Gatesborough Street, EC2A

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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
Marion James Edith Street, E2 Added: 12 Mar 2021 17:43 GMT	26 Edith Street Haggerston On Monday 11th October 1880 Charlotte Alice Haynes was born at 26 Edith Street Haggerston the home address of her parents her father Francis Haynes a Gilder by trade and her mother Charlotte Alice Haynes and her two older siblings Francis & George who all welcomed the new born baby girl into the world as they lived in part of the small Victorian terraced house which was shared by another family had an outlook view onto the world of the Imperial Gas Works site - a very grey drab reality of the life they were living as an East End working class family - 26 Edith Street no longer stands in 2021 - the small rundown polluted terrace houses of Edith Street are long since gone along with the Gas Companies buildings to be replaced with green open parkland that is popular in 21st century by the trendy residents of today - Charlotte Alice Haynes (1880-1973) is the wife of my Great Grand Uncle Henry Pickett (1878-1930) As I research my family history I slowly begin to understand the life my descendants had to live and the hardships that they went through to survive - London is my home and there are many areas of this great city I find many of my descendants living working and dying in - I am yet to find the golden chalice! But in all truthfulness my family history is so much more than hobby its an understanding of who I am as I gather their stories. Did Charlotte Alice Pickett nee Haynes go on to live a wonderful life - no I do not think so as she became a widow in 1930 worked in a canteen and never remarried living her life in and around Haggerston & Hackney until her death in 1973 with her final resting place at Manor Park Cemetery - I think Charlotte most likely excepted her lot in life like many women from her day, having been born in the Victorian era where the woman had less choice and standing in society, which is a sad state of affairs - So I will endeavour to write about Charlotte and the many other women in my family history to give them the voice of a life they so richly deserve to be recorded ! Edith Street was well situated for the new public transport of two railway stations in 1880 :- Haggerston Railway Station opened in 1867 & Cambridge Heath Railway Station opened in 1872 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
jack stevens Whites Row, E1 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, Reply
margaret clark Thrawl Street, E1 Added: 15 Oct 2021 22:23 GMT	Margaret’s address when she married in 1938 ^, Josepine House, Stepney is the address of my mother on her marriage certificate 1938. Her name was Margaret Irene Clark. Her father Basil Clark was a warehouse grocer. Reply
Old Nichol Street, E2 Added: 6 Nov 2021 15:03 GMT	Old Nichol Street, E2 Information about my grandfather’s tobacconist shop Reply
Admin Tower Bridge, SE1 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. 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
Martin Eaton Shoreditch Added: 14 Oct 2021 03:56 GMT	Boundary Estate Sunbury, Taplow House. Reply
STEPHEN JACKSON Fellows Court, E2 Added: 14 Nov 2021 17:25 GMT	Fellows Court, E2 my family moved into the tower block 13th floor (maisonette), in 1967 after our street Lenthall rd e8 was demolished, we were one of the first families in the new block. A number of families from our street were rehoused in this and the adjoining flats. Inside toilet and central heating, all very modern at the time, plus eventually a tarmac football pitch in the grounds,(the cage), with a goal painted by the kids on the brick wall of the railway. Reply
The Underground Map Aldgate 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. 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
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

