St Alphage Garden, EC2Y

St Alphage Garden is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

The distinction between 'Street', 'Road', 'Avenue', Terrace', 'Lane' etc. has merged over the years but they each once had a precise meaning.

To the Romans some thoroughfares constructed with layers of rock and rubble was a 'via strata', (paved way) giving us the word street. The word outlived its original meaning and took on its present one of a way lined with houses.

Road, on the other hand is derived from the verb 'to ride'. It indicated a highway used by travellers on horseback.

Lane has generally managed to keep its ancient meaning of a narrow or winding path. In the suburbs, Lane usually indicates a genuine pre-urban track.

Hill originally referred only to the piece of raised ground and not to the road over it. Nowadays it can simply mean 'road built on a slope'

Many London street names reflect the 'Good Times' in English history, i.e. victories, alliances, royal marriages and achievements. A favourite topical subject was royalty, commemorating births, deaths and marriages. George IV's brothers, York, Clarence, Kent, Cumberland, Sussex and Cambridge were all popular with c19th builders.

Less popular than royals were the names commemorating 'the great and the good', events or mythology. e.g. Hengist, Horsa, Gordon, Havelock, Wellington, Maida, Lancelot and Merlin

Gillian Bebbington

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

The Underground Map Aldgate 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. Reply
MCNALLY Blackfriars 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 Reply
Tom Blackfriars Added: 21 May 2021 23:07 GMT	Blackfriars What is, or was, Bodies Bridge? Reply
Liverpool Street 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. Reply
Graham O’Connell Lloyds Wharf, SE1 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. Reply
The Underground Map Pepys Street, EC3N Added: 20 Sep 2020 13:01 GMT	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. Reply
Steven Shepherd Pitfield Street, N1 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. Reply
Lena White Conduit Street, N1 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. Reply
Jeff Owen Owen Street, EC1V 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. Reply
All bar one Added: 3 Jun 2021 15:50 GMT	All Bar One The capitalisation is wrong Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

old lady Cheltenham Road, SE15 Added: 19 Jul 2021 11:58 GMT	mis information Cheltenham road was originally Hall road not Hill rd original street name printed on house still standing Reply
Patricia Bridges Lancefield Coachworks Added: 19 Jul 2021 10:57 GMT	Lancefield Coachworks My grandfather Tom Murray worked here Reply
Former Philbeach Gardens Resident Philbeach Gardens, SW5 Added: 14 Jul 2021 00:44 GMT	Philbeach Gardens Resident (Al Stewart) Al Stewart, who had huts in the 70s with the sings ’Year of the Cat’ and ’On The Borders’, lived in Philbeach Gdns for a while and referenced Earl’s Court in a couple of his songs. I lived in Philbeach Gardens from a child until my late teens. For a few years, on one evening in the midst of Summer, you could hear Al Stewart songs ringing out across Philbeach Gardens, particularly from his album ’Time Passages". I don’t think Al was living there at the time but perhaps he came back to see some pals. Or perhaps the broadcasters were just his fans,like me. Either way, it was a wonderful treat to hear! Reply
David James Bloomfield Hurstway Street, W10 Added: 13 Jul 2021 11:54 GMT	Hurstway Street, W10 Jimmy Bloomfield who played for Arsenal in the 1950s was brought up on this street. He was a QPR supporter as a child, as many locals would be at the time, as a teen he was rejected by them as being too small. They’d made a mistake Reply
[email protected] Wren Road, SE5 Added: 6 Jul 2021 05:38 GMT	Wren Road in the 1950s and 60s Living in Grove Lane I knew Wren Road; my grandfather’s bank, Lloyds, was on the corner; the Scout District had their office in the Congregational Church and the entrance to the back of the Police station with the stables and horses was off it. Now very changed - smile. Reply
fariba Tower Bridge Business Complex, S Added: 28 Jun 2021 00:48 GMT	Tower Bridge Business Complex, S need for my coursework Source: university Reply
Kim Johnson Limehouse Causeway (1908) Added: 24 Jun 2021 19:17 GMT	Limehouse Causeway (1908) My great grandparents were the first to live in 15 Tomlins Terrace, then my grandparents and parents after marriage. I spent the first two years of my life there. My nan and her family lived at number 13 Tomlins Terrace. My maternal grandmother lived in Maroon house, Blount Street with my uncle. Nan, my mum and her brothers were bombed out three times during the war. Reply
Peter H Davies Ethelburga Street, SW11 Added: 17 Jun 2021 09:33 GMT	Ethelburga Estate The Ethelburga Estate - named after Ethelburga Road - was an LCC development dating between 1963–65. According to the Wikipedia, it has a "pleasant knitting together of a series of internal squares". I have to add that it’s extremely dull :) Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

