Rose Lane

Sometimes known as Rose Alley. 

Rose Lane was classified as a public lane.

Named pre-1856.

Located at or near: 613-617 Lonsdale St.

Probable or possible origin of name: Alexander Rose, hay and corn merchant, King Street.

Location is approximate.

For more information, see: Bate, W., Broome, R., Davis, N., May, A. J., & Stitt, H. (2024). The story of Melbourne’s lanes: Essential but unplanned (pp. 57, 139, 146). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"At the west end of Little Bourke Street, where only Wright Lane had been designated in 1847, all but 7 of the 22 rights of way were named in the 1858 directory. Going east from Spencer Street they were: (north side) White Hart Lane, Wright Lane, Goldie Alley, St Johns Alley, Turnbull Alley, Crombie Lane, Murcott Alley, Pender Alley, and Rose Alley; (south side) Merlin Alley, Vinge Alley, St Patricks Alley, Fulton Lane, Grimes Alley and Cosgrave Lane." p. 57.

"Rose Lane has been pedestrianised as part of the development and, like Watertank Way, has bollards across blocking through traffic. Across the road, its recently completed sister development, West Side Place, which includes a Ritz Carlton, is built on the site of the former Age newspaper office and has as one of its features 'open-air landscaped laneways'. This creation of laneways also features Heagney Passage, which is a short private entrance walkway off A'Beckett Street into the Queens Place development, and Lilardia Walk, providing entrance to the building off Queen Street. Heagney Passage is named for trade unionist and feminist Muriel Heagney (1885-1974), while Lilardia Walk was named after Aboriginal rights activist Margaret Tucker (1904-1996), Lilardia being her Aboriginal name, meaning flower." p. 146.