Cobham House, EC4V

Cobham House is a block on Black Friars Lane.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

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
Scott Hatton Blackmoor Street, WC2B Added: 11 Sep 2020 19:47 GMT	Millions Of Rats In Busy London The Daily Mail on 14 April 1903 reported "MILLIONS OF RATS IN BUSY LONDON" A rat plague, unprecedented in the annals of London, has broken out on the north side of the Strand. The streets principally infested are Catherine street, Drury lane, Blackmore street, Clare Market and Russell street. Something akin to a reign of terror prevails among the inhabitants after nightfall. Women refuse to pass along Blackmore street and the lower parts of Stanhope street after dusk, for droves of rats perambulate the roadways and pavements, and may be seen running along the window ledges of the empty houses awaiting demolition by the County Council in the Strand to Holborn improvement scheme. The rats, indeed, have appeared in almost-incredible numbers. "There are millions of them," said one shopkeeper, and his statement was supported by other residents. The unwelcome visitors have been evicted from their old haunts by the County Council housebreakers, and are now busily in search of new homes. The Gaiety Restaurant has been the greatest sufferer. Rats have invaded the premises in such force that the managers have had to close the large dining room on the first floor and the grill rooms on the ground floor and in the basement. Those three spacious halls which have witnessed many as semblages of theatre-goers are now qui:e deserted. Behind the wainscot of the bandstand in the grillroom is a large mound of linen shreds. This represents 1728 serviettes carried theee by the rats. In the bar the removal of a panel disclosed the astonishing fact that the rats have dragged for a distance of seven or eight yards some thirty or forty beer and wine bottles and stacked them in such a fashion as to make comfortable sleeping places. Mr Williams. the manager of the restaurant, estimates that the rats have destroyed L200 worth of linen. Formerly the Gaiety Restaurant dined 2000 persons daily; no business whatever is now done in this direction. Reply
Bruce McTavish Lambeth North Added: 11 Mar 2021 11:37 GMT	Kennington Road Lambeth North station was opened as Kennington Road and then Westminster Bridge Road before settling on its final name. It has a wonderful Leslie Green design. 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
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
Tom Blackfriars Added: 21 May 2021 23:07 GMT	Blackfriars What is, or was, Bodies Bridge? Reply
Talbot Yard, SE1 Added: 27 Jul 2021 14:31 GMT	correction Chaucer did not write Pilgrims Progress. His stories were called the Canterbury Tales Reply
sam Burdett Street, SE1 Added: 31 Dec 2021 00:54 GMT	Burdett Street, SE1 I was on 2nd July 1952, in Burdett chambers (which is also known as Burdett buildings)on Burdett street Reply
All bar one Added: 3 Jun 2021 15:50 GMT	All Bar One The capitalisation is wrong Reply
Erin Windsor Terrace, N1 Added: 2 May 2022 01:33 GMT	Windsor Terrace, N1 hello Reply
J Parker Windsor Terrace, N1 Added: 14 May 2023 15:27 GMT	Windsor Terrace, N1 Thank you for the information - My great grandparents lived at 11 Windsor Terrace from around 1918 to 1938... I was just trying to establish the kind of house it might have been as there are so many people listed at the same address so really interesting to see your description. Reply
John Dean’s Court, EC4M Added: 29 Mar 2023 17:31 GMT	Auction of the paper stock of Janssen and Roberts A broadside advertisement reads: "By auction, to be sold on Thursday next being the 16th of this present July, the remainder of the stock in partnership between Janssen and Roberts, at their late dwelling-house in Dean’s Court, the south side of St. Pauls, consisting of Genoa papers according to the particulars underneath." The date in the ESTC record is purely speculative; July 16th was a Thursday in many years during the 18th century; 1750 is only one possibility. Extensive searching has found no other record of the partners or the auction. Source: ESTC - Search Results Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Sue Meyrick Road, SW11 Added: 24 Sep 2023 19:09 GMT	Meyrick Rd My family - Roe - lived in poverty at 158 Meyrick Rd in the 1920s, moving to 18 Lavender Terrace in 1935. They also lived in York Rd at one point. Alf, Nell (Ellen), plus children John, Ellen (Did), Gladys, Joyce & various lodgers. Alf worked for the railway (LMS). Reply
Michael Tyrrell Avenue, DA16 Added: 20 Sep 2023 21:10 GMT	Momentous Birth! I was born in the upstairs front room of 28 Tyrrell Avenue in August 1938. I was a breach birth and quite heavy ( poor Mum!). My parents moved to that end of terrace house from another rental in St Mary Cray where my three year older brother had been born in 1935. The estate was quite new in 1938 and all the properties were rented. My Father was a Postman. I grew up at no 28 all through WWII and later went to Little Dansington School Reply
Mike Levy Arbour Square, E1 Added: 19 Sep 2023 18:10 GMT	Bombing of Arbour Square in the Blitz On the night of September 7, 1940. Hyman Lubosky (age 35), his wife Fay (or Fanny)(age 32) and their son Martin (age 17 months) died at 11 Arbour Square. They are buried together in Rainham Jewish Cemetery. Their grave stones read: "Killed by enemy action" Reply
Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Alex Britton Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 10:43 GMT	Late opening The tracks through Roding Valley were opened on 1 May 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on its Woodford to Ilford line (the Fairlop Loop). But the station was not opened until 3 February 1936 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER, successor to the GER). Source: Roding Valley tube station - Wikipedia Reply
Kevin Pont Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:52 GMT	Shhh.... Roding Valley is the quietest tube station, each year transporting the same number of passengers as Waterloo does in one day. Reply
Kevin Pont Dollis Hill Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:47 GMT	The connection with Bletchley Park The code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill. Reply
Kevin Pont Hampstead Added: 29 Aug 2023 15:25 GMT	The deepest station At 58m below ground, Hampstead is as deep as Nelson’s Column is tall. Source: Hampstead tube station - Wikipedia Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

