The historian was always a bit bemused with conjecture about a landmark Albury lane.

Amp Lane was the name thrown about, spoken of as a given.

The popular shopping strip runs at right angles to Volt Lane, so the reasoning was there had to be a connection.

“But amps and volts have got nothing to do it,” Mr Wooding said.

The name is “A.M.P. Lane”, complete with the full stops, and Albury Council is making it official.

Mr Wooding visited the council’s Kiewa Street offices after a recent council advertisement to officially name the laneway.

“I took an old government gazette that shows it’s called A.M.P. Lane and that there was the confusion with Amp Lane,” the Albury Historical Society member said.

Mr Wooding said he argued that it was not Amp but A.M.P. after the Australian Mutual Provident Society offices in the lane.

“One of the funny things was they put A.M.P. Lane up in Dean Street then put sticking plaster over the dots. That caused quite a bit of amusement,” he said.

“Look, it’s only a nonsense thing really, but we, as the historical society, like to see things right and the simple fact is that since 1888 it’s had an AMP Society on the corner of it.”

The council’s own advertisement tells the same story.

It said it had intended to adopt Amp Lane and record a connection with the Volt Lane electricity substation.

But it changed course when told “A.M.P. Lane” was more appropriate, given the community’s colloquial use of the name because of the AMP offices.

Mr Wooding said the name Volt Lane arose in 1916 when the substation was built.

“Earlier, it was Rose Lane, the lane beside the Rose Hotel,” he said.

The substation was removed as part of the tax office project on the old Volt Lane car park, with a new substation built close by.

Mr Wooding believed many people had mistakenly believed it was Amp Lane, based on an amps and volts connection.

“It’s simply purely coincidence the two fit in together. It’s not the way it was,” he said.

There is also a belief A.M.P. Lane runs to Smollett Street but, for now, the name relates to only the Dean Street- Volt Lane stretch.

“A.M.P. Lane — I’m quite delighted with,” Mr Wooding said.