Postal area EC2Y

Postal area in/near Barbican, existing between 1917 and now

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The streets of EC2Y:
Alfred Close Alfred Close (Alfred’s Close) was a 1939 renaming of the former Alfred’s Place.
Andrewes Highwalk Andrewes Highwalk is named for Lancelot Andrewes, rector of the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church.
Andrewes House Andrewes House is a block on Fore Street.
Barbican Before becoming part of Beech Street, a road called Barbican had its own presence.
Bastion Highwalk Bastion Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Beech Street Beech Street is the western extension of Chiswell Street.
Ben Jonson House Ben Jonson House is a block on Golden Lane.
Blake Tower Blake Tower is located on Fann Street.
Brackley Street 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.
Bradford Avenue Bradford Avenue was a street of warehouses.
Brandon Mews Brandon Mews is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Breton House Breton House is a block on Golden Lane.
Bryer Court Bryer Court is a block on Bridgewater Square
Cromwell Tower Cromwell Tower is a block on Silk Street.
Defoe House Defoe House is a block on Beech Street.
East Market East Market is one of the streets of London in the EC1Apostal area.
Ferroners House Ferroners House
Fore Street Avenue Fore Street Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Fore Street Fore Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Gilbert Bridge Gilbert Bridge is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Gilbert House Gilbert House is a block on Gilbert Bridge.
Glasshouse Yard Glasshouse Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC1Apostal area.
Jewin Street Jewin Street
Lauderdale Tower Lauderdale Tower is the westernmost tower in the Barbican, facing onto Lauderdale Place.
London Wall London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Milton Court Milton Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Milton Street Milton Street was formerly known as Grub Street.
Monkwell House Monkwell House is a building on Barbican Highwalk.
Monkwell Square Monkwell Square is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Moor House Moor House is a block on Fore Street Avenue.
Moorfields Highwalk Moorfields Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Moorfields Moorfields is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Mountjoy House Mountjoy House is a building on Monkwell Square.
New Union Street New Union Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
One Ropemaker Street One Ropemaker Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Pickax Street Pickax Street once ran from Long Lane to Goswell Road (which before 1864 was called Goswell Street).
Red Cross Street Red Cross Street once ran to the junction of Beech Street and Golden Lane.
Roman House Roman House is a building on St Alphage Garden.
Seddon Highwalk Seddon Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Seddon House Seddon House is a block on Aldersgate Street.
Shakespeare Tower Shakespeare Tower can be found on Beech Street.
Silk Street Silk Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Speed House Speed House is a block on Speed Highwalk.
St Alphage Garden St Alphage Garden is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
St Giles Terrace St Giles Terrace lies alongside St Giles Cripplegate church.
The Postern The Postern is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Thomas More Highwalk Thomas More Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Thomas More House Thomas More House is a block on Shaftesbury Place.
Wallside Wallside is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Willoughby Highwalk Willoughby Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Ypostal area.
Willoughby House Willoughby House is a building on Willoughby Highwalk.
Wood Street The northern section Wood Street lies between London Wall and the Barbican.


CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY


The Underground Map   
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.

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Lived here
Katharina Logan   
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

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Jeff Owen   
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.

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Born here
Bernard Miller   
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.

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Born here
jack stevens   
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,

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Added: 6 Nov 2021 15:03 GMT   

Old Nichol Street, E2
Information about my grandfather’s tobacconist shop

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Admin   
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.

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Steven Shepherd   
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.

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Mike   
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.

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MCNALLY    
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

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Martin Eaton    
Added: 14 Oct 2021 03:56 GMT   

Boundary Estate
Sunbury, Taplow House.

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The Underground Map   
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.

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Tom   
Added: 21 May 2021 23:07 GMT   

Blackfriars
What is, or was, Bodies Bridge?

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Added: 21 Apr 2021 16:21 GMT   

Liverpool Street
the Bishopsgate station has existed since 1840 as a passenger station, but does not appear in the site’s cartography. Evidently, the 1860 map is in fact much earlier than that date.

