Cloth Street, EC1M

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

The Underground Map Pepys Street, EC3N 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. Reply
Katharina Logan Ely Place, N1 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 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
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
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
Liverpool Street 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. 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
Lena White Conduit Street, N1 Added: 18 Mar 2021 13:08 GMT	White Conduit Street, N1 My mum, Rosina Wade of the Wade and Hannam family in the area of Chapel Street and Parkfield Street, bought her first “costume” at S Cohen’s in White Conduit Street. Would have probably been about 1936 or thereabouts. She said that he was a small man but an expert tailor. I hope that Islington Council preserve the shop front as it’s a piece of history of the area. Mum used to get her high heel shoes from an Italian shoe shop in Chapel Street. She had size 2 feet and they would let her know when a new consignment of size 2 shoes were in. I think she was a very good customer. She worked at Killingbacks artificial flower maker in Northampton Square and later at the Halifax bombers factory north of Edgware where she was a riveter. Reply
STEPHEN ARTHUR JACKSON Lynedoch Street, E2 Added: 14 Nov 2021 17:12 GMT	Lynedoch Street, E2 my father Arthur Jackson was born in lynedoch street in 1929 and lived with mm grandparents and siblings, until they were relocated to Pamela house Haggerston rd when the street was to be demolished Reply
All bar one Added: 3 Jun 2021 15:50 GMT	All Bar One The capitalisation is wrong Reply
Jack Wilson St Albans Place, N1 Added: 21 Jun 2022 21:40 GMT	Penfold Printers I am seeking the location of Penfold Printers Offices in Dt Albans place - probably about 1870 or so Reply
Erin Windsor Terrace, N1 Added: 2 May 2022 01:33 GMT	Windsor Terrace, N1 hello Reply

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Scott Hatton Savile Row, W1S Added: 30 Jan 2023 11:28 GMT	The Beatles on a London rooftop The Beatles’ rooftop concert took place on the rooftop of the Apple Corps building in London. It was their final public performance as a band and was unannounced, attracting a crowd of onlookers. The concert lasted for 42 minutes and included nine songs. The concert is remembered as a seminal moment in the history of rock music and remains one of the most famous rock performances of all time. Reply
Michael Upham Bala Place, SE16 Added: 16 Jan 2023 21:16 GMT	Bala Place, SE16 My grandfather was born at 2 Bala Place. Reply
Nant Street, E2 Added: 15 Jan 2023 09:49 GMT	The Bombing of Nant Street WW2 My uncle with his young son and baby daughter were killed in the bombing of Nant Street in WW2. His wife had gone to be with her mother whilst the bombing of the area was taking place, and so survived. Cannot imagine how she felt when she returned to see her home flattened and to be told of the death of her husband and children. Reply
Brian J MacIntyre Dolphin Square Added: 8 Jan 2023 17:27 GMT	Malcolm Davey at Raleigh House, Dolphin Square My former partner, actor Malcolm Davey, lived at Raleigh House, Dolphin Square, for many years until his death. He was a wonderful human being and an even better friend. A somewhat underrated actor, but loved by many, including myself. I miss you terribly, Malcolm. Here’s to you and to History, our favourite subject. Love Always - Brian J MacIntyre Minnesota, USA Reply
Robert Burns Abourne Street, W9 Added: 5 Jan 2023 17:46 GMT	1 Abourne Street My mother, and my Aunt and my Aunt’s family lived at number 1 Abourne Street. I remember visitingn my aunt Win Housego, and the Housego family there. If I remember correctly virtually opposite number 1, onthe corner was the Lord Amberley pub. Reply
Southam Street, W10 Added: 30 Dec 2022 21:41 GMT	Southam Street, W10 do any one remember J&A DEMOLITON at harrow rd kensal green my dad work for them in a aec 6 wheel tipper got a photo of him in it Reply
Fumblina Red Lion Added: 26 Dec 2022 18:59 GMT	Detailed history of Red Lion I’m not the author but this blog by Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms has loads of really clear information about the history of the Red Lion which people might appreciate. Source: ‘Professor Morris’ and the Red Lion, Kilburn Reply
BG Lancing Street, NW1 Added: 20 Dec 2022 02:58 GMT	Lancing Street, NW1 LANCING STREET Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

Clerkenwell Preceptory The following is a list of monastic houses in Greater London, England.

