Ben Jonson House, EC2Y

Ben Jonson House is a block on Golden Lane.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

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
Christine D Elliott Spitalfields Added: 11 Jun 2023 14:50 GMT	Spitalfields Charles Blutte came to Spitalfields from Walincourt, Picardie, France for reason of religious persecution. His brother Pierre Phillippe Blutte followed the following year. Between the two brothers they had eventually 20 children, they worked as silk weavers around the Brick Lane area. Member’s of Pierre’s family resided at 40 Thomas Street for over 100 years. Another residence associated with the Blutte family is Vine Court, Lamb Street, Spitalfields, number 16,17 & 18 Vine Court was owned by John Kindon, the father in law of Charles Blutte’s son Jean (John) who married Ann Kindon. This residence appears several times in the census records. Source: Quarto_52_Vol_LII_La_Providence Reply
Katharina Logan Ely Place, N1 Added: 9 Aug 2022 19:01 GMT	Ely place existed in name in 1857 On 7th July 1857 John James Chase and Mary Ann Weekes were married at St John the Baptist Hoxton, he of full age and she a minor. Both parties list their place of residence as Ely Place, yet according to other information, this street was not named until 1861. He was a bricklayer, she had no occupation listed, but both were literate and able to sign their names on their marriage certificate. Source: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSF7-Q9Y7?cc=3734475 Reply
Sandra Field Masons Place, EC1V Added: 15 Apr 2023 16:15 GMT	Removal Order Removal order from Shoreditch to Holborn, Jane Emma Hall, Single, 21 Pregnant. Born about 21 years since in Masons place in the parish of St Lukes. Source: Sign up 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
Bernard Miller Windsor Terrace, N1 Added: 12 Apr 2022 17:36 GMT	My mother and her sister were born at 9 Windsor Terrace My mother, Millie Haring (later Miller) and her sister Yetta Haring (later Freedman) were born here in 1922 and 1923. With their parents and older brother and sister, they lived in two rooms until they moved to Stoke Newington in 1929. She always said there were six rooms, six families, a shared sink on the first floor landing and a toilet in the backyard. Reply
jack stevens Whites Row, E1 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, Reply
Old Nichol Street, E2 Added: 6 Nov 2021 15:03 GMT	Old Nichol Street, E2 Information about my grandfather’s tobacconist shop Reply
Admin Tower Bridge, SE1 Added: 26 Aug 2022 15:19 GMT	Bus makes a leap A number 78 double-decker bus driven by Albert Gunter was forced to jump an accidentally opening Tower Bridge. He was awarded a £10 bonus. 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
Mike Elia Street, N1 Added: 28 Feb 2023 18:09 GMT	6 Elia Street When I was young I lived in 6 Elia Street. At the end of the garden there was a garage owned by Initial Laundries which ran from an access in Quick Street all the way up to the back of our garden. The fire exit to the garage was a window leading into our garden. 6 Elia Street was owned by Initial Laundry. 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
Martin Eaton Shoreditch Added: 14 Oct 2021 03:56 GMT	Boundary Estate Sunbury, Taplow House. Reply
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
Tom Blackfriars Added: 21 May 2021 23:07 GMT	Blackfriars What is, or was, Bodies Bridge? Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Peter Gambia Street, SE1 Added: 4 Dec 2023 07:05 GMT	Gambia Street, SE1 Gambia Street was previously known as William Street. Reply
Eileen Brecknock Road, N7 Added: 10 Nov 2023 09:42 GMT	Brecknock Road Pleating Company My great grandparents ran the Brecknock Road pleating Company around 1910 to 1920 and my Grandmother worked there as a pleater until she was 16. I should like to know more about this. I know they had a beautiful Victorian house in Islington as I have photos of it & of them in their garden. Source: Family history Reply
Squirrel’s Lane, IG9 Added: 6 Nov 2023 16:59 GMT	061123 Why do Thames Water not collect the 15 . Three meter lengths of blue plastic fencing, and old pipes etc. They left here for the last TWO Years, these cause an obstruction,as they halfway lying in the road,as no footpath down this road, and the cars going and exiting the park are getting damaged, also the public are in Grave Danger when trying to avoid your rubbish and the danger of your fences. Source: Squirrels Lane. Buckhurst Hill, Essex. IG9. I want some action ,now, not Excuses.MK. Reply
Christian Cornwall Road, W11 Added: 31 Oct 2023 10:34 GMT	Cornwall Road, W11 Photo shows William Richard Hoare’s chemist shop at 121 Cornwall Road. Reply
Vik Oaks Road, TW6 Added: 30 Oct 2023 18:48 GMT	Old pub sign from the Rising Sun Hi I have no connection to the area except that for the last 30+ years we’ve had an old pub sign hanging on our kitchen wall from the Rising Sun, Stanwell, which I believe was / is on the Oaks Rd. Happy to upload a photo if anyone can tell me how or where to do that! Reply
Phillip Martin Ashburnham Place, SE10 Added: 16 Oct 2023 06:25 GMT	16 Ashburnham Road On 15 October 1874 George Frederick Martin was born in 16 Ashburnham Road Greenwich to George Henry Martin, a painter, and Mary Martin, formerly Southern. Reply
Christine Bithrey Holly Park, N4 Added: 15 Oct 2023 15:20 GMT	The Hollies (1860 - 1900) I lived in Holly Park Estate from 1969 I was 8 years old when we moved in until I left to get married, my mother still lives there now 84. I am wondering if there was ever a cemetery within The Hollies? And if so where? Was it near to the Blythwood Road end or much nearer to the old Methodist Church which is still standing although rather old looking. We spent most of our childhood playing along the old dis-used railway that run directly along Blythwood Road and opposite Holly Park Estate - top end which is where we live/ed. We now walk my mothers dog there twice a day. An elderly gentleman once told me when I was a child that there used to be a cemetery but I am not sure if he was trying to scare us children! I only thought about this recently when walking past the old Methodist Church and seeing the flag stone in the side of the wall with the inscription of when it was built late 1880 If anyone has any answers please email me [email protected] Reply
Chris hutchison Broadhurst Gardens, NW6 Added: 15 Oct 2023 03:04 GMT	35 broadhurst gardens. 35 Broadhurst gardens was owned by famous opera singer Mr Herman “Simmy”Simberg. He had transformed it into a film and recording complex. There was a film and animation studio on the ground floor. The recording facilities were on the next two floors. I arrived in London from Australia in 1966 and worked in the studio as the tea boy and trainee recording engineer from Christmas 1966 for one year. The facility was leased by an American advertising company called Moreno Films. Mr Simbergs company Vox Humana used the studio for their own projects as well. I worked for both of them. I was so lucky. The manager was another wonderful gentleman called Jack Price who went on to create numerous songs for many famous singers of the day and also assisted the careers of Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. “Simmy” let me live in the bedsit,upper right hand window. Jack was also busy with projects with The Troggs,Bill Wyman,Peter Frampton. We did some great sessions with Manfred Mann and Alan Price. The Cream did some demos but that was before my time. We did lots of voice over work. Warren Mitchell and Ronnie Corbett were favourites. I went back in 1978 and “Simmy “ had removed all of the studio and it was now his home. His lounge room was still our studio in my minds eye!! Reply