All Hallows, Honey Lane All Hallows, Honey Lane was parish church in the City of London.

All Hallows, Honey Lane

Bank of England The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom.

Bank of England

Half Moon Court, EC1A Halfmoon Court is the southern most of five passages leading eastward from Kinghorn Street.

Half Moon Court, EC1A

Old Dick Whittington The Dick Whittington Inn at 24 Cloth Fair was a sixteenth century building and once part of a row of medieval buildings lining the street.

Old Dick Whittington

St Bartholomew’s Hospital St Bartholomew’s Hospital, also known simply as Barts and later more formally as The Royal Hospital of St Bartholomew, is a hospital located at Smithfield in the City of London and founded in 1123.

St Bartholomew’s Hospital

St Martin Pomary St Martin Pomeroy was a parish church in the Cheap ward of the City of London.

St Martin Pomary

St Matthew Friday Street St. Matthew Friday Street was a church in the City of London located on Friday Street, off Cheapside.

St Matthew Friday Street

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 Michael-le-Querne

St Peter, Westcheap St Peter, Westcheap, sometimes known simply as ’St Peter Cheap’, was a parish church in the City of London.

St Peter, Westcheap

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.

St. Mary Magdalen, Milk Street

NEARBY STREETS

Adams Court, EC2N Adam’s Court is thought to be named for Sir Thomas Adams.

Adams Court, EC2N

Albion Way, EC1A Albion Way is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Albion Way, EC1A

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 Square, EC2V

Aldermanbury, EC2V Aldermanbury is the Saxon name for ’Eldermen’ (elder statesmen) and ’bury’ (house).

Aldermanbury, EC2V

Aldersgate Street, EC2Y Aldersgate Street is located on the west side of the Barbican Estate.

Aldersgate Street, EC2Y

Andrewes Highwalk, EC2Y Andrewes Highwalk is named for Lancelot Andrewes, rector of the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church.

Andrewes Highwalk, EC2Y

Andrewes House, EC2Y Residential block

Andrewes House, EC2Y

Angel Court, EC2R Angel Court is named after a long demolished inn of this name.

Angel Court, EC2R

Angel Street, EC1A Angel Street runs between King Edward Street in the west and St. Martin’s Le Grand in the east.

Angel Street, EC1A

Austin Friars, EC2N Austin Friars was an Augustinian friary from its foundation in the 1260s, until its dissolution in 1538.

Austin Friars, EC2N

Bartholomew Close, EC1A Bartholomew Close is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Bartholomew Close, EC1A

Bartholomew Lane, EC3V Bartholomew Lane runs between the junction of Lothbury and Throgmorton Street in the north to Threadneedle Street in the south.

Bartholomew Lane, EC3V

Bartholomew Passage, EC1A Bartholomew Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Bartholomew Passage, EC1A

Bartholomew Place, EC1A Bartholomew Place is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Bartholomew Place, EC1A

Basinghall Avenue, EC2V Basinghall Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Basinghall Avenue, EC2V

Basinghall Street, EC2V Basinghall Street joins Gresham Street to the south.