Clerkenwell Preceptory

Clerkenwell Priory Clerkenwell Priory was a priory of the Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, located in Clerkenwell, London.

Clerkenwell Priory

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

Fleet Market

Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y The Golden Lane Housing Estate is a 1950s council housing complex in the City of London.

Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y

Hicks Hall Hicks Hall (1611 - 1778) was a building in St John Street, Clerkenwell.

Hicks Hall

Marx Memorial Library The Marx Memorial Library in London holds more than 43,000 books, pamphlets and newspapers on Marxism, Scientific Socialism and Working class history.

Marx Memorial Library

Museum of the Order of St John The Museum of the Order of St John in Clerkenwell, London, tells the story of the Venerable Order of Saint John.

Museum of the Order of St John

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.

Old Dick Whittington

Smithfield Smithfield is a locality in the ward of Farringdon Without situated at the City of London’s northwest corner.

Smithfield

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.

St Bartholomew’s Hospital

St James’s Church, Clerkenwell St James Church, Clerkenwell, is an Anglican parish church.

St James’s Church, Clerkenwell

St John Clerkenwell St John Clerkenwell is a former parish church in Clerkenwell, now used as the chapel of the modern Order of St John.

St John Clerkenwell

NEARBY STREETS

Addle Street, EC2V Addle Street, there from ancient times, was a victim of the bulldozer after the Second World War.

Addle Street, EC2V

Albemarle Way, EC1M Albemarle Way was named after Elizabeth, Dowager Duchess of Albermarle, who lived at Newcastle House nearby in the 18th century.

Albemarle Way, EC1M

Albion Courtyard, EC1A Albion Courtyard is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Albion Courtyard, EC1A

Albion Place, EC1M Albion Place was formerly George Court.

Albion Place, EC1M

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

Albion Way, EC1A

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 Square, EC2V

Aldermanbury, EC2V Aldermanbury is the Saxon name for ’Eldermen’ (elder statesmen) and ’bury’ (house).

Aldermanbury, EC2V

Alders Court, EC1Y Ball Court, EC1 was renamed as Alders Court, EC1 in 1936.

Alders Court, EC1Y

Aldersgate Street, EC1A Aldersgate Street is located on the west side of the Barbican Estate.

Aldersgate Street, EC1A

Alfred Close, EC2Y Alfred Close (Alfred’s Close) was a 1939 renaming of the former Alfred’s Place.

Alfred Close, EC2Y

Andrewes Highwalk, EC2Y Andrewes Highwalk is named for Lancelot Andrewes, rector of the nearby St Giles-without-Cripplegate Church.

Andrewes Highwalk, EC2Y

Andrewes House, EC2Y Andrewes House is a block on Fore Street

Andrewes House, EC2Y

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

Aylesbury Street, EC1V Aylesbury Street - after the earl of Aylesbury who owned a house near here in the 17th century.

Aylesbury Street, EC1V

Bale’s Court, EC1M Bale’s Court was a small courtyard off White Horse Alley.

Bale’s Court, EC1M

Baltic Street East, EC1Y Baltic Street East was built by a timber merchant around 1810 who named local streets after trade-related activities.

Baltic Street East, EC1Y

Baltic Street West, EC1Y Baltic Street is split into east and west halves.

Baltic Street West, EC1Y

Barbican Court, EC1A Barbican Court was bombed during the Second World War.

Barbican Court, EC1A

Barbican, EC2Y Before becoming part of Beech Street, a road called Barbican had its own presence.