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Bunhill Fields Bunhill Fields was in use as a burial ground from 1665 until 1854.

Bunhill Fields

Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y The Golden Lane Housing Estate is a 1950s council housing complex in the City of London.

Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y

Hicks Hall Hicks Hall (1611 - 1778) was a building in St John Street, Clerkenwell.

Hicks Hall

Honourable Artillery Company Museum The Honourable Artillery Company Museum opened in 1987.

Honourable Artillery Company Museum

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

Wesley’s Chapel Wesley’s Chapel - originally the City Road Chapel - is a Methodist church built under the direction of John Wesley.

Wesley’s Chapel

Whitefield’s Tabernacle Whitefield’s Tabernacle is a former church at the corner of Tabernacle Street and Leonard Street.

Whitefield’s Tabernacle

NEARBY STREETS

Addle Street, EC2V Addle Street, there from ancient times, was a victim of the bulldozer after the Second World War.

Addle Street, EC2V

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

Alders Court, EC1Y Ball Court, EC1 was renamed as Alders Court, EC1 in 1936.

Alders Court, EC1Y

Aldersgate Street, EC1A Aldersgate Street is located on the west side of the Barbican Estate.

Aldersgate Street, EC1A

Alfred Close, EC2Y Alfred Close (Alfred’s Close) was a 1939 renaming of the former Alfred’s Place.

