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Pepys starts diary
On 1 January 1659, Samuel Pepys started his famous daily diary and maintained it for ten years. The diary has become perhaps the most extensive source of information on this critical period of English history. Pepys never considered that his diary would be read by others. The original diary consisted of six volumes written in Shelton shorthand, which he had learned as an undergraduate on scholarship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. This shorthand was introduced in 1626, and was the same system Isaac Newton used when writing.
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Graham O’Connell Added: 10 Apr 2021 10:24 GMT |
Lloyd & Sons, Tin Box Manufacturers (1859 - 1982)
A Lloyd & Sons occupied the wharf (now known as Lloyds Wharf, Mill Street) from the mid 19th Century to the late 20th Century. Best known for making tin boxes they also produced a range of things from petrol canisters to collecting tins. They won a notorious libel case in 1915 when a local councillor criticised the working conditions which, in fairness, weren’t great. There was a major fire here in 1929 but the company survived at least until 1982 and probably a year or two after that.
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Jeff Owen Added: 20 Mar 2021 16:18 GMT |
Owen’s School
Owen Street is the site of Owen’s Boys’ School. The last school was built in 1881 and was demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the development which stand there today. It was a ’Direct Grant’ grammar school and was founded in 1613 by Dame Alice Owen. What is now ’Owen’s Fields’ was the playground between the old school and the new girls’ school (known then as ’Dames Alice Owen’s School’ or simply ’DAOS’). The boys’ school had the top two floors of that building for their science labs. The school moved to Potters Bar in Hertfordshire in 1971 and is now one of the top State comprehensive schools in the country. The old building remained in use as an accountancy college and taxi-drivers’ ’knowledge’ school until it was demolished. The new building is now part of City and Islington College. Owen’s was a fine school. I should know because I attended there from 1961 to 1968.
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jack stevens Added: 26 Sep 2021 13:38 GMT |
Mothers birth place
Number 5 Whites Row which was built in around 1736 and still standing was the premises my now 93 year old mother was born in, her name at birth was Hilda Evelyne Shaw,
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margaret clark Added: 15 Oct 2021 22:23 GMT |
Margaret’s address when she married in 1938
^, Josepine House, Stepney is the address of my mother on her marriage certificate 1938. Her name was Margaret Irene Clark. Her father Basil Clark was a warehouse grocer.
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Added: 6 Nov 2021 15:03 GMT |
Old Nichol Street, E2
Information about my grandfather’s tobacconist shop
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Steven Shepherd Added: 4 Feb 2021 14:20 GMT |
Our House
I and my three brothers were born at 178 Pitfield Street. All of my Mothers Family (ADAMS) Lived in the area. There was an area behind the house where the Hoxton Stall holders would keep the barrows. The house was classed as a slum but was a large house with a basement. The basement had 2 rooms that must have been unchanged for many years it contained a ’copper’ used to boil and clean clothes and bedlinen and a large ’range’ a cast iron coal/log fired oven. Coal was delivered through a ’coal hole’ in the street which dropped through to the basement. The front of the house used to be a shop but unused while we lived there. I have many more happy memories of the house too many to put here.
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MCNALLY Added: 17 May 2021 09:42 GMT |
Blackfriars (1959 - 1965)
I lived in Upper Ground from 1959 to 1964 I was 6 years old my parents Vince and Kitty run the Pub The Angel on the corner of Upper Ground and Bodies Bridge. I remember the ceiling of the cellar was very low and almost stretched the length of Bodies Bridge. The underground trains run directly underneath the pub. If you were down in the cellar when a train was coming it was quite frightening
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Martin Eaton Added: 14 Oct 2021 03:56 GMT |
Boundary Estate
Sunbury, Taplow House.
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STEPHEN JACKSON Added: 14 Nov 2021 17:25 GMT |
Fellows Court, E2
my family moved into the tower block 13th floor (maisonette), in 1967 after our street Lenthall rd e8 was demolished, we were one of the first families in the new block. A number of families from our street were rehoused in this and the adjoining flats. Inside toilet and central heating, all very modern at the time, plus eventually a tarmac football pitch in the grounds,(the cage), with a goal painted by the kids on the brick wall of the railway.
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The Underground Map Added: 8 Mar 2021 15:05 GMT |
A plague on all your houses
Aldgate station is built directly on top of a vast plague pit, where thousands of bodies are apparently buried. No-one knows quite how many.
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Tom Added: 21 May 2021 23:07 GMT |
Blackfriars
What is, or was, Bodies Bridge?