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Added: 27 Jul 2021 14:31 GMT   

correction
Chaucer did not write Pilgrims Progress. His stories were called the Canterbury Tales

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Christine D Elliott   
Added: 20 Mar 2023 15:52 GMT   

The Blute Family
My grandparents, Frederick William Blute & Alice Elizabeth Blute nee: Warnham lived at 89 Blockhouse Street Deptford from around 1917.They had six children. 1. Alice Maragret Blute (my mother) 2. Frederick William Blute 3. Charles Adrian Blute 4. Violet Lillian Blute 5. Donald Blute 6. Stanley Vincent Blute (Lived 15 months). I lived there with my family from 1954 (Birth) until 1965 when we were re-housed for regeneration to the area.
I attended Ilderton Road School.
Very happy memories of that time.

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Pearl Foster   
Added: 20 Mar 2023 12:22 GMT   

Dukes Place, EC3A
Until his death in 1767, Daniel Nunes de Lara worked from his home in Dukes Street as a Pastry Cook. It was not until much later the street was renamed Dukes Place. Daniel and his family attended the nearby Bevis Marks synagogue for Sephardic Jews. The Ashkenazi Great Synagogue was established in Duke Street, which meant Daniel’s business perfectly situated for his occupation as it allowed him to cater for both congregations.

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Dr Paul Flewers   
Added: 9 Mar 2023 18:12 GMT   

Some Brief Notes on Hawthorne Close / Hawthorne Street
My great-grandparents lived in the last house on the south side of Hawthorne Street, no 13, and my grandmother Alice Knopp and her brothers and sisters grew up there. Alice Knopp married Charles Flewers, from nearby Hayling Road, and moved to Richmond, Surrey, where I was born. Leonard Knopp married Esther Gutenberg and lived there until the street was demolished in the mid-1960s, moving on to Tottenham. Uncle Len worked in the fur trade, then ran a pet shop in, I think, the Kingsland Road.

From the back garden, one could see the almshouses in the Balls Pond Road. There was an ink factory at the end of the street, which I recall as rather malodorous.

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KJH   
Added: 7 Mar 2023 17:14 GMT   

Andover Road, N7 (1939 - 1957)
My aunt, Doris nee Curtis (aka Jo) and her husband John Hawkins (aka Jack) ran a small general stores at 92 Andover Road (N7). I have found details in the 1939 register but don’t know how long before that it was opened.He died in 1957. In the 1939 register he is noted as being an ARP warden for Islington warden

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Added: 2 Mar 2023 13:50 GMT   

The Queens Head
Queens Head demolished and a NISA supermarket and flats built in its place.

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Mike   
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.

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Fumblina   
Added: 21 Feb 2023 11:39 GMT   

Error on 1800 map numbering for John Street
The 1800 map of Whitfield Street (17 zoom) has an error in the numbering shown on the map. The houses are numbered up the right hand side of John Street and Upper John Street to #47 and then are numbered down the left hand side until #81 BUT then continue from 52-61 instead of 82-91.

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P Cash   
Added: 19 Feb 2023 08:03 GMT   

Occupants of 19-29 Woburn Place
The Industrial Tribunals (later changed to Employment Tribunals) moved (from its former location on Ebury Bridge Road to 19-29 Woburn Place sometime in the late 1980s (I believe).

19-29 Woburn Place had nine floors in total (one in the basement and two in its mansard roof and most of the building was occupied by the Tribunals

The ’Head Office’ of the tribunals, occupied space on the 7th, 6th and 2nd floors, whilst one of the largest of the regional offices (London North but later called London Central) occupied space in the basement, ground and first floor.

The expansive ground floor entrance had white marble flooring and a security desk. Behind (on evey floor) lay a square (& uncluttered) lobby space, which was flanked on either side by lifts. On the rear side was an elegant staircase, with white marble steps, brass inlays and a shiny brass handrail which spiralled around an open well. Both staircase, stairwell and lifts ran the full height of the building. On all floors from 1st upwards, staff toilets were tucked on either side of the staircase (behind the lifts).

Basement Floor - Tribunal hearing rooms, dormant files store and secure basement space for Head Office. Public toilets.

Geound Floor - The ’post’ roon sat next to the entrance in the northern side, the rest of which was occupied by the private offices of the full time Tribunal judiciary. Thw largest office belonged to the Regional Chair and was situated on the far corner (overlooking Tavistock Square) The secretary to the Regional Chair occupied a small office next door.
The south side of this floor was occupied by the large open plan General Office for the administration, a staff kitchen & rest room and the private offices of the Regional Secretary (office manager) and their deputy.