Alfred Close, EC2Y

Alleyn House, EC1Y Alleyn House is a block on Chequer Street.

Alleyn House, EC1Y

Alphabeta Building, EC2A Alphabeta Building is sited on Worship Street.

Alphabeta Building, EC2A

Alto House, EC1A Alto House is located on Newbury Street.

Alto House, EC1A

Amias House, EC1V Amias House is a building on Central Street.

Amias House, EC1V

Amias Place, EC1Y Amias Place was formerly George Yard.

Amias Place, EC1Y

Anchor House, EC1V Anchor House is located on Old Street.

Anchor House, EC1V

Anchor Yard, EC1Y Anchor Yard is named after a former inn here of this name.

Anchor Yard, EC1Y

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 Andrewes House is a block on Fore Street.

Andrewes House, EC2Y

Baltic Street East, EC1Y Baltic Street East was built by a timber merchant around 1810 who named local streets after trade-related activities.

Baltic Street East, EC1Y

Baltic Street West, EC1Y Baltic Street is split into east and west halves.

Baltic Street West, EC1Y

Banner House, EC1Y Banner House is a block on Banner Street.

Banner House, EC1Y

Banner Street, EC1Y Banner Street was named after the Banner family, late 18th century landowners in the area.

Banner Street, EC1Y

Barbican Court, EC1A Barbican Court was bombed during the Second World War.

Barbican Court, EC1A

Barbican, EC2Y Before becoming part of Beech Street, a road called Barbican had its own presence.

Barbican, EC2Y

Baroda House, EC1Y Baroda House is located on City Road.

Baroda House, EC1Y

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

Bartholomew Close, EC1A

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

Basterfield House, EC1Y Basterfield House is located on Unnamed Road.

Basterfield House, EC1Y

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

Bastion Highwalk, EC2Y

Bastwick Street, EC1V Bastwick Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Bastwick Street, EC1V

Beech Street, EC2Y Beech Street is the western extension of Chiswell Street.

Beech Street, EC2Y

Ben Jonson House, EC1Y Ben Jonson House is sited on Golden Lane.

Ben Jonson House, EC1Y

Berry Street, EC1M Berry Place and Berry Street were named after Thomas Berry, local early 19th century landowner.

Berry Street, EC1M

Blake Tower, EC2Y Blake Tower is located on Fann Street.

Blake Tower, EC2Y

Boundary House, EC1M Boundary House is a block on Charterhouse Street.

Boundary House, EC1M

Bowater House, EC1Y Bowater House is sited on Fann Street.

Bowater House, EC1Y

Brackley Street, EC2Y Brackley Street was named after Viscount Brackley - the title given to the eldest sons of the Earl of Bridgewater who owned a townhouse on Bridgewater Square.

Brackley Street, EC2Y

Bradford Avenue, EC2Y Bradford Avenue was a street of warehouses.

Bradford Avenue, EC2Y

Braithwaite House, EC1Y Braithwaite House is a block on Bunhill Row.

Braithwaite House, EC1Y

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

Brandon Mews, EC2Y

Breton House, EC2Y Breton House is a block on Golden Lane.

Breton House, EC2Y

Bridgewater Square, EC1Y Bridgewater Square is an historic square near to the Barbican.

Bridgewater Square, EC1Y

Britannic House, EC2M Britannic House is a block on Finsbury Circus.

Britannic House, EC2M

Bryer Court, EC2Y Bryer Court is a block on Bridgewater Square

Bryer Court, EC2Y

Bunhill Fields, EC1Y Bunhill Fields is a road in the EC1Y postcode area

Bunhill Fields, EC1Y

Bunhill Row, EC1Y Bunhill Row is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Bunhill Row, EC1Y

Cap House, EC1A Cap House is a building on Long Lane.

Cap House, EC1A

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

Carthusian Street, EC1A

Central Markets, EC1A Central Markets is the address of traders within Smithfield Market.

Central Markets, EC1A

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

Charterhouse Buildings, 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

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

Chequer Street, EC1Y

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

Cherry Tree Walk, EC1Y

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

Chiswell Street, EC1Y

Churchyard Path, EC1A Churchyard Path runs up to the church of St Bartholomew.

Churchyard Path, EC1A

City Gate House, EC2A City Gate House is a block on Finsbury Square.