Barbican, EC2Y

Bartholomew Close, EC1A Bartholomew Close is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Bartholomew Close, EC1A

Bartholomew Passage, EC1A Bartholomew Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Bartholomew Passage, EC1A

Bartholomew Place, EC1A Bartholomew Place is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Bartholomew Place, EC1A

Basinghall Avenue, EC2V Basinghall Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Basinghall Avenue, EC2V

Basinghall Street, EC2V Basinghall Street joins Gresham Street to the south.

Basinghall Street, EC2V

Bastion Highwalk, EC2Y Bastion Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Bastion Highwalk, EC2Y

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

Bear Alley, EC4A

Beech Street, EC2Y Beech Street is the western extension of Chiswell Street.

Beech Street, EC2Y

Benjamin Street, EC1M Benjamin Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Benjamin Street, EC1M

Berkeley Court, EC1M Berkeley Court ran south out of Berkley Street (now Briset Street).

Berkeley Court, EC1M

Berry Street, EC1M Berry Street is a road in the EC1M postcode area

Berry Street, EC1M

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

Bishop’s Court, EC4M

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.

Brackley Street, EC2Y

Bradford Avenue, EC2Y Bradford Avenue was a street of warehouses.

Bradford Avenue, EC2Y

Brandon Mews, EC2Y Brandon Mews is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Brandon Mews, EC2Y

Bridgewater Square, EC1Y Bridgewater Square is an historic square near to the Barbican.

Bridgewater Square, EC1Y

Briset Street, EC1M Briset Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Briset Street, EC1M

Britton Street, EC1M Britton Street was named after Thomas Britten, a 17th century coalman.

Britton Street, EC1M

Broad Yard, EC1M Broad Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Broad Yard, EC1M

Bryer Court, EC2Y Bryer Court is a block on Bridgewater Square

Bryer Court, EC2Y

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

Carthusian Street, EC1A Carthusian Street is a road in the EC1A postcode area

Carthusian Street, EC1A

Central Markets, EC1A Central Markets is the address of traders within Smithfield Market.

Central Markets, EC1A

Charterhouse Buildings, EC1A Charterhouse Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Charterhouse Buildings, EC1A

Charterhouse Mews, EC1A Charterhouse Mews is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Charterhouse Mews, EC1A

Charterhouse Square, EC1M Charterhouse Square is the largest courtyard associated with London Charterhouse, mostly formed of Tudor and Stuart architecture restored after the Blitz.

Charterhouse Square, EC1M

Charterhouse Street, EC1A Charterhouse Street is a street on the northern boundary of the City of London.

Charterhouse Street, EC1A

Chequer Street, EC1Y Chequer Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Chequer Street, EC1Y

Cherry Tree Walk, EC1Y Cherry Tree Walk is a road in the EC1Y postcode area

Cherry Tree Walk, EC1Y

Churchyard Path, EC1A Churchyard Path runs up to the church of St Bartholomew.

Churchyard Path, EC1A

Clerkenwell Green, EC1M Clerkenwell Green is the street named after the historical green.

Clerkenwell Green, EC1M

Clerkenwell Road, EC1M Clerkenwell Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Clerkenwell Road, EC1M

Cloth Court, EC1M Cloth Court is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Cloth Court, EC1M

Cloth Fair, EC1A Cloth Fair stands where the original Bartholomew Fair was held in medieval times.

Cloth Fair, EC1A

Coach & Horses Yard, EC1A Coach & Horses Yard lay behind the Coach & Horses pub at 71 Bartholomew Close.

Coach & Horses Yard, EC1A

Cock Lane, EC1A Cock Lane leads from Giltspur Street in the east to Snow Hill in the west.

Cock Lane, EC1A

Compter Passage, EC2V Compter Passage is a location in London.

Compter Passage, EC2V

Cornwell House, EC1M Residential block

Cornwell House, EC1M

Cowcross Street, EC1M Cowcross Street links Farringdon station with Charterhouse Street.

Cowcross Street, EC1M

Crescent Row, EC1Y Crescent Row is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Crescent Row, EC1Y

Cripplegate Street, EC1Y Cripplegate Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Cripplegate Street, EC1Y

Crozier Court, EC1M Abbot’s Place, NW6

Crozier Court, EC1M

Defoe House, EC2Y Defoe House is a block on Beech Street

Defoe House, EC2Y

Domingo Street, EC1Y Domingo Street links Old Street with Baltic Street East.