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Added: 21 Apr 2021 16:21 GMT |
Liverpool Street
the Bishopsgate station has existed since 1840 as a passenger station, but does not appear in the site’s cartography. Evidently, the 1860 map is in fact much earlier than that date.
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Added: 27 Jul 2021 14:31 GMT |
correction
Chaucer did not write Pilgrims Progress. His stories were called the Canterbury Tales
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Lena Added: 18 Mar 2021 13:08 GMT |
White Conduit Street, N1
My mum, Rosina Wade of the Wade and Hannam family in the area of Chapel Street and Parkfield Street, bought her first ’costume’ at S Cohen’s in White Conduit Street. Would have probably been about 1936 or thereabouts. She said that he was a small man but an expert tailor. I hope that Islington Council preserve the shop front as it’s a piece of history of the area. Mum used to get her high heel shoes from an Italian shoe shop in Chapel Street. She had size 2 feet and they would let her know when a new consignment of size 2 shoes were in. I think she was a very good customer. She worked at Killingbacks artificial flower maker in Northampton Square and later at the Halifax bombers factory north of Edgware where she was a riveter.
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John Neill Added: 25 Nov 2021 11:30 GMT |
Sandringham Road, E10 (1937 - 1966)
I lived at No. 61 with my parents during these years. I went to Canterbury Road school (now Barclay Primary) and sang as a boy soprano (treble) in the church choir at St Andrew’s church, on the corner of Forest Glade.
Opposite us lived the Burgess family. Their son Russell also sang in my choir as a tenor. He later became a well-known musician and the choirmaster at Wandsworth Boys’ School.
Just at the end of WW2 a German rocket (V2) landed in the grounds of Whipps Cross Hospital, damaging many of the houses in Sandringham Road, including ours.
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Tim Stevenson Added: 16 Nov 2021 18:03 GMT |
Pub still open
The Bohemia survived the 2020/21 lockdowns and is still a thriving local social resource.
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STEPHEN JACKSON Added: 14 Nov 2021 17:25 GMT |
Fellows Court, E2
my family moved into the tower block 13th floor (maisonette), in 1967 after our street Lenthall rd e8 was demolished, we were one of the first families in the new block. A number of families from our street were rehoused in this and the adjoining flats. Inside toilet and central heating, all very modern at the time, plus eventually a tarmac football pitch in the grounds,(the cage), with a goal painted by the kids on the brick wall of the railway.
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STEPHEN ARTHUR JACKSON Added: 14 Nov 2021 17:12 GMT |
Lynedoch Street, E2
my father Arthur Jackson was born in lynedoch street in 1929 and lived with mm grandparents and siblings, until they were relocated to Pamela house Haggerston rd when the street was to be demolished
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Sir Walter Besant Added: 11 Nov 2021 18:47 GMT |
Sir Walter adds....
All the ground facing Wirtemberg Street at Chip and Cross Streets is being levelled for building and the old houses are disappearing fast. The small streets leading through into little Manor Street are very clean and tenanted by poor though respectable people, but little Manor Street is dirty, small, and narrow. Manor Street to Larkhall Rise is a wide fairly clean thoroughfare of mixed shops and houses which improves towards the north. The same may be said of Wirtemberg Street, which commences poorly, but from the Board School north is far better than at the Clapham end.
Source: London: South of the Thames - Chapter XX by Sir Walter Besant (1912)
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Added: 6 Nov 2021 15:03 GMT |
Old Nichol Street, E2
Information about my grandfather’s tobacconist shop
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tom Added: 3 Nov 2021 05:16 GMT |
I met
someone here 6 years ago
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Fion Anderson Added: 2 Nov 2021 12:55 GMT |
Elstree not Borehamwood
Home of the UK film industry
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St Matthew Friday Street St. Matthew Friday Street was a church in the City of London located on Friday Street, off Cheapside. St Michael-le-Querne St Michael-le-Querne, also called St Michael ad Bladum, was a parish church in the Farringdon Within Ward in the City of London. St Peter, Westcheap St Peter, Westcheap, sometimes known simply as ’St Peter Cheap’, was a parish church in the City of London. St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street, was a parish church in the City of London, England. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt. Albion Way, EC1A Albion Way is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area. Aldermanbury Square, EC2V At the centre of Saxon London, the aldermen (elder statesmen of City wards) met in a ’bury’ (house) in a time before the Guildhall was built. Aldermanbury, EC2V Aldermanbury is the Saxon name for ’Eldermen’ (elder statesmen) and ’bury’ (house). Andrewes Highwalk, EC2Y Andrewes Highwalk is named for Lancelot Andrewes, rector of the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church. Angel Street, EC1A Angel Street runs between King Edward Street in the west and St. Martin’s Le Grand in the east. Austin Friars, EC2N Austin Friars was an Augustinian friary from its foundation in the 1260s, until its dissolution in 1538. Ball Court, EC3V Ball Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area. Bartholomew Lane, EC3V Bartholomew Lane runs between the junction of Lothbury and Throgmorton Street in the north to Threadneedle Street in the south. Bishopsgate, EC2N Bishopsgate is named after one of the original eight gates in the London Wall. Bow Lane, EC4M Bow Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area. Broadgate, EC2M Broadgate is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area. Bryer Court, EC2Y Bryer Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area. Capel Court, EC2R On the east side of the Bank of England turn into Bartholomew Lane. Capel Court is off to the east. Carey Lane, EC2V Carey Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area. Change Alley, EC3V Change Alley is a thoroughfare between Lombard Street and Cornhill in London’s financial