City Gate House, EC2A

City Place House, EC2V City Place House is a block on Basinghall Street.

City Place House, EC2V

City Road, EC1Y City Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

City Road, EC1Y

City Tower, EC2V City Tower is a block on Unnamed Road.

City Tower, EC2V

Clerkenwell Road, EC1M Clerkenwell Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Clerkenwell Road, EC1M

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

Coach & Horses Yard, EC1A Coach & Horses Yard lay behind the Coach & Horses pub at 71 Bartholomew Close.

Coach & Horses Yard, EC1A

Crescent House, EC1M Crescent House is sited on Goswell Road.

Crescent House, EC1M

Crescent Row, EC1Y Crescent Row is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Crescent Row, EC1Y

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

Cripplegate Street, EC1Y

Cromwell Tower, EC2Y Cromwell Tower is a block on Silk Street.

Cromwell Tower, EC2Y

Crown House, EC1M Crown House is a building on Goswell Road.

Crown House, EC1M

Crozier Court, EC1M Abbot’s Place, NW6

Crozier Court, EC1M

Cullum Welch House, EC1M Cullum Welch House is a block on Golden Lane.

Cullum Welch House, EC1M

Cuthbert Harrowing House, EC1Y Cuthbert Harrowing House is a block on Fann Street.

Cuthbert Harrowing House, EC1Y

Dallington Street, EC1V Dallington Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Dallington Street, EC1V

Defoe House, EC2Y Defoe House is a block on Beech Street.

Defoe House, EC2Y

Development House, EC2A Development House is a block on Leonard Street.

Development House, EC2A

Domingo Street, EC1Y Domingo Street links Old Street with Baltic Street East.

Domingo Street, EC1Y

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

Dominion Street, EC2M

Dufferin Avenue, EC1Y Dufferin Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Dufferin Avenue, EC1Y

Dufferin Street, EC1Y Dufferin Street runs between Bunhill Row and Whitecross Street.

Dufferin Street, EC1Y

Duke Street, EC1A Duke Street ran off Smithfield, becoming part of Little Britain in 1885.

Duke Street, EC1A

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

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

Errol Street, EC1Y

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

Fann Street, EC1Y

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

Featherstone Street, EC1Y

Ferroners House, EC2Y Ferroners House

Ferroners House, EC2Y

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 House, EC2M Finsbury Circus House is a block on Eldon Street.

Finsbury Circus House, 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, EC1A Florin Court is a classic Art Deco building in Clerkenwell.

Florin Court, EC1A

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

Fortune House, EC1Y Fortune House is a block on Fortune Street.

Fortune House, EC1Y

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

Fortune Street, EC1Y

Galileo Apartments, EC1Y Galileo Apartments is a block on Featherstone Street.

Galileo Apartments, EC1Y

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

Garrett Street, EC1Y

Gee Street, EC1V Gee Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Gee Street, EC1V

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

Gilbert Bridge, EC2Y

Gilbert House, EC2Y Gilbert House is a block on Gilbert Bridge.

Gilbert House, EC2Y

Giltspur House, EC1A Giltspur House is a block on Giltspur Street.

Giltspur House, EC1A

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

Glasshouse Yard, EC2Y

Glyn House, EC1Y Glyn House is a block on City Road.

Glyn House, EC1Y

Golden Lane, EC1Y Golden Lane connects Old Street and Beech Street.

Golden Lane, EC1Y

Goswell Road, EC1Y Goswell Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Goswell Road, EC1Y

Grand Avenue, EC1A Grand Avenue runs through the centre of Smithfield Market.

Grand Avenue, EC1A

Great Arthur House, EC1Y Great Arthur House is a building on Fann Street.

Great Arthur House, EC1Y

Great Sutton Street, EC1M Great Sutton Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Great Sutton Street, EC1M

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

Half Moon Court, EC1A

Harella House, EC1V Harella House is a building on Goswell Road.

Harella House, EC1V

Hatfield House, EC1M Hatfield House is a block on Baltic Street West.

Hatfield House, EC1M

Hatfield House, EC1Y Hatfield House is a block on Baltic Street West.

Hatfield House, EC1Y

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

Hayne Street, EC1A

Honduras Street, EC1Y Honduras Street dates from the 1810s.

Honduras Street, EC1Y

Invicta House, EC1Y Invicta House is a block on Banner Street.