First Dloor - Tribunal hearing rooms; separate public waiting rooms for Applicants & Respondents; two small rooms used by Counsel (on a ’whoever arrives first’ bases) and a small private rest room for use by tribunal lay members.

Second Floor - Tribunal Hearing Rooms; Tribunal Head Office - HR & Estate Depts & other tennants.

Third Floor - other tennants

Fourth Floor - other tennants

Fifth Floor - Other Tennants except for a large non-smoking room for staff, (which overlooked Tavistock Sqaure). It was seldom used, as a result of lacking any facities aside from a meagre collection of unwanted’ tatty seating. Next to it, (overlooking Tavistock Place) was a staff canteen.

Sixth Floor - Other tennants mostly except for a few offices on the northern side occupied by tribunal Head Office - IT Dept.

Seventh Floor - Other tenants in the northern side. The southern (front) side held the private offices of several senior managers (Secretariat, IT & Finance), private office of the Chief Accuntant; an office for two private secretaries and a stationary cupboard. On the rear side was a small kitchen; the private office of the Chief Executive and the private office of the President of the Tribunals for England & Wales. (From 1995 onwards, this became a conference room as the President was based elsewhere. The far end of this side contained an open plan office for Head Office staff - Secretariat, Finance & HR (staff training team) depts.

Eighth Floor - other tennants.


The Employment Tribunals (Regional & Head Offices) relocated to Vitory House, Kingsway in April 2005.






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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y The Golden Lane Housing Estate is a 1950s council housing complex in the City of London.
Honourable Artillery Company Museum The Honourable Artillery Company Museum opened in 1987.
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.
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.