Basinghall Street, EC2V

Bassishaw Highwalk, EC2V Bassishaw Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Bassishaw Highwalk, EC2V

Bastion Highwalk, EC2Y Bastion Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Bastion Highwalk, EC2Y

Beech Street, EC1Y Beech Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Beech Street, EC1Y

Bells Alley, EC2N Bells Alley is a road in the SW6 postcode area

Bells Alley, EC2N

Blomfield Street, EC2M Blomfield Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

Blomfield Street, EC2M

Bow Churchyard, EC2V Bow Churchyard is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Bow Churchyard, EC2V

Brandon Mews, EC2Y Brandon Mews is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Brandon Mews, EC2Y

Brewers Hall Gardens, EC2V Brewers Hall Gardens is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Brewers Hall Gardens, EC2V

Bridgewater Square, EC2Y Bridgewater Square is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Bridgewater Square, EC2Y

Broad Street Place, EC2M Broad Street Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

Broad Street Place, EC2M

Bryer Court, EC2Y Bryer Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Bryer Court, EC2Y

Bull and Mouth Street, EC2V Bull and Mouth Street ran between King Edward Street and St Martin’s Le Grand.

Bull and Mouth Street, EC2V

Capel Court, EC2R On the east side of the Bank of England turn into Bartholomew Lane. Capel Court is off to the east.

Capel Court, EC2R

Carey Lane, EC2V Carey Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Carey Lane, EC2V

Carthusian Street, EC1A Carthusian Street is a road in the EC1A postcode area

Carthusian Street, EC1A

Charterhouse Mews, EC1A Charterhouse Mews is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Charterhouse Mews, EC1A

Charterhouse Square, EC1M Charterhouse Square is the largest courtyard associated with London Charterhouse, mostly formed of Tudor and Stuart architecture restored after the Blitz.

Charterhouse Square, EC1M

Cheapside, EC2V Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London.

Cheapside, EC2V

Cherry Tree Walk, EC1Y Cherry Tree Walk is a road in the EC1Y postcode area

Cherry Tree Walk, EC1Y

Chiswell Street, EC2Y Chiswell Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Chiswell Street, EC2Y

Chiswell Street, SE5 Chiswell Street is a location in London.

Chiswell Street, SE5

Christopher Street, EC2A Christopher Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Christopher Street, EC2A

Cloth Court, EC1M Cloth Court is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Cloth Court, EC1M

Cloth Fair, EC1A Cloth Fair stands where the original Bartholomew Fair was held in medieval times.

Cloth Fair, EC1A

Cloth Street, EC1M Cloth Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Cloth Street, EC1M

Coleman Street, EC2V Coleman Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Coleman Street, EC2V

Compter Passage, EC2V Compter Passage is a location in London.

Compter Passage, EC2V

Copthall Avenue Drapers Gardens, EC2N Drapers Gardens is a block in Copthall Avenue.

Copthall Avenue Drapers Gardens, EC2N

Copthall Avenue, EC2N Copthall Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.

Copthall Avenue, EC2N

Copthall Avenue, EC2R Copthall Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Copthall Avenue, EC2R

Cripplegate Street, EC1Y Cripplegate Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Cripplegate Street, EC1Y

Defoe House, EC2Y Residential block

Defoe House, EC2Y

Dominion Street, EC2M Dominion Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

Dominion Street, EC2M

East Market, EC2Y East Market is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

East Market, EC2Y

East Passage, EC1A East Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

East Passage, EC1A

Eldon Street, EC2M Eldon Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

Eldon Street, EC2M

Fann Street, EC1Y Fann Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Fann Street, EC1Y

Ferroners House, EC2Y Ferroners House

Ferroners House, EC2Y

Finsbury Avenue, EC2M Finsbury Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

Finsbury Avenue, EC2M

Finsbury Circus Gardens, EC2M Finsbury Circus Gardens is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

Finsbury Circus Gardens, EC2M

Finsbury Circus, EC2M Finsbury Circus is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

Finsbury Circus, EC2M

Finsbury Court, EC2A Finsbury Court was obliterated in a redevelopment programme taking in Finsbury Pavement.

Finsbury Court, EC2A

Finsbury Pavement, EC2M Finsbury Pavement was the first pavement of firm ground north of the marshy Moorfields.

Finsbury Pavement, EC2M

Finsbury Square, EC2A Finsbury Square is a 0.7-hectare square in central London which includes a six-rink grass bowling green.