Invicta House, EC1Y

Italia Conti House, EC1M Italia Conti House can be found on Goswell Road.

Italia Conti House, EC1M

Jewin Crescent Jewin Crescent - as The Crescent - existed from the end of the eighteenth century.

Jewin Crescent

Jewin Street, EC2Y Jewin Street

Jewin Street, EC2Y

Joseph Rotblat Building, EC1A Joseph Rotblat Building is a building on Glasshouse Yard.

Joseph Rotblat Building, EC1A

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

Kinghorn Street, EC1A

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

Lexington Apartments, EC1Y Lexington Apartments is a block on City Road.

Lexington Apartments, EC1Y

Lindsey House, EC1M Lindsey House can be found on Charterhouse Street.

Lindsey House, EC1M

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 a street in the City of London running from St Martin’s Le Grand in the east to West Smithfield.

Little Britain, EC1A

London Wall, EC2Y London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y 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

Longbow House, EC1Y Longbow House is a block on Chiswell Street.

Longbow House, EC1Y

Longbow House, EC2A Longbow House is a block on Chiswell Street.

Longbow House, EC2A

Lowndes House, EC1Y Lowndes House is located on City Road.

Lowndes House, EC1Y

Marylebone House, EC1M Marylebone House is a block on St John Street.

Marylebone House, EC1M

Memel Street, EC1Y Memel Street was built over the site of a former brewery in the 1810s.

Memel Street, EC1Y

Michael House, EC1Y Michael House is a block on Chiswell Street.

Michael House, EC1Y

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

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

Monkwell House, EC2Y Monkwell House is a building on Barbican Highwalk.

Monkwell House, EC2Y

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

Monkwell Square, EC2Y

Monmouth House, EC1Y Monmouth House is a block on City Road.

Monmouth House, EC1Y

Moor House, EC2Y Moor House is a block on Fore Street Avenue.

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

Moorgate, EC2M

Mountjoy House, EC2Y Mountjoy House is a building on Monkwell Square.

Mountjoy House, EC2Y

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

Northburgh House, EC1V Northburgh House is a building on Northburgh Street.

Northburgh House, EC1V

Northburgh Street, EC1M Northburgh Street in the EC1V postcode is a western extension of the main part of the street.

Northburgh Street, EC1M

Oliver’s Yard, EC2A Oliver’s Yard is a road in the EC2A postcode area

Oliver’s Yard, EC2A

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

One Ropemaker Street, EC2Y

Parchment House, EC1V Parchment House is located on Northburgh Street.

Parchment House, EC1V

Pardon Street, EC1V Pardon Street was named after Pardon Chapel, founded in the wake of the Black Death in 1348.

Pardon Street, EC1V

Peabody Tower, EC1Y Peabody Tower is a block on Golden Lane.

Peabody Tower, EC1Y

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

Pickax Street, EC2Y

Plough Court, EC2Y Plough Court was renamed as part of Barbican in 1939.

Plough Court, EC2Y

Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block

Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M

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

Primrose Street, EC2A

Quaker Court, EC1Y Quaker Court is a block on Banner Street

Quaker Court, EC1Y

Red Cross Street, EC2Y Red Cross Street once ran to the junction of Beech Street and Golden Lane.

Red Cross Street, EC2Y

River Plate House, EC2M River Plate House is a block on Finsbury Circus.

River Plate House, EC2M

Roman House, EC2Y Roman House is a building on St Alphage Garden.

Roman House, EC2Y

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

Ropemaker Street, EC2M

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

Roscoe Street, EC1Y

Salisbury House, EC2M Salisbury House can be found on London Wall.

Salisbury House, EC2M

Saunderson House, EC1A Saunderson House is a block on Long Lane.

Saunderson House, EC1A

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

Seddon Highwalk, EC2Y

Seddon House, EC2Y Seddon House is a block on Aldersgate Street.

Seddon House, EC2Y

Shakespeare Tower, EC2Y Shakespeare Tower can be found on Beech Street.

Shakespeare Tower, EC2Y

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

Silk Street, EC2Y

Silver Street, EC2V Silver Street was the location of a house in which William Shakespeare lived during his time in London.

Silver Street, EC2V

Smokehouse Yard, EC1M Smokehouse Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Smokehouse Yard, EC1M

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

South Place, EC2M

Speed House, EC2Y Speed House is a block on Speed Highwalk.