Alsatia Alsatia was the name given to an area lying north of the River Thames covered by the Whitefriars monastery.

Alsatia

Blackfriars Blackfriars station was opened on 30 May 1870, by the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR), now the District line.

Blackfriars

City Temple The City Temple is a Nonconformist church on Holborn Viaduct.

City Temple

City Thameslink City Thameslink is a central London railway station within the City of London, with entrances on Ludgate Hill and Holborn Viaduct.

City Thameslink

Fleet Market The Fleet Market was a market erected in 1736 on the newly culverted River Fleet.

Fleet Market

Mermaid Tavern The Mermaid Tavern was a notable tavern during the Elizabethan era.

Mermaid Tavern

St Augustine Watling Street St Augustine, Watling Street was an Anglican church which stood just to the east of St Paul’s Cathedral.

St Augustine Watling Street

St Gregory by St Paul’s St Gregory’s by St Paul’s was a parish church in the Castle Baynard ward of the City of London.

St Gregory by St Paul’s

St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street was a church in Castle Baynard ward of the City of London, located on the corner of Old Fish Street and Old Change, on land now covered by post-War development.

St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street

St Mary Mounthaw St Mary Mounthaw or Mounthaut was a parish church in Old Fish Street Hill.

St Mary Mounthaw

St Mary Somerset St. Mary Somerset was a church in the City of London first recorded in the twelfth century. Destroyed in the Great Fire, it was one of the 51 churches rebuilt by the office of Sir Christopher Wren.

St Mary Somerset

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 Queenhithe St. Michael Queenhithe was a church in the City of London located in what is now Upper Thames Street.

St Michael Queenhithe

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 Mildred, Bread Street The church of St Mildred, Bread Street, stood on the east side of Bread Street in the Bread Street Ward of the City of London.

St Mildred, Bread Street

St Nicholas Cole Abbey St. Nicholas Cole Abbey is a church in the City of London located on what is now Queen Victoria Street.

St Nicholas Cole Abbey

St Peter, Paul’s Wharf St Peter, Paul’s Wharf, was a parish church in the City of London.

St Peter, Paul’s Wharf

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

Thavie’s Inn Thavie’s Inn was a former Inn of Chancery, associated with Lincoln’s Inn, established at Holborn, near the site of the present side street and office block still known as Thavies Inn Buildings.