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Richard Lake De Laune Street, SE17 Added: 28 Sep 2022 09:37 GMT	Trade Union Official John William Lake snr moved with his family to 22 De Laune Street in 1936. He was the London Branch Secretary for the Street Masons, Paviours and Road Makers Union. He had previously lived in Orange St now Copperfield St Southwark but had been forced to move because the landlord didn’t like him working from home and said it broke his lease. John William snr died in 1940. His son John William Lake jnr also became a stone mason and at the end of World War two he was responsible for the engraving of the dates of WW2 onto the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Reply
Julie Well Walk, NW3 Added: 22 Sep 2022 18:30 GMT	Well Walk, NW3 (1817 - 1818) The home of Benthy, the Postman, with whom poet John Keats and his brother Tom lodged from early 1817 to Dec., 1818. They occupied the first floor up. Here Tom died Dec. 1, 1818. It was next door to the Welles Tavern then called ’The Green Man’." From collected papers and photos re: No. 1 Well Walk at the library of Harvard University. Source: No. 1, Well Walk, Hampstead. \| HOLLIS for Reply
Wedlake Street Baths Added: 4 Sep 2022 15:42 GMT	Superman 2 I worked here in 1977. The scene in the prison laundry in Superman 2 was filmed here. Reply
TUM The Underground Map Added: 27 Aug 2022 10:22 GMT	The Underground Map Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated the first electrical transformer at the Royal Institute, London. Reply
Admin Tower Bridge, SE1 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. Reply
Admin Paddington Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:44 GMT	The world’s first underground train The very first underground train left Paddington on the new Metropolitan Railway bound for Farringdon Street. Reply
Admin Baker Street Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:41 GMT	Baker Street Baker Street station opened on the Metropolitan Railway - the world’s first underground line. Reply
Admin Olympia Added: 26 Aug 2022 12:17 GMT	TV comes to Olympia Over 7000 people queued to see the first high definition television pictures on sets at the Olympia Radio Show. The pictures were transmitted by the BBC from Alexandra Palace, introduced by Leslie Mitchell, their first announcer. Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

34 Redchurch Street, E2 34 Redchurch Street has existed since at least the late seventeenth century.

34 Redchurch Street, E2

Courtyard Theatre The Courtyard is a theatre housed in the former Passmore Edwards Free Library.

Courtyard Theatre

Honourable Artillery Company Museum The Honourable Artillery Company Museum opened in 1987.

Honourable Artillery Company Museum

Shoreditch Shoreditch is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. It is a built-up district located 2.3 miles (3.7 km) north east of Charing Cross.

Shoreditch

Tenter Ground Tenter Ground harks back to the seventeenth century when this patch of land was surrounded by weavers’ houses and workshops and used to wash and stretch their fabrics on ’tenters’ to dry.

Tenter Ground

Virginia Primary School Virginia Primary School is a mixed school in Tower Hamlets, built in 1887.

Virginia Primary School

Wesley’s Chapel Wesley’s Chapel - originally the City Road Chapel - is a Methodist church built under the direction of John Wesley.

Wesley’s Chapel

Whitefield’s Tabernacle Whitefield’s Tabernacle is a former church at the corner of Tabernacle Street and Leonard Street.

Whitefield’s Tabernacle

NEARBY STREETS

Anning Street, EC2A Anning Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Anning Street, EC2A

Appold Street, EC2A Appold Street runs north-south on the City of London side of Liverpool Street station.

Appold Street, EC2A

Arnold Circus, E2 Arnold Circus lies to the north of Shoreditch.

Arnold Circus, E2

Austin Street, E2 Austin Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Austin Street, E2

Avant Garde Tower, E1 Avant Garde Tower is a block on Bethnal Green Road

Avant Garde Tower, E1

Bache’s Street, N1 This is a street in the N1 postcode area

Bache’s Street, N1

Bartletts Place, EC2A Bartletts Place was Bartletts Buildings on the 1860s mapping, not appearing before then.

Bartletts Place, EC2A

Bateman’s Row, EC2A This is a street in the EC2A postcode area

Bateman’s Row, EC2A

Bath Place, EC2A Bath Place leads off of Rivington Street.

Bath Place, EC2A

Bethnal Green Road, E1 Bethnal Green Road is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Bethnal Green Road, E1

Blackall Street, EC2A Blackall Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Blackall Street, EC2A

Blossom Place, E1 Blossom Place ran west off Blossom Street.

Blossom Place, E1

Blossom Street, E1 Blossom Street runs from Fleur De Lis Street to Folgate Street.

Blossom Street, E1

Bonhill Street, EC2A Bonhill Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Bonhill Street, EC2A

Boot Street, N1 Boot Street is a road in the N1 postcode area

Boot Street, N1

Bornhill Street, EC2A Bornhill Street is a location in London.

Bornhill Street, EC2A

Boundary Passage, E1 Boundary Passage is a road in the E1 postcode area

Boundary Passage, E1

Boundary Street, E2 Boundary Street was at first called Cock Lane.