Speed House, EC2Y

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

St Alphage Garden, EC2Y

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

St Alphage Highwalk, EC2V

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

St Giles Terrace, EC2Y

St Mary’s Tower, EC1Y St Mary’s Tower is a block on Fortune Street.

St Mary’s Tower, EC1Y

Stanley Cohen House, EC1Y Stanley Cohen House is a block on Golden Lane.

Stanley Cohen House, EC1Y

Sutton Lane, EC1M Sutton Lane is a road in the EC1M postcode area

Sutton Lane, EC1M

Sutton Road, EC1M Sutton Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Sutton Road, EC1M

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

Sycamore Street, EC1Y

Templeton House, EC1Y Templeton House is a block on Chiswell Street.

Templeton House, EC1Y

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

Therese House, EC1M Therese House is a block on Glasshouse Yard.

Therese House, EC1M

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

Thomas More Highwalk, EC2Y

Thomas More House, EC2Y Thomas More House is a block on Shaftesbury Place.

Thomas More House, EC2Y

Timber Street, EC1Y Timber Street was formerly called Norway Street.

Timber Street, EC1Y

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

Wallside, EC2Y

Warwick Yard, EC1Y Warwick Yard is a road in the EC1Y postcode area

Warwick Yard, EC1Y

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

Whitecross Street, EC1Y

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

Willoughby Highwalk, EC2Y

Willoughby House, EC2Y Willoughby House is a building on Willoughby Highwalk.

Willoughby House, EC2Y

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

Wilson Street, EC2M

Wood Street, EC2Y The northern section Wood Street lies between London Wall and the Barbican.

Wood Street, EC2Y

Young’s Buildings, EC1Y Young’s Buildings was named after Francis Young, a local 18th century property owner

Young’s Buildings, EC1Y

NEARBY PUBS

Coach & Horses The Coach & Horses was situated at 71 Bartholomew Close in Smithfield.

Coach & Horses

Fox Fine Wines

Hand & Shears

Hat and Feathers At the corner of Clerkenwell Road and Goswell Road sits the Hat and Feathers pub.

Hat and Feathers

Honourable Artillery Company

Jamies

Le Paris Grill

McQueen

Nomad Club

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.

Searcys Bars @ GSM & D

Singer

Sutton Arms

The Angel

The Butcher’s Hook and Cleaver

Wood Street Bar and Restaurant

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Barbican

The Barbican is a residential estate built during the 1960s and the 1970s in the City of London.

During World War II, the City suffered serious damage and loss of life. The Cripplegate ward was virtually demolished and by 1951 the resident population of the City stood at 5,324 of whom 48 lived in Cripplegate. Discussions began in 1952 about the future of the site, and the decision to build new residential properties was taken by the Court of Common Council on 19 September 1957.

The estate was built between 1965 and 1976, on a 35-acre site that had been bombed in World War II. The complex was designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, whose first work was the ground-breaking Golden Lane Estate immediately north of the Barbican. The estate of 40 acres was officially opened in 1969 and is now home to around 4000 people living in 2014 flats. The flats reflect the widespread use in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s of concrete as the visible face of the building.

It contains, or is adjacent to, the Barbican Arts Centre, the Museum of London, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Barbican public library and the City of London School for Girls, forming the Barbican Complex. The complex is a prominent example of British brutalist architecture and is Grade II listed as a whole with the exception of the former Milton Court. Milton Court once contained a fire station, medical facilities and some flats and was demolished to allow the construction of a new apartment complex which also contains additional facilities for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

The residential estate consists of 13 terrace blocks, grouped around a lake and green squares. The main buildings rise up to seven floors above a podium level, which links all the facilities in the Barbican, providing a pedestrian route above street level. Some maisonettes are built into the podium structure. There is no vehicular access within the estate, but there are some car parks at the periphery of the estate. Public car parks are located within the Barbican Centre.

What is now Barbican station was opened by the Metropolitan Railway in December 1865 when they extended their original route between Paddington and Farringdon.

The station was first called Aldersgate Street, this being the name of the street on which it stands. This changed to Aldersgate on 1 November 1910, then to Aldersgate and Barbican in 1923, and to the present name from 1 December 1968.