NEARBY STREETS
Addle Street, EC2V Addle Street, there from ancient times, was a victim of the bulldozer after the Second World War.
Albion Way, EC1A Albion Way is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Alder Castle House, EC2V Alder Castle House can be found on Noble Street.
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, EC2V Aldermanbury is the Saxon name for ’Eldermen’ (elder statesmen) and ’bury’ (house).
Alders Court, EC1Y Ball Court, EC1 was renamed as Alders Court, EC1 in 1936.
Aldersgate Street, EC1A Aldersgate Street is located on the west side of the Barbican Estate.
Alfred Close, EC2Y Alfred Close (Alfred’s Close) was a 1939 renaming of the former Alfred’s Place.
Alphabeta Building, EC2A Alphabeta Building is sited on Worship Street.
Alto House, EC1A Alto House is located on Newbury Street.
Andrewes Highwalk, EC2Y Andrewes Highwalk is named for Lancelot Andrewes, rector of the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church.
Andrewes House, EC2Y Andrewes House is a block on Fore Street.
Angel Court Tower, EC2R Angel Court Tower is a block on Angel Court.
Angel Court, EC2R Angel Court is named after a long demolished inn of this name.
Angel Street, EC1A Angel Street runs between King Edward Street in the west and St Martin’s Le Grand in the east.
Arab Banking Corp. House, EC2R Arab Banking Corp. House can be found on Moorgate.
Austin Friars, EC2N Austin Friars was an Augustinian friary from its foundation in the 1260s, until its dissolution in 1538.
Barbican Court, EC1A Barbican Court was bombed during the Second World War.
Barbican, EC2Y Before becoming part of Beech Street, a road called Barbican had its own presence.
Baroda House, EC1Y Baroda House is located on City Road.
Bartholomew Close, EC1A Bartholomew Close is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Bartholomew Passage, EC1A Bartholomew Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Bartholomew Place, EC1A Bartholomew Place is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Basildon House, EC2R Basildon House is a block on Moorgate.
Basinghall Avenue, EC2V Basinghall Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Basinghall Street, EC2V Basinghall Street joins Gresham Street to the south.
Bassishaw Highwalk, EC2V Bassishaw Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Basterfield House, EC1Y Basterfield House is located on Unnamed Road.
Bastion Highwalk, EC2Y Bastion Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Beech Street, EC2Y Beech Street is the western extension of Chiswell Street.
Bells Alley, EC2N Bells Alley is a road in the SW6 postcode area
Ben Jonson House, EC1Y Ben Jonson House is sited on Golden Lane.
Ben Jonson House, EC2Y Ben Jonson House is a block on Golden Lane.
Blackwell House, EC2V Blackwell House is sited on Guildhall Yard.
Blake Tower, EC2Y Blake Tower is located on Fann Street.
Bonhill Street, EC2A Bonhill Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.
Bornhill Street, EC2A Bornhill Street is a location in London.
Bowater House, EC1Y Bowater House is sited on Fann Street.
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.
Bradford Avenue, EC2Y Bradford Avenue was a street of warehouses.
Brandon Mews, EC2Y Brandon Mews is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Breton House, EC2Y Breton House is a block on Golden Lane.
Brewers Hall Gardens, EC2V Brewers Hall Gardens is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Bridgewater Square, EC1Y Bridgewater Square is an historic square near to the Barbican.
Britannic House, EC2M Britannic House is a block on Finsbury Circus.
Bryer Court, EC2Y Bryer Court is a block on Bridgewater Square
Bull and Mouth Street, EC2V Bull and Mouth Street ran between King Edward Street and St Martin’s Le Grand.
Cap House, EC1A Cap House is a building on Long Lane.
Carey Lane, EC2V Carey Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Carthusian Street, EC1A Carthusian Street is a road in the EC1A postcode area
Charterhouse Buildings, EC1A Charterhouse Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.
Charterhouse Mews, EC1A Charterhouse Mews is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.
Charterhouse Square, EC1M Charterhouse Square is the largest courtyard associated with London Charterhouse, mostly formed of Tudor and Stuart architecture restored after the Blitz.
Cherry Tree Walk, EC1Y Cherry Tree Walk is a road in the EC1Y postcode area
Chiswell Street, EC1Y Chiswell Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.
Churchyard Path, EC1A Churchyard Path runs up to the church of St Bartholomew.
City Gate House, EC2A City Gate House is a block on Finsbury Square.
City Place House, EC2V City Place House is a block on Basinghall Street.
City Tower, EC2V City Tower is a block on Unnamed Road.
Clerkenwell Road, EC1M Clerkenwell Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.
Cloth Court, EC1M Cloth Court is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Cloth Fair, EC1A Cloth Fair stands where the original Bartholomew Fair was held in medieval times.
Cloth Street, EC1M Cloth Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Coach & Horses Yard, EC1A Coach & Horses Yard lay behind the Coach & Horses pub at 71 Bartholomew Close.
Coleman Street, EC2V Coleman Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Compter Passage, EC2V Compter Passage is a location in London.
Copthall Avenue, EC2N Copthall Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.
Copthall Avenue, EC2R Copthall Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.
Crescent House, EC1M Crescent House is sited on Goswell Road.
Cripplegate Street, EC1Y Cripplegate Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.
Cromwell Tower, EC2Y Cromwell Tower is a block on Silk Street.
Crown House, EC1M Crown House is a building on Goswell Road.
Cullum Welch House, EC1M Cullum Welch House is a block on Golden Lane.
Cuthbert Harrowing House, EC1Y Cuthbert Harrowing House is a block on Fann Street.
Davies House, EC2A Davies House is a block on Sun Street.
Defoe House, EC2Y Defoe House is a block on Beech Street.
Dominion Street, EC2M Dominion Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
