Salmon Lane is an old road in Limehouse which has been a public highway since at the latest the 15th century. The road was once called Sermon Lane, the latter as it was the principal route from Limehouse to Stepney parish church.

According to the book Without the City Walls, Hector Bolitho and Derek Peel, at was named after Captain Robert Salmon, Master of Trinity House at the time of the Spanish Armada.

It long had a market and was the location of a warehouse storing imported turtles. They were brought straight from the docks, and from here many London firms furnishing the City and the West End with calipash and calipee were supplied.

From 1907, future director Alfred Hitchcock lived at 175 Salmon Lane when his father become a fishmonger there.

Salmon Lane Lock is on the Regent’s Canal. A new footbridge at the lock was completed in 2005 connecting Salmon Lane to Parnham Street.

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Main source:	The Hitchcock Zone
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