Boundary Street, E2

Bowl Court, EC2A Bowl Court is a road in the E1 postcode area

Bowl Court, EC2A

Bowling Green Walk, N1 Bowling Green Walk is a road in the N1 postcode area

Bowling Green Walk, N1

Braithwaite Street, E1 Braithwaite Street is a road in the E1 postcode area

Braithwaite Street, E1

Brunswick Place, EC1V Brunswick Place is a road in the EC1V postcode area

Brunswick Place, EC1V

Calvert Avenue, E2 Calvert Avenue is one of the streets radiating from Arnold Circus.

Calvert Avenue, E2

Calvin Street, E1 Calvin Street was part of the Wheler Estate.

Calvin Street, E1

Camlet Street, E2 Camlet Street is one of the Huguenot streetnames of the area.

Camlet Street, E2

Celia Blairman House, E1 Residential block

Celia Blairman House, E1

Chance Street, E1 Chance Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Chance Street, E1

Chapel Place, EC2A Chapel Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Chapel Place, EC2A

Charles Square, N1 Charles Square is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Charles Square, N1

Charlotte Road, EC2A Charlotte Road is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Charlotte Road, EC2A

Chart Street, N1 Chart Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Chart Street, N1

Christina Street, EC2A Christina Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Christina Street, EC2A

Christopher Street, EC2A Christopher Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Christopher Street, EC2A

City Lofts, EC2A City Lofts is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

City Lofts, EC2A

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

City Road, EC1Y

Cleeve Workshops, E2 Cleeve Workshops is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Cleeve Workshops, E2

Clere Street, EC2A Clere Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Clere Street, EC2A

Clifton Street, EC2A Clifton Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Clifton Street, EC2A

Club Row, E1 Club Row is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Club Row, E1

Club Row, E2 Club Row leaves Arnold Circus in a southerly direction.

Club Row, E2

Cock Alley, EC2M Cock Alley was a rather risque streetname leading west off Norton Folgate.

Cock Alley, EC2M

Collingwood Street, E2 Collingwood Street was at the heart of the Old Nicol rookery.

Collingwood Street, E2

Corbet Place, E1 Corbet Place - an L-shaped street, onto which back several large industrial buildings of the early/mid-twentieth century.

Corbet Place, E1

Coronet Street, N1 Coronet Street is a road in the EC1V postcode area

Coronet Street, N1

Corsham Street, N1 Corsham Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Corsham Street, N1

Cowper Street, EC2A Cowper Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Cowper Street, EC2A

Cranwood Street, EC1V Cranwood Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Cranwood Street, EC1V

Crown Place, EC2A Crown Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Crown Place, EC2A

Curtain Place, EC2A Curtain Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Curtain Place, EC2A

Curtain Road, EC2A Curtain Road was the first location of a place called a ’theatre’ - in the sense of a location where acting is performed.

Curtain Road, EC2A

Dereham Place, EC2A Dereham Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Dereham Place, EC2A

Drysdale Street, N1 Drysdale Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Drysdale Street, N1

Earl Street, EC2A Earl Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Earl Street, EC2A

Ebor Street, E1 Ebor Street is a road in the E1 postcode area

Ebor Street, E1

Elder Street, E1 Elder Street was laid out from 1722 as part of the St John and Tillard Estate.

Elder Street, E1

Epworth Street, EC2A Epworth Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Epworth Street, EC2A

Fairchild Place, EC2A Fairchild Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Fairchild Place, EC2A

Fairchild Street, EC2A Fairchild Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Fairchild Street, EC2A

Finsbury Square, EC2A Finsbury Square is a 0.7-hectare square in central London which includes a six-rink grass bowling green.

Finsbury Square, EC2A

Fleur De Lis Street, E1 Fleur De Lis Street runs west from Commercial Street.

Fleur De Lis Street, E1

Folgate Street, E1 Folgate Street, formerly White Lion Yard and White Lion Street, has 17th century origins.