Finsbury Square, EC2A

Finsbury Street, EC2A Finsbury Street is a road in the EC2Y postcode area

Finsbury Street, EC2A

Florin Court, EC1M Florin Court is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Florin Court, EC1M

Fore Street Avenue, EC2Y Fore Street Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Fore Street Avenue, EC2Y

Fore Street, EC2Y Fore Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Fore Street, EC2Y

Foster Lane, EC2V Foster Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Foster Lane, EC2V

Fosterrace Lane, EC2V A street within the EC2V postcode

Fosterrace Lane, EC2V

Founders Court, EC2R Founders Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Founders Court, EC2R

Fredericks Place, EC2V Fredericks Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Fredericks Place, EC2V

Gilbert Bridge, EC2Y Gilbert Bridge is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Gilbert Bridge, EC2Y

Gilbert House, EC2Y Residential block

Gilbert House, EC2Y

Glasshouse Yard, EC2Y Glasshouse Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Glasshouse Yard, EC2Y

Golden Lane, EC2Y Golden Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Golden Lane, EC2Y

Goldsmith Street, EC2V Goldsmith Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Goldsmith Street, EC2V

Great Swan Alley, EC2R Great Swan Alley is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Great Swan Alley, EC2R

Great Winchester Street, EC2N Great Winchester Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.

Great Winchester Street, EC2N

Gresham Street, EC2V Gresham Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Gresham Street, EC2V

Groveland Court, EC4M Groveland Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Groveland Court, EC4M

Guildhall Buildings, EC2V Guildhall Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Guildhall Buildings, EC2V

Guildhall Yard, EC2V Guildhall Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Guildhall Yard, EC2V

Gutter Lane, EC2V Gutter Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Gutter Lane, EC2V

Haven Road, RM13 Haven Road is a location in London.

Haven Road, RM13

Hayne Street, EC1A Hayne Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Hayne Street, EC1A

Honey Lane, EC2V Honey Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Honey Lane, EC2V

Ironmonger Lane, EC2V Ironmonger Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Ironmonger Lane, EC2V

Ironmongers Hall Shaftesbury Place, EC2Y Ironmongers Hall Shaftesbury Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Ironmongers Hall Shaftesbury Place, EC2Y

King Edward Street, EC1A King Edward Street runs from Newgate Street in the south to Little Britain in the north.

King Edward Street, EC1A

King Street, EC2V King Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

King Street, EC2V

Kinghorn Street, EC1A Kinghorn Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Kinghorn Street, EC1A

Kings Arms Yard, EC2R Kings Arms Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Kings Arms Yard, EC2R

King’s Arms Yard, EC2R King’s Arms Yard runs east from Moorgate Street.

King’s Arms Yard, EC2R

Lackington Street, EC2M Lackington Street is a road in the EC2A postcode area

Lackington Street, EC2M

Lamb’s Passage, EC1Y Lamb’s Passage was formerly Great Swordbearers (Sword Bearers) Alley.

Lamb’s Passage, EC1Y

Lauderdale Tower, EC2Y Lauderdale Tower is the westernmost tower in the Barbican, facing onto Lauderdale Place.

Lauderdale Tower, EC2Y

Lawrence Lane, EC2V Lawrence Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Lawrence Lane, EC2V

Lindsey Street, EC1A Lindsey Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Lindsey Street, EC1A

Little Britain, EC1A Little Britain is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Little Britain, EC1A

Little Britain, EC1M Little Britain is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Little Britain, EC1M

London Wall, EC2M London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

London Wall, EC2M

London Wall, EC2Y London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

London Wall, EC2Y

London Wall, EC2Y London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

London Wall, EC2Y

Long Lane, EC1A Long Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Long Lane, EC1A

Lothbury, EC2R Lothbury is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Lothbury, EC2R

Love Lane, EC2V Love Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Love Lane, EC2V

Mason’s Avenue, EC2V A street within the EC2V postcode

Mason’s Avenue, EC2V

Middle Street, EC1A Middle Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Middle Street, EC1A

Middlesex Passage, EC1A Middlesex Passage is a location in London.

Middlesex Passage, EC1A

Milk Street, EC2V Milk Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Milk Street, EC2V

Milton Court, EC2Y Milton Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Milton Court, EC2Y

Milton Street, EC2Y Milton Street was formerly known as Grub Street.

