Rhoda Street was formerly Peter Street.
By the end of the 17th century, the area was becoming home to Huguenot refugees. They brought silk weaving skills, so the cottages in the Old Nichol were equipped with wide weavers’ windows.
Around the turn of the 1800s, this was a road called 3 House Corner.
In the mid-19th century, the area became host to Irish Catholics escaping the potato famine. At the end of the 19th century there was another wave of Jewish immigration of East Europeans escaping pogroms and in the 1930s there was another wave of German Jews escaping Nazi Germany. In the 1960s and 1970s the Bangladeshi community started to develop.
