Herbrand Street is in the east of Bloomsbury, running south from Tavistock Place to Guilford Street.
It was developed out of the remains of Colonnade Mews, Little Coram Street, and Little Guilford Street.
Most of its east side was on the Foundling estate (apart from the land sold to the Peabody Trust and the parish of St George’s Bloomsbury in the 1870s), while the west side was on the Bedford estate
It was built in 1901, occupying the former footprint of Colonnade Mews, Little Coram Street, and Little Guilford Street, with some buildings from these streets surviving to become part of the new street
It was named after Herbrand Russell, eleventh Duke of Bedford and first Mayor of the new Borough of Holborn
It was mainly intended to sweep away the worst of previous slums.
In the twentieth century it held an eclectic mixture of pubs, residential accommodation of various kinds, and a landmark Art Deco garage building