Domingo Street, EC1Y

Dufferin Avenue, EC1Y Dufferin Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Dufferin Avenue, EC1Y

Dufferin Street, EC1Y Dufferin Street runs between Bunhill Row and Whitecross Street.

Dufferin Street, EC1Y

Duke Street, EC1A Duke Street ran off Smithfield, becoming part of Little Britain in 1885.

Duke Street, EC1A

Eagle Court, EC1M Eagle Court is a courtyard situated off of Benjamin Street.

Eagle Court, EC1M

East Market, EC2Y East Market is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

East Market, EC2Y

East Passage, EC1A East Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

East Passage, EC1A

East Poultry Avenue, EC1A East Poultry Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

East Poultry Avenue, EC1A

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

Elliot’s Court, EC4M

Errol Street, EC1Y Errol Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Errol Street, EC1Y

Fann Street, EC1Y Fann Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Fann Street, EC1Y

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

Farringdon Road, EC1A

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

Farringdon Street, EC1A

Faulkners Alley, EC1M Faulkners Alley is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Faulkners Alley, EC1M

Ferroners House, EC2Y Ferroners House

Ferroners House, EC2Y

Florin Court, EC1M Florin Court is a block on Charterhouse Square

Florin Court, EC1M

Fore Street Avenue, EC2Y Fore Street Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Fore Street Avenue, EC2Y

Fore Street, EC2Y Fore Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Fore Street, EC2Y

Fortune Street, EC1Y Fortune Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Fortune Street, EC1Y

Gate House, EC1M Residential block

Gate House, EC1M

Gilbert Bridge, EC2Y Gilbert Bridge is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Gilbert Bridge, EC2Y

Gilbert House, EC2Y Gilbert House is a block on Gilbert Bridge

Gilbert House, EC2Y

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

Giltspur Street, EC1A

Glasshouse Yard, EC2Y Glasshouse Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Glasshouse Yard, EC2Y

Golden Lane, EC1Y Golden Lane connects Old Street and Beech Street.

Golden Lane, EC1Y

Goswell Road, EC1Y Goswell Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Goswell Road, EC1Y

Grand Avenue, EC1A Grand Avenue runs through the centre of Smithfield Market.

Grand Avenue, EC1A

Great Sutton Street, EC1M Great Sutton Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Great Sutton Street, EC1M

Greenhills Rents, EC1A Greenhills Rents is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Greenhills Rents, EC1A

Half Moon Court, EC1A Halfmoon Court is the southern most of five passages leading eastward from Kinghorn Street.

Half Moon Court, EC1A

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

Hayne Street, EC1A

Holborn Viaduct, EC1A Holborn Viaduct is a road bridge in London and the name of the street which crosses it.

Holborn Viaduct, EC1A

Hosier Lane, EC1A Hosier Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Hosier Lane, EC1A

Jerusalem Passage, EC1M Jerusalem Passage was named for an old public house, St John of Jerusalem, which stood at the northeast corner until 1760.

Jerusalem Passage, EC1M

Jewin Crescent Jewin Crescent - as The Crescent - existed from the end of the eighteenth century.

Jewin Crescent

Jewin Street, EC2Y Jewin Street

Jewin Street, EC2Y

King Edward Street, EC1A King Edward Street runs from Newgate Street in the south to Little Britain in the north.

King Edward Street, EC1A

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

Kinghorn Street, EC1A

Lamb’s Passage, EC1Y Lamb’s Passage was formerly Great Swordbearers (Sword Bearers) Alley.

Lamb’s Passage, EC1Y

Lauderdale Tower, EC2Y Lauderdale Tower is the westernmost tower in the Barbican, facing onto Lauderdale Place.

Lauderdale Tower, EC2Y

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

Lindsey Street, EC1A

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.