Milton Street, EC2Y

Mitre Court, EC2V Mitre Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Mitre Court, EC2V

Monkwell Square, EC2Y Monkwell Square is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Monkwell Square, EC2Y

Moorfields Highwalk, EC2Y Moorfields Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Moorfields Highwalk, EC2Y

Moorfields, EC2Y Moorfields is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Moorfields, EC2Y

Moorgate Hall, EC2M Moorgate Hall is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

Moorgate Hall, EC2M

Moorgate Place, EC2R Moorgate Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Moorgate Place, EC2R

Moorgate, EC2M Moorgate is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

Moorgate, EC2M

Moorgate, EC2R Moorgate is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Moorgate, EC2R

New Change, EC2V A street within the EC2V postcode

New Change, EC2V

New Union Street, EC2Y New Union Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

New Union Street, EC2Y

Newbury Street, EC1A Newbury Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Newbury Street, EC1A

Newgate Street, EC1A Newgate Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Newgate Street, EC1A

Newgate Street, EC2V Newgate Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Newgate Street, EC2V

Noble Street, EC2V Noble Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Noble Street, EC2V

Oat Lane, EC2V Oat Lane has been marked on London maps since 1600 and before.

Oat Lane, EC2V

Old Broad Street, EC2N This is a street in the EC2R postcode area

Old Broad Street, EC2N

Old Jewry, EC2R Old Jewry is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Old Jewry, EC2R

One Ropemaker Street, EC2Y One Ropemaker Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

One Ropemaker Street, EC2Y

Paternoster Row, EC4M Paternoster Row is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Paternoster Row, EC4M

Paternoster Square, EC4M Paternoster Square is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Paternoster Square, EC4M

Pickax Street, EC2Y Pickax Street once ran from Long Lane to Goswell Road (which before 1864 was called Goswell Street).

Pickax Street, EC2Y

Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block

Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M

Priest’s Court, EC2V Priest?s Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Priest’s Court, EC2V

Primrose Street, EC2A Primrose Street is a location in London.

Primrose Street, EC2A

Princes Street, EC2R Princes Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Princes Street, EC2R

Queen Isabella Way, EC1A Queen Isabella Way is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Queen Isabella Way, EC1A

Roman House, EC2Y Roman House is a location in London.

Roman House, EC2Y

Ropemaker Street, EC2M Ropemaker Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Ropemaker Street, EC2M

Rose Street, EC4M Rose Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Rose Street, EC4M

Russia Row, EC2V Russia Row is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Russia Row, EC2V

Salisbury House, EC2M Residential block

Salisbury House, EC2M

Seddon Highwalk, EC2Y Seddon Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Seddon Highwalk, EC2Y

Silk Street, EC2Y Silk Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Silk Street, EC2Y

South Place, EC2M South Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

South Place, EC2M

St Alphage Highwalk, EC2V St Alphage Highwalk is part of the Barbican.

St Alphage Highwalk, EC2V

St Ann’s Lane, EC2V St Ann’s Lane was the name for the west end of Gresham Street until the 1860s.

St Ann’s Lane, EC2V

St Martin’s Le Grand, EC2V St Martin’s Le Grand is a street north of Newgate Street and a former liberty within the City of London

St Martin’s Le Grand, EC2V

St. Giles Terrace, EC2Y St Giles Terrace lies alongside St Giles Cripplegate church.

St. Giles Terrace, EC2Y

Stock Exchange Building, EC2N Stock Exchange Building is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.

Stock Exchange Building, EC2N

Telegraph Street, EC2R Telegraph Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Telegraph Street, EC2R

The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block

The Charterhouse, EC1M

The Postern, EC2Y The Postern is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

The Postern, EC2Y

The Sutton Estate, EC1Y The Sutton Estate is a road in the N1 postcode area

The Sutton Estate, EC1Y

Thomas More Highwalk, EC2Y Thomas More Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Thomas More Highwalk, EC2Y

Three Nun Court, EC2V Three Nun Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Three Nun Court, EC2V

Throgmorton Avenue, EC2N Throgmorton Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.

Throgmorton Avenue, EC2N

Throgmorton Street, EC3V The name of Throgmorton Street is a corruption of the name of Nicholas Throckmorton, Elizabeth I’s ambassador to France and Scotland.