Thavie’s Inn

NEARBY STREETS

, EC4V Queensbridge House is located on Upper Thames Street.

, EC4V

Addle Hill, EC4V Addle Hill, formerly Addle Street, originally ran from Upper Thames Street from Carter Lane.

Addle Hill, EC4V

Alder Castle House, EC2V Alder Castle House can be found on Noble Street.

Alder Castle House, EC2V

Amen Corner, EC4M Originally called Amen Lane, this short path forms the approach road to Amen Court.

Amen Corner, EC4M

Amen Court, EC4M Many of the highways and byways around the precincts of St Paul’s Cathedral bear names which have ecclesiastical origins.

Amen Court, EC4M

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

Apothecary Street, EC4V Apothecary Street - the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries is nearby.

Apothecary Street, EC4V

Ashentree Court, EC4Y Ashentree Court was named after the ashen trees formerly located here at the Whitefriars’ monastery.

Ashentree Court, EC4Y

Ave Maria Lane, EC4M Ave Maria Lane is the southern extension of Warwick Lane, between Amen Corner and Ludgate Hill.

Ave Maria Lane, EC4M

Barnard’s Inn, EC4A Barnard’s Inn lies near Holborn Circus.

Barnard’s Inn, EC4A

Bartlett’s Buildings, EC4A Bartlett’s Buildings was the name of a street situated off of Holborn Circus

Bartlett’s Buildings, EC4A

Baynard House, EC4V Baynard House is a block on Queen Victoria Street.

Baynard House, EC4V

Bear Alley, EC4A Bear Alley is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Bear Alley, EC4A

Bishop’s Court, EC4M Bishop?s Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Bishop’s Court, EC4M

Black Friars Lane, EC4V Black Friars Lane was known as Water Lane until 1940.

Black Friars Lane, EC4V

Blackfriars Bridge, EC4V Blackfriars Bridge serves as a road and pedestrian bridge spanning the River Thames.

Blackfriars Bridge, EC4V

Blackfriars House, EC4V Blackfriars House is a block on New Bridge Street.

Blackfriars House, EC4V

Blackfriars Lane, EC4V Blackfriars Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Blackfriars Lane, EC4V

Blackfriars Underpass, EC4V Blackfriars Underpass is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Blackfriars Underpass, EC4V

Bolt Court, EC4A Bolt Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Bolt Court, EC4A

Bouverie House, EC4 Bouverie House is a block on Fleet Street.

Bouverie House, EC4

Bouverie House, EC4A Bouverie House is a block on Fleet Street.

Bouverie House, EC4A

Bouverie Street, EC4Y Bouverie Street is named for the Pleydell-Bouveries, Earls of Radnor, who were landowners in this area.

Bouverie Street, EC4Y

Bracken House, EC4M Bracken House is a block on Friday Street.

Bracken House, EC4M

Bread Street Hill, EC4V Bread Street Hill was the southern continuation of Bread Street, running between Old Fish Street and Thames Street.

Bread Street Hill, EC4V

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

Bread Street, EC4M

Breams Buildings, EC4A Breams Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Breams Buildings, EC4A

Brick Court, EC4Y Brick Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Brick Court, EC4Y

Bride Court, EC4Y Bride Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Bride Court, EC4Y

Bride Lane, EC4Y Bride Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Bride Lane, EC4Y

Bridewell Place, EC4V Bridewell Place is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Bridewell Place, EC4V

Bridge Walk, EC4V Bridge Walk is a road in the SE8 postcode area

Bridge Walk, EC4V

Broken Wharf House, EC4V Broken Wharf House is a block on Broken Wharf.

Broken Wharf House, EC4V

Broken Wharf, EC4V Broken Wharf is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Broken Wharf, EC4V

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

Burgon Street, EC4V Burgon Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Burgon Street, EC4V

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

Carey Lane, EC2V

Carmelite House, EC4Y Carmelite House is sited on Victoria Embankment.

Carmelite House, EC4Y

Carmelite Street, EC4Y Carmelite Street continues south from Whitefriars Street, which itself is just off Fleet Street.

