Fludyer Street, built in 1767, occupied the site of Axe Yard – where Samuel Pepys and his wife lived for a while – and Duffin’s Alley. This street was named after Sir Samuel Fludyer, the landowner of the site, and who was Lord Mayor in the 1760s.
The eminent surgeon Sir Charles Bell lived in lodgings in Fludyer Street.
The Foreign Office was built over the site in 1864-65.