Little Britain, EC1A

London Central Markets, EC4A London Central Markets is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

London Central Markets, EC4A

London Wall, EC2Y London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

London Wall, EC2Y

Long Lane, EC1A Long Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Long Lane, EC1A

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

Love Lane, EC2V

Mason’s Avenue, EC2V A street within the EC2V postcode

Mason’s Avenue, EC2V

Memel Street, EC1Y Memel Street was built over the site of a former brewery in the 1810s.

Memel Street, EC1Y

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

Middle Street, EC1A

Middlesex Passage, EC1A Middlesex Passage is a location in London.

Middlesex Passage, EC1A

Milton Court, EC2Y Milton Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Milton Court, EC2Y

Milton Street, EC2Y Milton Street was formerly known as Grub Street.

Milton Street, EC2Y

Monkwell Square, EC2Y Monkwell Square is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Monkwell Square, EC2Y

Moorfields Highwalk, EC2Y Moorfields Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Moorfields Highwalk, EC2Y

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

Newbury Street, EC1A

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

Northburgh Street, EC1M Northburgh Street in the EC1V postcode is a western extension of the main part of the street.

Northburgh Street, EC1M

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

Oat Lane, EC2V

Passing Alley, EC1M Passing Alley is a road in the EC1M postcode area

Passing Alley, EC1M

Penny Bank Chambers, EC1M Penny Bank Chambers is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Penny Bank Chambers, EC1M

Peter’s Lane, EC1M Peter’s Lane is named after the church which once stood close to the Cross Keys tavern.

Peter’s Lane, EC1M

Pickax Street, EC2Y Pickax Street once ran from Long Lane to Goswell Road (which before 1864 was called Goswell Street).

Pickax Street, EC2Y

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

Plumtree Court, EC4A

Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block

Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M

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

Queen Isabella Way, EC1A

Red Cross Street, EC2Y Red Cross Street once ran to the junction of Beech Street and Golden Lane.

Red Cross Street, EC2Y

Roman House, EC2Y Roman House is a location in London.

Roman House, EC2Y

Roscoe Street, EC1Y Roscoe Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Roscoe Street, EC1Y

Saint John Street, EC1M This is a street in the EC1M postcode area

Saint John Street, EC1M

Seddon Highwalk, EC2Y Seddon Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Seddon Highwalk, EC2Y

Silk Street, EC2Y Silk Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Silk Street, EC2Y

Silver Street, EC2V Silver Street was the location of a house in which William Shakespeare lived during his time in London.

Silver Street, EC2V

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

Smithfield Street, EC1A

Smokehouse Yard, EC1M Smokehouse Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Smokehouse Yard, EC1M

Snow Hill, EC1A Snow Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Snow Hill, EC1A

St Alphage Garden, EC2Y St Alphage Garden is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

St Alphage Garden, EC2Y

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 Giles Terrace, EC2Y St Giles Terrace lies alongside St Giles Cripplegate church.

St Giles Terrace, EC2Y

St John’s Square, EC1M St John’s Square, south of Clerkenwell Road, is in the EC1M postal area.

St John’s Square, EC1M

St John’s Square, EC1M St John’s Square is split into two sections, north and south of Clerkenwell Road.

St John’s Square, EC1M

St Johns House, EC1M Residential block

St Johns House, EC1M

St Johns Lane, EC1M St Johns Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

St Johns Lane, EC1M

St Johns Path, EC1M St Johns Path is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

St Johns Path, EC1M

St Johns Place, EC1M St Johns Place is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

St Johns Place, EC1M

St John’s Gate, EC1M St John’s Gate is a small named section of road leading to the gate of the same name.

St John’s Gate, EC1M

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. Alphage Highwalk, EC2V St Alphage Highwalk is part of the Barbican.

St. Alphage Highwalk, EC2V

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

Stonecutter Street, EC4A

Sutton Lane, EC1M Sutton Lane is a road in the EC1M postcode area

Sutton Lane, EC1M

Sutton Road, EC1M Sutton Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Sutton Road, EC1M

Sycamore Street, EC1Y Sycamore Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Sycamore Street, EC1Y

The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block

The Charterhouse, EC1M

The Postern, EC2Y The Postern is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

The Postern, EC2Y

Thomas More Highwalk, EC2Y Thomas More Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Thomas More Highwalk, EC2Y

Turnmill Street, EC1 Turnmill Street appears in the works of Shakespeare.