Carmelite Street, EC4Y

Carter Lane, EC4V Carter Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Carter Lane, EC4V

Church Entry, EC4V Church Entry is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Church Entry, EC4V

Cliffords Inn Passage, EC4Y Cliffords Inn Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Cliffords Inn Passage, EC4Y

Cliffords Inn, EC4A Cliffords Inn is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Cliffords Inn, EC4A

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

Coldwatch House, EC1A

Crane Court, EC4Y Crane Court lay beside the Two Crane Inn Tavern.

Crane Court, EC4Y

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

Creed Court, EC4M

Creed Lane, EC4V Creed Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Creed Lane, EC4V

Crown Office Row, EC4Y Crown Office Row is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Crown Office Row, EC4Y

Daniel House, EC4A Daniel House is a block on Fleet Street.

Daniel House, EC4A

Deans Court, EC4V Deans Court is directly opposite the south west corner of St Paul’s Cathedral, on the south side of St Paul’s Churchyard.

Deans Court, EC4V

Dean’s Court, EC4M Dean’s Court was a small alley off Old Bailey, on maps between 1750 and 1950.

Dean’s Court, EC4M

Distaff Lane, EC4V Distaff Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Distaff Lane, EC4V

Doctor Johnsons Buildings, EC4Y Doctor Johnsons Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Doctor Johnsons Buildings, EC4Y

Dorset Rise, EC4Y Dorset Rise is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Dorset Rise, EC4Y

Dr Johnson’s House, EC4A Dr Johnson’s House is a block on Gough Square.

Dr Johnson’s House, EC4A

East Harding Street, EC4A This is a street in the EC4A postcode area

East Harding Street, EC4A

Elliot’s Court, EC4M Elliot’s Court is featured on maps from 1750 to 1950.

Elliot’s Court, EC4M

Falcon Court, EC4Y Falcon Court is a courtyard off the south side of Fleet Street between Chancery Lane and Fetter Lane.

Falcon Court, EC4Y

Faraday Building, EC4V Faraday Building is a building on New Bell Yard.

Faraday Building, EC4V

Farringdon Road, EC1A Farringdon Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Farringdon Road, EC1A

Farringdon Road, EC4V Farringdon Road is a road in the EC4A postcode area

Farringdon Road, EC4V

Farringdon Street, EC1A The building of Farringdon Street is considered one of the greatest urban engineering achievements of the 19th century.

Farringdon Street, EC1A

Farringdon Street, EC4M Farringdon Street was constructed over the Fleet river.

Farringdon Street, EC4M

Fetter Lane, EC4A Fetter Lane is corrupted from ’Fautre’ which was the name for a spear rest - spears were made close by.

Fetter Lane, EC4A

Fitz Eylwin House, EC1A Fitz Eylwin House is a block on Holborn Viaduct.

Fitz Eylwin House, EC1A

Fleet Place House, EC4M Fleet Place House is a building on Fleet Place.

Fleet Place House, EC4M

Fleet Place, EC4M Fleet Place is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Fleet Place, EC4M

Fleet Street, EC4A Fleet Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Fleet Street, EC4A

Fleetbank House, EC4Y Fleetbank House is located on Salisbury Square.

Fleetbank House, EC4Y

Fleur De Lis Court, EC4A Fleur De Lis Court was situated off Fetter Lane.

Fleur De Lis Court, EC4A

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

Foster Lane, EC2V

Francis Taylor Building, EC4Y Francis Taylor Building is a block on Kings Bench Walk.

Francis Taylor Building, EC4Y

Friday Street, EC4V Friday Street is a small street in the City of London.

Friday Street, EC4V

Genesis House, EC4V Genesis House is a building on Godliman Street.

Genesis House, EC4V

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

Giltspur House, EC1A

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

Giltspur Street, EC1A

Godliman Street, EC4M Godliman Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Godliman Street, EC4M

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

Goldsmith Street, EC2V

Gough Square, EC4A Gough Square is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Gough Square, EC4A

Great New Street, EC4A Great New Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Great New Street, EC4A

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

Groveland Court, EC4M

Gunpowder Square, EC4A Gunpowder Square is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Gunpowder Square, EC4A

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

Gutter Lane, EC2V

Hamilton House, EC4Y Hamilton House is a block on Temple Avenue.

