The marker is located near the corner of Hanover street with Rose street and it's precisely about this historical way.
The marker has two plaques, one focused in the street itself and its planning by architect John Craig and the other about the famous poets who were usuals in the pubs and cafes of the street.
The first text:
"Rose Street was designed in 1767 as part of the New Town plan, drawn up by architect James Craig His simple but elegant plan is still in place today, with a grid-iron of main streets and back lanes connecting two public squares. The streets were named with royal connections, with Rose and Thistle Streets after the English and Scottish national emblems."
The second text:
"In the 1950s and 60s Rose Street became well-known as the haunt of
a new wave of Scottish poets.
Writers such as Hugh MacDiarmid and Robert Garioch gathered with their friends for lively debate, in places such as Milne< Rar the Abbotstord and the Café Royal.
In the poem extract shown on the right, Robert Garioch describes his anger at having the pub invaded by
noisy visitors
'Tak me, O Lucifer, frae out this mess.
Hell's bad, but this is fair abominable' Doktor Faust in Rose Street by Robert Garioch"
The marker carries the logo of UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Now, from Wikipedia:
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"History
Rose Street was built from 1770 to 1781 as a secondary street running east to west from St Andrew Square to Charlotte Square on the south side of George Street. Its name "Rose" represents England as Thistle Street represents Scotland. Originally built as three-storey vernacular rubble houses it was not as grand as its surrounding streets. Built wholly as housing, by 1820 it was becoming a shopping street at ground floor. This change continued further and by the mid 20th century it was totally in shopping use (and also multiple bars). The nature of the street changing drastically in 1972 when multiple blocks were replaced by a standardised design, incorporating a projecting scalloped concrete canopy as part of an organised reconstruction by the Council, designed by Ian Burke Associates.
Notable individual buildings include the "Kenilworth Bar" by Thomas P. Marwick (1899) and the Eagle Buildings by George Washington Browne (1905).
The side lanes Rose Street Lanes North and Rose Street Lanes South act as service lanes to George Street and Princes Street respectively.
The street was pedestrianised in the 1980s.
Rose Street is also the home to the BT Rose Street Telephone Exchange, which connects much of the telecommunications infrastructure for the west side of the New Town of Edinburgh.
Bars and drinking history
Rose Street was nicknamed the "Amber Mile" by tourism promoters (later dropped) due to the many bars and public houses along it. This was partly in reference to the Royal Mile, but was misleading since it is neither an English nor a Scots mile in length.
Whilst some of the traditional pubs here have given way to ones with humorous names such as Dirty Dicks and Filthy McNastys, in keeping with its many Walter Scott references, Rose Street in Edinburgh has a bar called the "Kenilworth", along with one named after Scott's house, the "Abbotsford". Milne's Bar, also has literary connections, with one of its rooms nicknamed the "Little Kremlin", because many members of the Scottish Renaissance such as Hugh MacDiarmid would meet there. Pictures of various Scottish poets appear on the walls.
Rose Street, along with the history, is also famed for a rare drinking game: the Rose Street Challenge.[3] "Rose Street has... oh, I don't know how many pubs," explained Billy Connolly on-stage in 1987.[4] "It starts with the Abbottsford at one end, and I forget the names of the rest of them. I could hardly see the buggers. And the trick is to see how far along Rose Street you can get, having either a half pint or a pint. And in the morning you can see the marks, how far people got. There's wee bits of blood where people went, 'Oh, goodbye...' And the pavement pizza, you know? Some people carry bits of chalk – you know, rugby clubs – and they mark it: Falkirk Rugby Club made it to here.""