Queen Street, E1W
Tower Hill - a place of executions
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Near the Tower of London was one of the many Queen Streets of London.

First mentioned by Stow in 1722, Queen Street, which used to run south out of Royal Mint Street, was once home to a pub called The Hoop and Horseshoe. This pub gained notoriety as the place where the body of Richard Parker was brought by his widow. Richard Parker was a sailor who was hanged from his ship, HMS Sandwich, off Sheerness in June 1797 for his involvement in the "Nore Mutiny."

To prevent people from breaking into the pub, police were stationed outside. Afterward, Parker’s body was moved to a workhouse located in Nightingale Lane, which is now known as Thomas More Street. Finally, he was buried in Whitechapel.

Both the pub and Queen Street no longer exist in their original form. Queen Street was removed in 1897 for the continuation of Mansell Street to meet the Tower Bridge approach road.

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