Hamilton House, EC4Y

Hanging Sword Alley, EC4Y Hanging Sword Alley is an alley running between Whitefriars Street and Salisbury Square.

Hanging Sword Alley, EC4Y

Harcourt Buildings, EC4Y Harcourt Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Harcourt Buildings, EC4Y

Hare Court, EC4Y Hare Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Hare Court, EC4Y

Hare Place, EC4Y Hare Place is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Hare Place, EC4Y

Harmsworth House, EC4Y Harmsworth House lies near the Inner Temple

Harmsworth House, EC4Y

Harp House, EC4A Harp House is a block on Farringdon Street.

Harp House, EC4A

Hat and Mitre Court, EC4Y Hat and Mitre Court is a road in the EC1M postcode area

Hat and Mitre Court, EC4Y

High Timber Street, EC4V High Timber Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

High Timber Street, EC4V

Hill House, EC4A Hill House is sited on Little New Street.

Hill House, EC4A

Hind Court, EC4Y Hind Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Hind Court, EC4Y

Hood Court, EC4Y Hood Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Hood Court, EC4Y

Inner Temple Lane, EC4Y Inner Temple Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Inner Temple Lane, EC4Y

Ireland Yard, EC4V Ireland Yard is an alleyway leading off of Playhouse Yard.

Ireland Yard, EC4V

John Carpenter House, EC4Y John Carpenter House is a block on John Carpenter Street.

John Carpenter House, EC4Y

John Carpenter Street, EC4Y John Carpenter was town clerk of the City of London in the fifteenth century, and founder of the City of London School.

John Carpenter Street, EC4Y

Kildare House, EC4Y Kildare House can be found on Dorset Rise.

Kildare House, EC4Y

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’s Bench Walk Temple, EC4Y A street within the EC4Y postcode

King’s Bench Walk Temple, EC4Y

King’s Bench Walk, EC4Y King?s Bench Walk is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

King’s Bench Walk, EC4Y

Kings Bench Walk, EC4Y Kings Bench Walk is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Kings Bench Walk, EC4Y

Knightrider Court, EC4V Knightrider Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Knightrider Court, EC4V

Knightrider Street, EC4V Knightrider Street was supposedly a route that knights would take from the Tower of London to Smithfield, where jousts were held.

Knightrider Street, EC4V

Lambeth Hill, EC4V Lambeth Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Lambeth Hill, EC4V

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

Limeburner Lane, EC4M

Little New Street, EC4A Little New Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Little New Street, EC4A

Ludgate Broadway, EC4M Ludgate Broadway is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Ludgate Broadway, EC4M

Ludgate Circus, EC4M Ludgate Circus is a junction in the City of London where Farringdon Street and New Bridge Street cross Fleet Street/Ludgate Hill.

Ludgate Circus, EC4M

Ludgate Hill, EC4M Ludgate Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Ludgate Hill, EC4M

Ludgate House, EC4M Ludgate House is located on Fleet Street.

Ludgate House, EC4M

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

Ludgate Square, EC4M

Magpie Alley, EC4Y Magpie Alley marks the position occupied by the dorter (dormitory) of the Friary of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel, commonly called the Whitefriars Monastery

Magpie Alley, EC4Y

Masters House Temple Church, EC4Y Masters House Temple Church is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Masters House Temple Church, EC4Y

Millennium Bridge House, EC4V Millennium Bridge House is a block on High Timber Street.

Millennium Bridge House, EC4V

Mintel House, EC4V Mintel House can be found on Playhouse Yard.

Mintel House, EC4V

Mitre Court Buildings, EC4Y Mitre Court Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Mitre Court Buildings, EC4Y

Morley House, EC1A Morley House is a block on Holborn Viaduct.

Morley House, EC1A

New Bridge Street House, EC4V New Bridge Street House is a building on New Bridge Street.

New Bridge Street House, EC4V

New Bridge Street, EC4V New Bridge Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

New Bridge Street, EC4V

New Change, EC4M New Change is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

New Change, EC4M

New Court, EC4V New Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

New Court, EC4V

New Fetter Lane, EC4A New Fetter Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

New Fetter Lane, EC4A

New Street Square, EC4A New Street Square is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

New Street Square, EC4A

Newcastle Close, EC4A Newcastle Close - Newcastle Street until 1939 - was possibly called after a former inn called the Castle located here.

