Albert Coates Lane

Albert Coates Lane was classified as a private lane.

Named 2003.

Located at or near: 286 Swanston Street.

Probable or possible origin of name: Sir">https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/coates-sir-albert-ernest-9772">Sir Albert Coates OBE, leading surgeon, Royal Melbourne Hospital.

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. 139). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"Redevelopment of the Queen Victoria Hospital site, which opened in stages from 2003 as Queen Victoria (QV) Village, saw the creation of new laneways' on the block bounded by Lonsdale, Little Lonsdale, Swanston, and Russell streets. Albert Coates Lane (soldier and leading surgeon at the hospital), Jane Bell Lane (hospital matron), Artemis Lane (Greek goddess of childbirth), Shilling Lane (1896 Queen Victoria shilling fundraiser), and Red Cape Lane (nurses' red capes) referenced the medical history of the site. To an extent these new lanes mirrored older urban patterns of the city, but as avatars of the form and function of their historical counterparts, to some they have a blander and less authentic feel." p. 139.