Folgate Street, E1

French Place, EC2A French Place is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

French Place, EC2A

Garden Walk, EC2A Garden Walk is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Garden Walk, EC2A

Gascoigne Place, E2 Gascoigne Place is a road in the E2 postcode area

Gascoigne Place, E2

Great Eastern Street, EC2A Great Eastern Street was laid out in 1872-6

Great Eastern Street, EC2A

Grey Eagle Street, E1 Grey Eagle Street was part of the Wilkes Estate with building leases granted in 1761.

Grey Eagle Street, E1

Gun Yard, E1 Gun Yard ran west out of Norton Folgate.

Gun Yard, E1

Hearn Street, EC2A Hearn Street is a road in the EC2A postcode area

Hearn Street, EC2A

Hewett Street, EC2A Hewett Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Hewett Street, EC2A

Hocker Street, E2 Hocker Street, like the other seven roads radiating from Arnold Circus commemorate the Huguenot connection with the area.

Hocker Street, E2

Hoffman Square, N1 Hoffman Square is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Hoffman Square, N1

Holywell Centre, EC2A Holywell Centre is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Holywell Centre, EC2A

Holywell Lane, EC2A Holywell Lane runs west from Shoreditch High Street and runs on to Curtain Road.

Holywell Lane, EC2A

Holywell Row, EC2A Holywell Row is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Holywell Row, EC2A

Hoxton Market, N1 Hoxton Market is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Hoxton Market, N1

Hoxton Square, N1 Hoxton Square is a garden square laid out in 1683

Hoxton Square, N1

Jerome Street, E1 Jerome Street was formerly Vine Street and part of the Wheler estate.

Jerome Street, E1

Karma Yoga House, EC1V A street within the N1 postcode

Karma Yoga House, EC1V

Kiffen Street, EC2A Kiffen Street links Leonard Street to Clere Street.

Kiffen Street, EC2A

King John Court, E1 King John Court runs between Holywell Lane and New Inn Yard.

King John Court, E1

Leonard Circus, EC2A Leonard Circus is a location in London.

Leonard Circus, EC2A

Leonard Street, EC2A Leonard Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Leonard Street, EC2A

Ligonier Street, E2 Ligonier Street is a road in the E2 postcode area

Ligonier Street, E2

Luke Street, EC2A Luke Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Luke Street, EC2A

Magpie Alley, E1 Magpie Alley was an old name for the western section of Fleur de Lys Street.

Magpie Alley, E1

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

Mallow Street, EC1Y

Mark Street, EC2A Mark Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Mark Street, EC2A

Marlow House, E2 Marlow House was built in 1899.

Marlow House, E2

Marlow Workshops, E2 Marlow Workshops is a Victorian block containing a mixture of residential and commercial use.

Marlow Workshops, E2

Mill House, EC2A Residential block

Mill House, EC2A

Mills Court, EC2A Mills Court is a location in London.

Mills Court, EC2A

Moor Alley, EC2M Moor Alley ran from Norton Folgate to Moor’s Garden.

Moor Alley, EC2M

Moor’s Garden, EC2P Moor’s Garden was buried under the platforms of Liverpool Street station.

Moor’s Garden, EC2P

Mundy Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Mundy Street, N1

Nantes Passage, E1 Nantes Passage (also Church Passage) was built for Huguenot weavers.

Nantes Passage, E1

Navarre Street, E2 Navarre Street leads southwest from Arnold Circus towards Boundary Street.

Navarre Street, E2

New Inn Broadway, EC2A New Inn Broadway is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

New Inn Broadway, EC2A

New Inn Square, EC2A New Inn Square is a road in the EC2A postcode area

New Inn Square, EC2A

New Inn Street, EC2A New Inn Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

New Inn Street, EC2A

New Inn Yard, E1 New Inn Yard once ran through Holywell Priory at the western end of which was the world’s first ’theatre’.

New Inn Yard, E1

New North Place, EC2A New North Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

New North Place, EC2A

Norton Folgate, E1 Norton Folgate links Bishopsgate and Shoreditch High Street.

Norton Folgate, E1

Old Nichol Street, E2 Old Nichol Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Old Nichol Street, E2

Oliver’s Yard, EC2A Oliver’s Yard is a road in the EC2A postcode area

Oliver’s Yard, EC2A

Palissy Street, E2 Palissy Street runs northeast from Arnold Circus.

