Previously known as Bull Alley.

Status: Date TBC.

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. 170, 141). ISBN 978-1-875173-12-9.

"By the 2020s, events in the central city regularly make use of laneways as stages and screens for cultural performance. The annual White Night Melbourne festival (2013-2019), an iteration of the Nuit Blanche International (NBI) festival franchise, featured illuminations and projections in little streets including Degraves Street as well as the broader Flinders Lane precinct. Three decades earlier, these types of events were far less frequent. In 1991, Premier Joan Kirner opened the Flinders Lane Festival celebrating the human face of the city' featuring entertainment, information displays, stalls, crafts, food and buskers and sponsored by the City of Melbourne, while in 1992 John Truscott, artistic consultant to the state government and the City of Melbourne, presaged 'a new role for Melbourne's laneways': State and municipal governments finessed a range of policy settings in the 1990s to achieve an enriched central city by the new century. In 2000, some Melburnians still bemoaned the loss of lanes and quirky shops, critical too of the irony that the soon-to-be-opened Federation Square simulated the city's laneway-like spaces at the very moment that they were still being lost to larger-scale development. Others, however, were noticing a sea change in the overall image of the lanes in Melbourne's urban iconography and culture. During the Melbourne Festival in October 2000, spectators navigated their way through litter and rubbish bins to view trapeze artists performing 'Laneway Vignettes' in Balcombe Place and Sudgen Place off Little Collins Street, an unusual enough location for cultural performances to draw comment in the press that 'These are spaces we usually ignore. The Nine Network's Postcards travel series featured an episode on Melbourne's favourite lanes and arcades, part of a slow but certain centring of lanes in Melbourne's imaginary." p. 170.