Drapers Gardens, EC2N Drapers Gardens is a block in Copthall Avenue.
Dufferin Street, EC1Y Dufferin Street runs between Bunhill Row and Whitecross Street.
Duke Street, EC1A Duke Street ran off Smithfield, becoming part of Little Britain in 1885.
East Market, EC2Y East Market is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
East Passage, EC1A East Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Eldon Street, EC2M Eldon Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
Errol Street, EC1Y Errol Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.
Fann Street, EC1Y Fann Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.
Ferroners House, EC2Y Ferroners House
Finsbury Avenue, EC2M Finsbury Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
Finsbury Circus Gardens, EC2M Finsbury Circus Gardens is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
Finsbury Circus House, EC2M Finsbury Circus House is a block on Eldon Street.
Finsbury Circus, EC2M Finsbury Circus is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
Finsbury Court, EC2A Finsbury Court was obliterated in a redevelopment programme taking in Finsbury Pavement.
Finsbury Pavement, EC2M Finsbury Pavement was the first pavement of firm ground north of the marshy Moorfields.
Finsbury Square, EC2A Finsbury Square is a 0.7-hectare square in central London which includes a six-rink grass bowling green.
Finsbury Street, EC2A Finsbury Street is a road in the EC2Y postcode area
Florin Court, EC1M Florin Court is a block on Charterhouse Square
Fore Street Avenue, EC2Y Fore Street Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Fore Street, EC2Y Fore Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Fortune House, EC1Y Fortune House is a block on Fortune Street.
Fortune Street, EC1Y Fortune Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.
Foster Lane, EC2V Foster Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Gilbert Bridge, EC2Y Gilbert Bridge is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Gilbert House, EC2Y Gilbert House is a block on Gilbert Bridge.
Glasshouse Yard, EC2Y Glasshouse Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Glyn House, EC1Y Glyn House is a block on City Road.
Goswell Road, EC1Y Goswell Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.
Great Arthur House, EC1Y Great Arthur House is a building on Fann Street.
Great Swan Alley, EC2R Great Swan Alley is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.
Great Winchester Street, EC2N Great Winchester Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.
Gresham Street, EC2V Gresham Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Guildhall Buildings, EC2V Guildhall Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Guildhall House, EC2V Guildhall House is a block on Gresham Street.
Guildhall Yard, EC2V Guildhall Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Gutter Lane, EC2V Gutter Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Habib House, EC2R Habib House is a block on Moorgate.
Half Moon Court, EC1A Halfmoon Court is the southern most of five passages leading eastward from Kinghorn Street.
Hatfield House, EC1M Hatfield House is a block on Baltic Street West.
Hatfield House, EC1Y Hatfield House is a block on Baltic Street West.
Hayne Street, EC1A Hayne Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Honey Lane, EC2V Honey Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Italia Conti House, EC1M Italia Conti House can be found on Goswell Road.
Jewin Crescent Jewin Crescent - as The Crescent - existed from the end of the eighteenth century.
Jewin Street, EC2Y Jewin Street
Joseph Rotblat Building, EC1A Joseph Rotblat Building is a building on Glasshouse Yard.
King Edward Street, EC1A King Edward Street runs from Newgate Street in the south to Little Britain in the north.
Kinghorn Street, EC1A Kinghorn Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
King’s Arms Yard, EC2R King’s Arms Yard runs east from Moorgate Street.
Lackington Street, EC2M Lackington Street is a road in the EC2A postcode area
Lamb’s Passage, EC1Y Lamb’s Passage was formerly Great Swordbearers (Sword Bearers) Alley.
Lauderdale Tower, EC2Y Lauderdale Tower is the westernmost tower in the Barbican, facing onto Lauderdale Place.
Lindsey House, EC1M Lindsey House can be found on Charterhouse Street.
Lindsey Street, EC1A Lindsey Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
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 in the west.
London Wall, EC2M London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
London Wall, EC2Y London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Long Lane, EC1A Long Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Longbow House, EC1Y Longbow House is a block on Chiswell Street.
Longbow House, EC2A Longbow House is a block on Chiswell Street.
Love Lane, EC2V Love Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Lowndes House, EC1Y Lowndes House is located on City Road.
Mason’s Avenue, EC2V A street within the EC2V postcode
Michael House, EC1Y Michael House is a block on Chiswell Street.
Middle Street, EC1A Middle Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Middlesex Passage, EC1A Middlesex Passage is a location in London.
Milton Court, EC2Y Milton Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Milton Street, EC2Y Milton Street was formerly known as Grub Street.
Mitre Court, EC2V Mitre Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Monkwell House, EC2Y Monkwell House is a building on Barbican Highwalk.
Monkwell Square, EC2Y Monkwell Square is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Moor House, EC2Y Moor House is a block on Fore Street Avenue.
Moorfields Highwalk, EC2Y Moorfields Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Moorfields, EC2Y Moorfields is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Moorgate Hall, EC2M Moorgate Hall is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
Moorgate Place, EC2R Moorgate Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.
Moorgate, EC2M Moorgate is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
Moorgate, EC2R Moorgate is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.