Turnmill Street, EC1

Vestry House, EC1A Residential block

Vestry House, EC1A

Wallside, EC2Y Wallside is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Wallside, EC2Y

Warwick Yard, EC1Y Warwick Yard is a road in the EC1Y postcode area

Warwick Yard, EC1Y

West Smithfield, EC1A West Smithfield is the oldest street of the Smithfield area.

West Smithfield, EC1A

White Horse Alley, EC1M White Horse Alley, until after the Second World War, led north off Cowcross Street.

White Horse Alley, EC1M

Whitecross Street, EC1Y Whitecross Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Whitecross Street, EC1Y

Willoughby Highwalk, EC2Y Willoughby Highwalk is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Willoughby Highwalk, EC2Y

Wood Street, EC2V Wood Street was originally the main north–south route through the Roman Fort, discovered after Second World War bombing.

Wood Street, EC2V

Wood Street, EC2Y The northern section Wood Street lies between London Wall and the Barbican.

NEARBY PUBS

Best Mangal Bar & Restaurant

Coach & Horses The Coach & Horses was situated at 71 Bartholomew Close in Smithfield.

Dado 54

Grand Union Farringdon

Hand & Shears

Harrild and Sons

Hat and Feathers At the corner of Clerkenwell Road and Goswell Road sits the Hat and Feathers pub.

Jamies

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

Magpie & Stump

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.

Oriole

Searcys Bars @ GSM & D

Slug and Lettuce

Sutton Arms

The Artisan

The Butcher’s Hook and Cleaver

The Castle The Castle is the only pub in England that, alongside its pub sign, is permitted to display the three balls of a pawnbroker.

The Grill on the Market

Wood Street Bar and Restaurant

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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.

LOCAL PHOTOS

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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	Walbrook Wharf is an operating freight wharf located in the City of London adjacent to Cannon Street station. TUM image id: 1508582712 Licence: CC BY 2.0	St Lukes Hospital for Lunatics, London TUM image id: 1554045418 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The gravestone of English poet William Blake in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground Credit: https://careergappers.com/ TUM image id: 1622643378 Licence:
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	Great Arthur House, at the centre of the Golden Lane Estate, was the tallest residential building in Britain at the time of its construction. Credit: Steve F/Wiki commons TUM image id: 1582223961 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Sadler House on the Spa Green Estate from Rosebery Avenue (2011) The ’organic’ connection between old and new buildings intended by architect Berthold Lubetkin at Spa Green. Credit: Wiki Commons/Grantham9 TUM image id: 1655931145 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Castle on Cowcross Street, EC1 is the only pub in England that, alongside its pub sign, is permitted to display the three balls of a pawnbroker. Credit: Wiki Commons/oxyman TUM image id: 1653994847 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Illustration of Fleet Market Credit: William Henry Prior TUM image id: 1530111646 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Coach & Horses stood at 71 Bartholomew Close, Smithfield from 1799 until the Second World War. Credit: Guildhall Library TUM image id: 1671490114 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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. Credit: Ewan Munro TUM image id: 1637770947 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Amen Court, EC4M TUM image id: 1493474208 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The shoemaker was a 1907 London comedy drama, a play "full of tears and laughter." TUM image id: 1520778488 Licence:	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:

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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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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)
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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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The Castle on Cowcross Street, EC1 is the only pub in England that, alongside its pub sign, is permitted to display the three balls of a pawnbroker.
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Illustration of Fleet Market
Credit: William Henry Prior
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Coach & Horses stood at 71 Bartholomew Close, Smithfield from 1799 until the Second World War.
Credit: Guildhall Library
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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.
Credit: Ewan Munro
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Amen Court, EC4M
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View of Cloth Fair in 1884 showing the side entrance to St Bartholomew’s Priory, Smithfield.
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