occupants, CVI 42.4

In a cozy cozy corner of Attistock, well past the nearest tram station or access to the Merchant Circles, one will come upon a small streetrow, little more than an alleyway, labeled Cavendish Lane, better known as "Crazy Lane" among many of the people of Attistock and Harchester, and really, Algary in general, mostly for being host to not only the publicly-debunked metaphysical theories of the once-darling of the Grand Colonial Academy of Science, Agnes Esker, who rented out № 138 Cavendish, but especially for being the home office of Orphan's most famous (and only) fringe conspiracy publication, the Hilldiver, who still somehow, despite the Municipal General's best attempts, holds a key to № 412 Cavendish.

There is, of course, more to Cavendish Lane than this, but many of its former Orphan Heights Corps. of Engineers offices now sit empty, but not all. Many of the foremen and managerial staff of the Corps. of Tramway Engineers and especially of the Corps. of Limeiron Forgers use these spaces for their endless, endless paperwork, as do many of the bookeepers, who have to have somewhere to keep track of all the foremen's paperwork, and none of them much appreciate their offices being associated with the moniker, "Crazy Lane," by the bye, though they often feel it's nonetheless warranted.

They never say it out loud, though, without a Widowmaker in their hands.