Abstract
On the surface, there could be few greater contrasts to the early twentieth-century observer of urban development in Britain and its dominions than that between ‘marvellous’ Melbourne . . . the [golden] Metropolis of the Southern Hemisphere’, in the new world of south-east Australia, and Middlesbrough, that grim, utilitarian ‘Ironopolis’, in the old world of north-east England. On closer inspection there were certain commonalities that make useful a comparison between the two in the early and mid-Victorian period. The focus of this article is narrow – the creation of uniformed police forces and their role in the creation of a well-ordered society in two dramatically expanding new towns – but forms part of a wider set of issues relating to the development of urban governance in the nineteenth century.
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