Palissy Street, E2

Paul Street, EC2A Paul Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Paul Street, EC2A

Perseverance Works, E2 Perseverance Works is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Perseverance Works, E2

Phipp Street, EC2A Phipp Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Phipp Street, EC2A

Pindar Street, EC2A Pindar Street is a road in the EC2A postcode area

Pindar Street, EC2A

Playground Gardens, E2 Playground Gardens is a location in London.

Playground Gardens, E2

Plough Yard, EC2A Plough Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Plough Yard, EC2A

Primrose Street, EC2A Primrose Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Primrose Street, EC2A

Primrose Street, EC2A Primrose Street is a location in London.

Primrose Street, EC2A

Principal Place, EC2A Principal Place is a location in London.

Principal Place, EC2A

Printing House Yard, E2 Printing House Yard is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Printing House Yard, E2

Provost & East Building, Provost & East Building lies within the postcode.

Provost & East Building,

Quaker Street, E1 Quaker Street was at first called Westbury Street.

Quaker Street, E1

Railway Arches, EC2A Railway Arches is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Railway Arches, EC2A

Ravey Street, EC2A Ravey Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Ravey Street, EC2A

Redchurch Street, E1 Redchurch Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Redchurch Street, E1

Richmix Square, E1 Richmix Square is a location in London.

Richmix Square, E1

Rivington Place, EC2A Rivington Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Rivington Place, EC2A

Rivington Street, EC2A Rivington Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Rivington Street, EC2A

Rochelle Street, E2 Rochelle Street connects Swanfield Street with Arnold Circus.

Rochelle Street, E2

Rufus Street, N1 Rufus Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Rufus Street, N1

Scrutton Street, EC2A Scrutton Street is the eastern extension of Epworth Street.

Scrutton Street, EC2A

Shoreditch High Street, E1 Shoreditch High Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Shoreditch High Street, E1

Shoreditch High Street, EC2A Shoreditch High Street is a road in the EC2A postcode area

Shoreditch High Street, EC2A

Shoreditch High Street, EC2A Shoreditch High Street is a road in the EC1V postcode area

Shoreditch High Street, EC2A

Shoreditch High Street, EC2A This is a street in the E8 postcode area

Shoreditch High Street, EC2A

Silbury Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Silbury Street, N1

Silicon Way, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Silicon Way, N1

Silwex House, E1 Residential block

Silwex House, E1

Singer Street, EC1V Singer Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Singer Street, EC1V

Singer Street, EC1V Singer Street is a road in the EC1V postcode area

Singer Street, EC1V

Snowden Street, EC2A Snowden Street is a road in the EC2A postcode area

Snowden Street, EC2A

Spital Square, E1 Spital Square was started in 1733.

Spital Square, E1

Spital Yard, E1 Spital Yard is a mews of 17th century origins, serving the backs of houses on Norton Folgate and Spital Square.

Spital Yard, E1

Square Studio, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Square Studio, N1

Standard Place, EC2A Standard Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Standard Place, EC2A

Streatley Buildings, E2 Streatley Buildings was the first block of the new Boundary Estate - completed in 1896.

Streatley Buildings, E2

Sunbury Workshops, E2 Sunbury Workshops is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Sunbury Workshops, E2

Swanfield Street, E2 Swanfield Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Swanfield Street, E2

Symister Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Symister Mews, N1

Tabernacle Street, EC2A Tabernacle Street was where George Whitefield’s ’Tabernacle’ was built by his supporters after he separated from Wesley in 1741.

Tabernacle Street, EC2A

Tea Building, E1 Tea Building is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Tea Building, E1

The Arches, EC2A The Arches is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

The Arches, EC2A

The Broadgate Tower, EC2A A street within the EC2A postcode

The Broadgate Tower, EC2A

Timber Yard, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Timber Yard, N1

Turville Street, E2 Turville Street is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Turville Street, E2

Union Place, E1 Union Place was a small alleyway off Quaker Street.

Union Place, E1

Vandy Street, EC2A Vandy Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Vandy Street, EC2A

Victoria House, EC2A Victoria House is a location in London.