Throgmorton Street, EC3V

Tokenhouse Yard, EC2R Tokenhouse Yard marked the site of the manufacturer of tokens that were used as the copper coinage of England before the reign of James I.

Tokenhouse Yard, EC2R

Wallside, EC2Y Wallside is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Wallside, EC2Y

Warnford Court, EC2N Warnford Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.

Warnford Court, EC2N

Warwick Lane, EC1A Warwick Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Warwick Lane, EC1A

Willoughby Highwalk, EC2Y Willoughby Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Willoughby Highwalk, EC2Y

Wilson Street, EC2A Wilson Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Wilson Street, EC2A

Wilson Street, EC2M Wilson Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

Wilson Street, EC2M

Wood Street, EC2V Wood Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Wood Street, EC2V

Wood Street, EC2Y Wood Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Wood Street, EC2Y

NEARBY PUBS

All Bar One Moorgate This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

All Bar One Moorgate

Amber Bar This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Amber Bar

Balls Brothers Austin Friars This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Balls Brothers Austin Friars

Balls Brothers Ltd This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Balls Brothers Ltd

Be At One This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Be At One

Bottlescrue This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Bottlescrue

Browns This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Browns

Charterhouse Bar This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Charterhouse Bar

Circle Bar, Level 0 This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Circle Bar, Level 0

City Golf & Health Clubs This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

City Golf & Health Clubs

Club Gascon This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Club Gascon

Corney & Barrow This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Corney & Barrow

Corney & Barrow, Unit 3, Stock Exch This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Corney & Barrow, Unit 3, Stock Exch

Davy’s This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Davy’s

Dirty Martini This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Dirty Martini

Enoteca This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Enoteca

Enoteca Rabezzana This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Enoteca Rabezzana

Fox Fine Wines This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Fox Fine Wines

Goodman City Ltd This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Goodman City Ltd

Hand & Shears This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Hand & Shears

Harry’s Bar This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Harry’s Bar

Jamies This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Jamies

La Tasca This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

La Tasca

Le Paris Grill This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Le Paris Grill

Old Dick Whittington The Dick Whittington Inn at 24 Cloth Fair was a sixteenth century building and once part of a row of medieval buildings lining the street.

Old Dick Whittington

Old Doctor Butler’s Head This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Old Doctor Butler’s Head

Old Red Cow This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Old Red Cow

Piano Smithfield This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Piano Smithfield

Searcy’s Champagne Bar This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Searcy’s Champagne Bar

Searcys Bars @ GSM & D This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Searcys Bars @ GSM & D

Slug and Lettuce This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Slug and Lettuce

Sutton Arms This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Sutton Arms

The Anthologist This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Anthologist

The Arbitrager This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Arbitrager

The Butcher’s Hook and Cleaver This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Butcher’s Hook and Cleaver

The Fleetwood This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Fleetwood

The Flying Horse This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Flying Horse

The Gable This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Gable

The Globe This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Globe

The Jugged Hare This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Jugged Hare

The Lord Raglan This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Lord Raglan

The Paternoster This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Paternoster

The Rack & Tenter This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Rack & Tenter

The Red Lion This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Red Lion

The Rising Sun This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Rising Sun

The Saint This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Saint

The Telegraph This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Telegraph

The Tokenhouse The Tokenhouse is named for the nearby manufacturer of tokens that were used as the copper coinage of England before the 1680s.

The Tokenhouse

Wood Street Bar and Restaurant This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Wood Street Bar and Restaurant

Queen’s Park

Queen’s Park lies between Kilburn and Kensal Green, developed from 1875 onwards and named to honour Queen Victoria.

The north of Queen’s Park formed part of the parish of Willesden and the southern section formed an exclave of the parish of Chelsea, both in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex. In 1889 the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works that included the southern section of Queen’s Park was transferred from Middlesex to the County of London, and in 1900 the anomaly of being administered from Chelsea was removed when the exclave was united with the parish of Paddington. In 1965 both parts of Queen’s Park became part of Greater London: the northern section - Queen’s Park ’proper’ formed part of Brent and the southern section - the Queen’s Park Estate - joined the City of Westminster.