The station replaced an earlier building at 134 Aldersgate Street, which for many years had a sign claiming ’This was Shakespeare’s House’. Although the building was very close to the nearby Fortune Playhouse, there is no documentary evidence that Shakespeare lived here; a subsidy roll from 1598 shows a William Shakespeare as owner of the property, but there is nothing to indicate that it is the playwright.

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Bank station Credit: IG/steven.maddison TUM image id: 1653840363 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Smithfield Market TUM image id: 1620388545 Licence:	"Cheapside and Bow Church" engraved by W. Albutt (1837) First published in The History of London: Illustrated by Views in London and Westminster. Steel engraved print after a picture by T.H. Shepherd. Credit: W. Albutt TUM image id: 1507465321 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:
Saint John’s Gate, Clerkenwell, the main gateway to the Priory of Saint John of Jerusalem. The church was founded in the 12th century by Jordan de Briset, a Norman knight. Prior Docwra completed the gatehouse shown in this photograph in 1504. The gateway served as the main entry to the Priory, which was the center of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitallers). Credit: Henry Dixon (1880) TUM image id: 1557226611 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Church of All Hallows Lombard Street as seen from Ball Alley in the 1820s. All Hallows was a rare City of London church not demolished due to the Great Fire or the Blitz but to falling attendances. Taken from ’The Churches of London’ by George Godwin (1839) Credit: Robert William Billings and John Le Keux TUM image id: 1627642469 Licence:	At the corner of Clerkenwell Road and Goswell Road sits the Hat and Feathers. It was built on the site of an earlier tavern around 1860 for owner James Leask. It was designed by William Finch Hill who specialised in music halls and pubs. Credit: Ewan Munro TUM image id: 1637770947 Licence:	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:
View of Cloth Fair in 1884 showing the side entrance to St Bartholomew’s Priory, Smithfield. Credit: John Crowther TUM image id: 1622807402 Licence:	Florin Court, Charterhouse Square (2008) The building was used as Whitehaven Mansions, the fictional London residence of Agatha Christie’s character Hercule Poirot, in the LWT television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989–2013) Credit: Flickr/conrad1967/ TUM image id: 1682517671 Licence:	No 37 Cheapside on the corner of Friday Street (c.1880) The ’Society for Photographing Relics of Old London’ was formed when the Oxford Arms - a traditional galleried pub - was about to be pulled down as part of the new Old Bailey development in 1875. The society subsequently campaigned to record disappearing sights, hurriedly commissioning photographs to capture buildings for posterity. Between 1875 and 1886 they produced photographic records of further buildings under threat, which were issued with descriptive text by the painter (and founder of the Society) Alfred Marks. The focus was architectural, not social; the photographs deliberately exclude signs, notices, people and traffic, to concentrate on the appearance of the bricks and mortar. Few of the streets in their images remain. This section of Friday Street was demolished after the Second World War. Credit: Society for Photographing Relics of Old London TUM image id: 1636543684 Licence:	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:	Lord Mayor’s Banquet at the Guildhall (1933) Credit: Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1684846824 Licence:

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St Lukes Hospital for Lunatics, London
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The gravestone of English poet William Blake in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
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At the corner of Clerkenwell Road and Goswell Road sits the Hat and Feathers. It was built on the site of an earlier tavern around 1860 for owner James Leask. It was designed by William Finch Hill who specialised in music halls and pubs.
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View of Cloth Fair in 1884 showing the side entrance to St Bartholomew’s Priory, Smithfield.
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Florin Court, Charterhouse Square (2008) The building was used as Whitehaven Mansions, the fictional London residence of Agatha Christie’s character Hercule Poirot, in the LWT television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989–2013)
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Great Arthur House, at the centre of the Golden Lane Estate, was the tallest residential building in Britain at the time of its construction.
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Lord Mayor’s Banquet at the Guildhall (1933)
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Jewin Street looking east toward Red Cross Street (1920) Tubbs & Son sign outside premises and their posters in the window. It is probably Number 38, sometime home of the City of London Photographic Stores (1901) and Belprex Ltd (1927) The Fire Station at the end was built after the 1897 fire. Unsurprisingly the street name derives from an ancient Jewish burial ground. Jewin Street was widened after the 1897 fire.
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Pardon Street
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“Jewin Crescent, London EC1” This 1940 drawing is by Roland Vivian Pitchforth - one of his works for the War Artists Advisory Committee and looks west along Jewin Crescent.
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