Newcastle Close, EC4A

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

Newgate Street, EC1A

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

Noble Street, EC2V

Nomura House, EC1A Nomura House is a block on St Martin’s Le Grand.

Nomura House, EC1A

Norwich Street, EC4A Norwich Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Norwich Street, EC4A

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

Oat Lane, EC2V

Old Bailey, EC4M Old Bailey is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Old Bailey, EC4M

Old Change Court, EC4V Old Change Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Old Change Court, EC4V

Old Change House, EC4V Old Change House is a block on Queen Victoria Street.

Old Change House, EC4V

Old Mitre Court, EC4Y Old Mitre Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Old Mitre Court, EC4Y

Old Seacoal Lane, EC4M Old Seacoal Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Old Seacoal Lane, EC4M

Pageantmaster Court, EC4M Pageantmaster Court was Ludgate Court and renamed in the summer of 1993.

Pageantmaster Court, EC4M

Paper Buildings, EC4Y Paper Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Paper Buildings, EC4Y

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

Paul’s Walk, EC4V Paul’s Walk runs along the north bank of the Thames.

Paul’s Walk, EC4V

Paul’s Walk, EC4V Paul’s Walk is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Paul’s Walk, EC4V

Pemberton Row, EC4A Sir James Pemberton was Lord Mayor of London in 1611, and a member of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.

Pemberton Row, EC4A

Peter’s Hill, EC4V Peter’s Hill is the northern access to the Millennium Bridge.

Peter’s Hill, EC4V

Pilgrim Street, EC4V Pilgrim Street connects New Bridge Street with Ludgate Hill.

Pilgrim Street, EC4V

Playhouse Yard, EC4V Playhouse Yard is named after the Blackfriars theatre which stood here in Shakespeare’s time and where his play’s were performed.

Playhouse Yard, EC4V

Pleydell Court, EC4A Pleydell Court runs off Pleydell Street - formerly Silver Street.

Pleydell Court, EC4A

Pleydell House, EC4Y Pleydell House is a block on Pleydell Street.

Pleydell House, EC4Y

Pleydell Street, EC4Y The Pleydell-Bouveries, Earls of Radnor, were landlords of this area.

Pleydell Street, EC4Y

Plough Place, EC4A Plough Place is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Plough Place, EC4A

Ploughs Place, EC4A Ploughs Place is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Ploughs Place, EC4A

Plowden Buildings, EC4Y Plowden Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Plowden Buildings, EC4Y

Plumtree Court, EC4A Plumtree Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Plumtree Court, EC4A

Poppins Court, EC4A Poppins Court is an historic alley off Fleet Street.

Poppins Court, EC4A

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

Priest’s Court, EC2V

Priory Court, EC4M Priory Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Priory Court, EC4M

Puddle Dock, EC4V Puddle Dock is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Puddle Dock, EC4V

Quadrant Court, EC4M A street within the EC4M postcode

Quadrant Court, EC4M

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

Queen Isabella Way, EC1A

Queen Victoria Street, EC4V Queen Victoria Street was built in 1861 to provide a more efficient approach to London’s central business district

Queen Victoria Street, EC4V

Queenhithe, EC4V Queenhithe is a small and ancient ward of the City of London, situated by the River Thames and a minor street.

Queenhithe, EC4V

Red Lion Court, EC4A Red Lion Court forms part of labyrinth of little passages behind the shops on the north side of Fleet Street.

Red Lion Court, EC4A

Rolls Buildings, EC4A Rolls Buildings is a block on Rolls Buildings.

Rolls Buildings, EC4A

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

Rose Street, EC4M

Saddlers House, EC2V Saddlers House can be found on Gutter Lane.

Saddlers House, EC2V

Salisbury Court, EC4Y Salisbury Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Salisbury Court, EC4Y

Salisbury Square, EC4Y Salisbury Square is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Salisbury Square, EC4Y

Santander House, EC4M Santander House is a block on Ludgate Hill.

Santander House, EC4M

Senator House, EC4V Senator House is a block on Queen Victoria Street.

