Historic Streets ROSE STREET
Feb 18, 2022
3 minutes
Words by JOSEPHINE JAY
Hidden behind Princes Street in Edinburgh’s city centre, Scotland’s ‘Amber Mile’ has a deep and winding history. Home to many bars (and bar brawls pre-Covid), Rose Street has long been a haunting ground of poets, punters, and even princes, all looking to unwind.
Rose Street was christened after the national flower of England in 1767 and twinned with Thistle Street, two roads along, in a further effort to foster unionist sentiment in the wake of the Acts of Union in 1707. The
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