Queen’s Park, like much of Kilburn, was developed by Solomon Barnett. The two-storey terraced houses east of the park, built between 1895 and 1900, typically have clean, classical lines. Those west of the park, built 1900–05, tend to be more Gothic in style. Barnett’s wife was from the West Country, and many of the roads he developed are named either for places she knew (e.g. Torbay, Tiverton, Honiton) or for popular poets of the time (e.g. Tennyson). The first occupants of the area in late Victorian times were typically lower middle class, such as clerks and teachers. Queen’s Park is both demographically and architecturally diverse. The streets around the park at the heart of Queen’s Park are a conservation area.

There is hardly any social housing in the streets around Queens Park itself, and the area was zoned as not suitable for social housing in the 1970s and 1980s as even then house prices were above average for the borough of Brent, which made them unaffordable for local Housing Associations. The main shopping streets of Salusbury Road and Chamberlayne Road have fewer convenience stores and more high-value shops and restaurants. Local schools – some of which struggled to attract the children of wealthier local families in the past – are now over-subscribed. House prices have risen accordingly.

Queen’s Park station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway on 2 June 1879 on the main line from London to Birmingham.

Services on the Bakerloo line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen’s Park on 11 February 1915. On 10 May 1915 Bakerloo services began to operate north of Queen’s Park as far as Willesden Junction over the recently built Watford DC Line tracks shared with the LNWR.

LOCAL PHOTOS

"Cheapside and Bow Church" engraved by W. Albutt, 1837 steel engraved print after a picture by T.H. Shepherd, first published in The History of London: Illustrated by Views in London and Westminster. Credit: W. Albutt TUM image id: 1507465321 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Georg Giese from Danzig, 34-year-old German merchant at the Steelyard, painted in London by Hans Holbein in 1532 Credit: Hans Holbein TUM image id: 1490827371 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Walbrook Wharf is an operating freight wharf located in the City of London adjacent to Cannon Street station. TUM image id: 1508582712 Licence: CC BY 2.0	St Lukes Hospital for Lunatics, London TUM image id: 1554045418 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The gravestone of English poet William Blake in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground Credit: https://careergappers.com/ TUM image id: 1622643378 Licence:
Tate Modern viewed from Thames pleasure boat (2003) Credit: Christine Matthews TUM image id: 1557161613 Licence: CC BY 2.0	"London Bridge from the Old Swan" by the Irish painter Hubert Pugh (1780) Shooting the tidal rapids at old London Bridge was dangerous; many passengers preferred to get off at the Old Swan, and walk. Immediately across the river in the painting is St Saviour’s Church, now Southwark Cathedral. Credit: Hubert Pugh (Bank of England Museum) TUM image id: 1623675815 Licence:	The ’Walkie-Talkie’ (20 Fenchurch Street in the City of London), photographed in 2015. Shortly before completion, the angled windows set fire to a couple of vehicles when they focused the rays of the sun downwards into nearby streets. This quirk had to be fixed. Credit: Wiki Commons/Colin TUM image id: 1606309032 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Adelaide House from above Credit: https://manchesterhistory.net/ TUM image id: 1601636552 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Amen Court, EC4M TUM image id: 1493474208 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The shoemaker was a 1907 London comedy drama, a play "full of tears and laughter." TUM image id: 1520778488 Licence: CC BY 2.0	View of Cloth Fair in 1884 showing the side entrance to St Bartholomew’s Priory, Smithfield. Credit: John Crowther TUM image id: 1622807402 Licence:	At the south end of Philpot Lane, at its junction with Eastcheap in the City, is 23 Eastcheap, built between 1861 and 1862, as offices and warehousing for the spice-merchants Messrs.’ Hunt and Crombie. A curious feature adorns its facade - a carving of two brown mice, each of which is engaged in a struggle to wrest a large chunk of cheese from the jaws of the other. Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1606306276 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Great Arthur House, at the centre of the Golden Lane Estate, was the tallest residential building in Britain at the time of its construction. Credit: Steve F/Wiki commons TUM image id: 1582223961 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Lombard Court EC3 TUM image id: 1530121496 Licence: CC BY 2.0