district. Charterhouse Square, EC1M Charterhouse Square is the largest courtyard associated with London Charterhouse, mostly formed of Tudor and Stuart architecture restored after the Blitz. Cheapside, EC2V Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London. Cloth Court, EC1M Cloth Court is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area. Cornhill, EC3V Cornhill is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area. Crown Court, EC2V Crown Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area. Crown Place, EC2A Crown Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area. Earl Street, EC2A Earl Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area. East Market, EC2Y East Market is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area. Finch Lane, EC3V Finch Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area. Finsbury Court, EC2A Finsbury Court was obliterated in a redevelopment programme taking in Finsbury Pavement. Fore Street, EC2Y Fore Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area. Foster Lane, EC2V Foster Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area. Gutter Lane, EC2V Gutter Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area. Honey Lane, EC2V Honey Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area. King Street, EC2V King Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area. Lauderdale Tower, EC2Y Lauderdale Tower is the westernmost tower in the Barbican, facing onto Lauderdale Place. London Wall, EC2M London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area. London Wall, EC2Y London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area. London Wall, EC2Y London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area. Long Lane, EC1A Long Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area. Lothbury, EC2R Lothbury is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area. Love Lane, EC2V Love Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area. Milk Street, EC2V Milk Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area. Mitre Court, EC2V Mitre Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area. Moorfields, EC2Y Moorfields is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area. Moorgate, EC2M Moorgate is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area. Moorgate, EC2R Moorgate is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area. New Change, EC4M New Change is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area. Oat Lane, EC2V Oat Lane has been marked on London maps since 1600 and before. Old Jewry, EC2R Old Jewry is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area. Poultry, EC2R Poultry is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area. Rose Street, EC4M Rose Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area. Royal Court, EC3V Royal Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area. Russia Row, EC2V Russia Row is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area. Silk Street, EC2Y Silk Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area. Silver Street, EC2V Silver Street was the location of a house in which William Shakespeare lived during his time in London. South Place, EC2M South Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area. 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The Flying Horse This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. The Gable This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. The Globe This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. The Golden Fleece This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. The Green Man This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. The Jugged Hare This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. The Lord Raglan This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. The Paternoster This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. The Rack & Tenter This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. The Railway Tavern This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. The Red Lion This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. The Telegraph This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. The Tokenhouse The Tokenhouse is named for the nearby manufacturer of tokens that were used as the copper coinage of England before the 1680s. Unknown as yet This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. Unknown as yet This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. Vertigo 42 This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so. Ye Olde Watling This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
The City of London constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages, but the conurbation has since grown far beyond its borders.
As the City's boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, it is now only a tiny part of the metropolis of Greater London, though it remains a notable part of central London. It holds city status in its own right and is also a separate ceremonial county.
It is widely referred to as 'The City' (often written on maps as City and differentiated from the phrase 'the city of London') or 'the Square Mile' as it is 1.12 square miles in area. These terms are also often used as metonyms for the United Kingdom's financial services industry, which continues a notable history of being largely based in the City.
The local authority for the City, the City of London Corporation, is unique in the UK and has some unusual responsibilities for a local council, such as being the police authority. It also has responsibilities and ownerships beyond the City's boundaries. The Corporation is headed by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, an office separate from (and much older than) the Mayor of London.
The City is a major business and financial centre, ranking as the world's leading centre of global finance. Throughout the 19th century, the City was the world's primary business centre, and continues to be a major meeting point for businesses.
The City had a resident population of about 7000 in 2011 but over 300,000 people commute to it and work there, mainly in the financial services sector. The legal profession forms a major component of the northern and western sides of the City - especially in the Temple and Chancery Lane areas where the Inns of Court are located, of which two—Inner Temple and Middle Temple - fall within the City of London boundary.
Basinghall Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
