The name Lime Street comes from the lime burners who once sold lime from there for use in construction.
Lime Street is now perhaps best known as the home of the world’s largest insurance market, Lloyd’s of London - its building was opened on the street in 1986.
Charles Dickens placed the residence of Ebenezer Scrooge in a house on the site of the Lloyd’s building at the corner of Lime Street and Leadenhall Street.
On one side is Leadenhall Market, a building of 1881 by Horace Jones, on a site which held a market in Roman times.
