Green’s Dictionary of Slang

lane n.¹

the throat.

1550

Udall Ralph Roister Doister I iii: m. mumbl: Sweet malt maketh jolly good ale for the nonce. tib. talk: Which will slide down the lane without any bones.

In phrases

red lane (n.) (also red lane alley, red lion lane)

the throat.

1708		Humours of a Coffee-House 2 Jan. 84: I have the rarest Collection of Toasts in the World, they are enough to make any Liquor run Merrily down the red lane, down the Red Lane, Boys, down the Red Lane.
1751		Scots Mag. 13 May 19/2: (Drinks) Delicious! Oh! down the red lane it goes.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1812		G. Colman Yngr ‘The Lady of the Wreck’ in Poetical Vagaries 70: ‘O! butter’d egg! best eaten with a spoon,’ / ‘I bid your yelk [sic] glide down my throat’s red lane’.
1828		G. Smeeton Doings in London 110: The tea-drinker pours down his ‘red lane’ [...] a rare mess of stuff enough to poison a dog!
1843		T. Haliburton Sam Slick in England II 46: I [...] was a turnin’ of an egg inside out into a wine-glass, to salt and pepper it for Red-lane Alley.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1865		London Society Jan. 13: I eat the macaroon. You see it’s all gone down Red Lion Lane [F&H].
1873		Sl. Dict.
1890		Sporting Times 4 Jan. 6: Sally’s organ-of-kiss is ready and waiting, and before the chill night air can get in its fell work on that bull’s eye, it has disappeared down Sarah’s red lane.
1933		‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight.
1982		J. Sullivan ‘The Long Legs of the Law’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] A nice drop of the old bacon fat, slides down the little red lane like a pint of Duckhams.
1995		P. O’Keeffe Down Cobbled Streets, A Liberties Childhood 98: ‘Down the red lane.’ She stood over me every morning while I swallowed a concoction of raw egg beaten with a touch of sugar and hot milk.