Senator House, EC4V

Serjeants Inn, EC4Y Serjeants Inn is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Serjeants Inn, EC4Y

Shoe Lane, EC4A Shoe Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Shoe Lane, EC4A

Sir John Lyon House, EC4V Sir John Lyon House can be found on High Timber Street.

Sir John Lyon House, EC4V

Southwark Bridge, EC4V Southwark Bridge is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.

Southwark Bridge, EC4V

St Andrew Street, EC4A St Andrew Street is the northern extension of Shoe Lane.

St Andrew Street, EC4A

St Andrew’s House, EC1N St Andrew’s House is a block on St Andrew Street.

St Andrew’s House, EC1N

St Andrew’s House, EC4V St Andrew’s House is a block on St Andrew’s Hill.

St Andrew’s House, EC4V

St Andrews Hill, EC4V St Andrews Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

St Andrews Hill, EC4V

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 Bride Street, EC4A St Bride Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

St Bride Street, EC4A

St Brides Avenue, EC4Y St Brides Avenue is a narrow alley which leaves Fleet Street almost opposite Shoe Lane.

St Brides Avenue, EC4Y

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 Paul’s Alley, EC4M St Paul’s Alley largely disappeared from the map when Paternoster Row was built.

St Paul’s Alley, EC4M

St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4M By the beginning of the sixteenth century, St. Paul’s Churchyard was the chief centre of the book trade, not only for London, but for the whole country.

St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4M

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

Stationers Hall Court, EC4M

Stew Lane, EC4V Stew Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Stew Lane, EC4V

Stonecutter Street, EC4A Stonecutter Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Stonecutter Street, EC4A

Tallis House 2 Tallis Street, EC4Y Tallis House 2 Tallis Street is a location in London.

Tallis House 2 Tallis Street, EC4Y

Tallis House, EC4Y Tallis House is a block on Tallis Street.

Tallis House, EC4Y

Tallis Street, EC4Y This street honours Thomas Tallis, composer whose name is engraved on the façade of the nearby former building of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Tallis Street, EC4Y

Temple Avenue, EC4Y Temple Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Temple Avenue, EC4Y

Temple Bar House, EC4Y Temple Bar House is a block on Fleet Street.

Temple Bar House, EC4Y

Temple Chambers, EC4Y Temple Chambers is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Temple Chambers, EC4Y

Temple Gardens, EC4Y Temple Gardens is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Temple Gardens, EC4Y

Temple House, EC4Y Temple House is a block on Temple Avenue.

Temple House, EC4Y

Three Barrels Walk, EC4V Three Barrels Walk is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Three Barrels Walk, EC4V

Took’s Court, EC4A Took’s Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Took’s Court, EC4A

Trig Lane, EC4V A street within the EC4V postcode

Trig Lane, EC4V

Tudor Street, EC4Y Tudor Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Tudor Street, EC4Y

Turnagain Lane, EC4A Turnagain Lane is an ancient thoroughfare in the City of London.

Turnagain Lane, EC4A

Unilever House, EC4Y Unilever House is a block on Victoria Embankment.

Unilever House, EC4Y

Upper Cheapside Passage, EC2V A street within the EC2V postcode

Upper Cheapside Passage, EC2V

Upper Thames Street, EC4V Upper Thames Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Upper Thames Street, EC4V

Vestry House, EC1A Vestry House is a block on Greyfriars Passage.

Vestry House, EC1A

Victoria Embankment, EC4Y Victoria Embankment is part of the Thames Embankment scheme of 19th-century civil engineering that reclaimed land next to the River Thames.

Victoria Embankment, EC4Y

Wardrobe Place, EC4V Wardrobe Place is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Wardrobe Place, EC4V

Warwick Lane, EC4M This is a street in the EC4P postcode area

Warwick Lane, EC4M

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

Warwick Square, EC4M

Watergate, EC4Y Watergate is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Watergate, EC4Y

White Lion Hill, EC4V White Lion Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

White Lion Hill, EC4V

Whitefriars Street, EC4Y Whitefriars Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area.