Mountjoy House, EC2Y Mountjoy House is a building on Monkwell Square.
New Union Street, EC2Y New Union Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Newbury Street, EC1A Newbury Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Newgate Street, EC1A Newgate Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Newgate Street, EC2V Newgate Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Noble Street, EC2V Noble Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Nomura House, EC1A Nomura House is a block on St Martin’s Le Grand.
Oat Lane, EC2V Oat Lane has been marked on London maps since 1600 and before.
One Ropemaker Street, EC2Y One Ropemaker Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Park House, EC2M Park House is a block on Finsbury Circus.
Peabody Tower, EC1Y Peabody Tower is a block on Golden Lane.
Pickax Street, EC2Y Pickax Street once ran from Long Lane to Goswell Road (which before 1864 was called Goswell Street).
Priest’s Court, EC2V Priest?s Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Primrose Street, EC2A Primrose Street is a location in London.
Princes House, EC2V Princes House is a block on Gresham Street.
Queen Isabella Way, EC1A Queen Isabella Way is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Red Cross Street, EC2Y Red Cross Street once ran to the junction of Beech Street and Golden Lane.
River Plate House, EC2M River Plate House is a block on Finsbury Circus.
Roman House, EC2Y Roman House is a building on St Alphage Garden.
Ropemaker Street, EC2M Ropemaker Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Salisbury House, EC2M Salisbury House can be found on London Wall.
Saunderson House, EC1A Saunderson House is a block on Long Lane.
Seddon Highwalk, EC2Y Seddon Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Seddon House, EC2Y Seddon House is a block on Aldersgate Street.
Shakespeare Tower, EC2Y Shakespeare Tower can be found on Beech Street.
Silk Street, EC2Y Silk Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Silver Street, EC2V Silver Street was the location of a house in which William Shakespeare lived during his time in London.
South Place, EC2M South Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
Speed House, EC2Y Speed House is a block on Speed Highwalk.
St Alphage Garden, EC2Y St Alphage Garden is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
St Ann’s Lane, EC2V St Ann’s Lane was the name for the west end of Gresham Street until the 1860s.
St Giles Terrace, EC2Y St Giles Terrace lies alongside St Giles Cripplegate church.
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 Mary’s Tower, EC1Y St Mary’s Tower is a block on Fortune Street.
St. Alphage Highwalk, EC2V St Alphage Highwalk is part of the Barbican.
Stanley Cohen House, EC1Y Stanley Cohen House is a block on Golden Lane.
Stock Exchange Building, EC2N Stock Exchange Building is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.
Sutton Lane, EC1M Sutton Lane is a road in the EC1M postcode area
Telegraph Street, EC2R Telegraph Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.
Templeton House, EC1Y Templeton House is a block on Chiswell Street.
The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block
The Postern, EC2Y The Postern is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Therese House, EC1M Therese House is a block on Glasshouse Yard.
Thomas More Highwalk, EC2Y Thomas More Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Thomas More House, EC2Y Thomas More House is a block on Shaftesbury Place.
Three Nun Court, EC2V Three Nun Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Throgmorton Avenue, EC2N Throgmorton Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.
Tokenhouse Yard, EC2R Tokenhouse Yard marked the site of the manufacturer of tokens that were used as the copper coinage of England before the reign of James I.
Vestry House, EC1A Vestry House is a block on Greyfriars Passage.
Wallside, EC2Y Wallside is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Warwick Lane, EC4M This is a street in the EC4P postcode area
Warwick Square, EC4M Warwick Square is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.
Willoughby Highwalk, EC2Y Willoughby Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Willoughby House, EC2Y Willoughby House is a building on Willoughby Highwalk.
Wilson Street, EC2M Wilson Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.
Wood Street, EC2V Wood Street was originally the main north–south route through the Roman Fort, discovered after Second World War bombing.
Wood Street, EC2Y The northern section Wood Street lies between London Wall and the Barbican.

NEARBY PUBS

Coach & Horses The Coach & Horses was situated at 71 Bartholomew Close in Smithfield.
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.
The Tokenhouse The Tokenhouse is named for the nearby manufacturer of tokens that were used as the copper coinage of England before the 1680s.


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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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St Lukes Hospital for Lunatics, London
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"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.
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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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The shoemaker was a 1907 London comedy drama, a play "full of tears and laughter."
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View of Cloth Fair in 1884 showing the side entrance to St Bartholomew’s Priory, Smithfield.
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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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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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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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A view of Cornhill, Lombard Street and the Mansion House in the City of London (1810)
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