Whitefriars Street, EC4Y

Wine Office Court, EC4A Wine Office Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Wine Office Court, EC4A

NEARBY PUBS

Balls Brothers Ltd

Bottlescrue

Corney & Barrow Wine Bars

Corney & Barrow, Unit 3, Stock Exch

Dado 54

El Vino Blackfriars

El Vino Fleet Street El Vino Fleet Street

El Vino Fleet Street

Harrild and Sons

Harry’s Bar & Pizzeria

Jamie’s Wine Bar and Restaurant

Jamies

Kanaloa

Le Paris Grill

Magpie & Stump The Magpie and Stump is situated at 18 Old Bailey, EC4.

Magpie & Stump

Mermaid Tavern The Mermaid Tavern was a notable tavern during the Elizabethan era.

Patch

Quarter Jacks, Grange St Pauls Hotel

Searcy’s Champagne Bar

The Bridewell Theatre

The Centre Page

The Cockpit

The Crown and Sugar Loaf

The Draft House

The Duke and Duchess

The Fable

The George The George was at 25 Old Bailey.

Viaduct Tavern Have a pint at the Viaduct Tavern - a fine old gin palace, with fine mahogany and brass fittings, art nouveau paintings and lincrusta ceilings.

Viaduct Tavern

Voltaire, Crowne Plaza Hotel

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

Ye Olde Cock Tavern

Ye Olde London

Zorita’s Kitchen

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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	The old wooden Temple Bar Credit: Walter Thornbury TUM image id: 1523115955 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Hopton’s Almshouses, Hopton Street, Bankside (1957) TUM image id: 1470953421 Licence:	Tate Modern viewed from Thames pleasure boat (2003) Credit: Christine Matthews TUM image id: 1557161613 Licence: CC BY 2.0
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	Middle Temple Lane looking towards Victoria Embankment (2008) The buildings are mainly occupied by barristers’ chambers Credit: Wiki Commons/J D Mack TUM image id: 1660223325 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Illustration of Fleet Market Credit: William Henry Prior TUM image id: 1530111646 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Amen Court, EC4M TUM image id: 1493474208 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Anchor Terrace, SE1 A large symmetrical building on Southwark Bridge Road, Anchor Terrace was built in 1834 for senior employees of the nearby Anchor Brewery. The building was converted into luxury flats in the late 1990s. Credit: Wiki Commons/Jwslubbock TUM image id: 1621527193 Licence:
Ayres Street TUM image id: 1544924072 Licence: CC BY 2.0	At the southern end of Carmelite Street in the City of London stood the Victorian-era Whitefriars Fire Station. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1623066010 Licence:	Clerkenwell Green (1898) The water fountain shown here became public toilets. TUM image id: 1620298544 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:	Collingwood Street, near Blackfriars Road c1900 The street was renamed Colombo Street in 1937 by the London County Council. The weatherboarded cottages suffered severe bomb damage during the Blitz and were demolished in 1948 TUM image id: 1681811062 Licence:

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Smithfield Market
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Hopton’s Almshouses, Hopton Street, Bankside (1957)
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Tate Modern viewed from Thames pleasure boat (2003)
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Illustration of Fleet Market
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Amen Court, EC4M
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At the southern end of Carmelite Street in the City of London stood the Victorian-era Whitefriars Fire Station.
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View of Cloth Fair in 1884 showing the side entrance to St Bartholomew’s Priory, Smithfield.
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Holborn Viaduct from Farringdon Street, c. 1910 The building of Farringdon Street is considered one of the greatest urban engineering achievements of the 19th century. It was one of the first engineered multi-lane roads, and also buried the River Fleet in a system of underground tunnels, solving one of London’s most daunting sanitary problems. Its construction also included the building of the world’s first stretch of underground railway, a branch of the Metropolitan Railway that later became part of the London Underground running beneath Farringdon Road from King’s Cross St. Pancras into the City at Farringdon. The construction of Farringdon Street also necessitated the removal of the Fleet Market that had been built in 1736 above the course of the River Fleet, which is now London’s largest subterranean river. North of the market was Hockley-in-the-Hole (around Ray Street Bridge), an area notorious for bear-baiting and similar activities.
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Farringdon Street, EC4M
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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.
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