Victoria House, EC2A

Vince Street, EC1V Vince Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Vince Street, EC1V

Virginia Road, E2 Virginia Road is one of the streets of London in the E2 postal area.

Virginia Road, E2

Wheler Street, E1 Wheler Street runs north from Commercial Street.

Wheler Street, E1

Whitby Street, E1 Whitby Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Whitby Street, E1

Willow Court, EC2A Willow Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Willow Court, EC2A

Willow Street, EC2A Willow Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Willow Street, EC2A

Wilson Street, EC2A Wilson Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Wilson Street, EC2A

Worship Mews, EC2A Worship Mews is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Worship Mews, EC2A

Worship Street, EC2A Worship Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Worship Street, EC2A

Zeus House 16-30, EC2A A street within the EC2A postcode

Zeus House 16-30, EC2A

NEARBY PUBS

Addiscombe Line This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Addiscombe Line

Be at One Limited This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Be at One Limited

Bill’s Restaurant This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Bill’s Restaurant

Blackwall Tunnel The Old Kings Head is located at 28 Holywell Row, EC2.

Blackwall Tunnel

Cargo, The Arches This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Cargo, The Arches

Casita This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Casita

Charlie Wright’s International This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Charlie Wright’s International

Dragon Bar This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Dragon Bar

Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes

East Village This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

East Village

Far Rockaway This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Far Rockaway

Honourable Artillery Company This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Honourable Artillery Company

Horse And Groom The Horse And Groom is on Curtain Road.

Horse And Groom

Iambic Bar This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Iambic Bar

Lounge Bohemia This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Lounge Bohemia

Love’s Company, Unit 1 This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Love’s Company, Unit 1

McQueen This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

McQueen

Mkm Entertainment Ltd This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Mkm Entertainment Ltd

Ninetyeight Bar and Lounge This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Ninetyeight Bar and Lounge

Prague Bar This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Prague Bar

Prince Arthur This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Prince Arthur

Queen of Hoxton This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Queen of Hoxton

Roadtrip Bar This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Roadtrip Bar

Shoreditch House This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Shoreditch House

Singer This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Singer

The Angel This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Angel

The Barley Mow This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Barley Mow

The Book Club This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Book Club

The Bricklayers Arms This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Bricklayers Arms

The Flying Horse This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Flying Horse

The Fox This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Fox

The Griffin This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Griffin

The Old Blue Last This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Old Blue Last

The Primrose The Primrose was a pub on the corner of Norton Folgate and Primrose Street.

The Primrose

The Princess Of Shoreditch This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Princess Of Shoreditch

The Windmill This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Windmill

Three Blind Mice This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Three Blind Mice

Trafik This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Trafik

XOYO (GROUND FLOOR) This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

XOYO (GROUND FLOOR)

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Shoreditch

Shoreditch is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. It is a built-up district located 2.3 miles (3.7 km) north east of Charing Cross.

An old form of the name is Soersditch, and the origin is lost, though early tradition connects it with Jane Shore, the mistress of Edward IV.

It was the site of an Augustinian priory in the 12th Century until its dissolution in 1539. In 1576 the first playhouse (theatre) in England was opened, and in 1577 The Curtain theatre was opened in the middle of what is Curtain Road today.

During the 17th Century, wealthy traders and Huguenot silk weavers moved to the area, establishing a textile industry centered to the south around Spitalfields Market. The area declined along with the textile industry and from the end of the 19th Century to the 1960s, Shoreditch was a by-word for crime, prostitution and poverty.

Today Shoreditch is a busy and popular district, noted for its large number of art galleries, bars, restaurants, media businesses and an urban golf club.

Shoreditch High Street station officially opened to the public on 27 April 2010 with services running between Dalston Junction and New Cross or New Cross Gate. The station replaced nearby Shoreditch, which closed on 9 June 2006. The next station to the south is Whitechapel and to the north is Hoxton.

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The Boar’s Head was located on the north side of Whitechapel High Street. The Boar’s Head was originally an inn, which was built in the 1530s; it underwent two renovations for use as a playhouse: first, in 1598, when a simple stage was erected, and a second, more elaborate renovation in 1599. Credit: Unknown TUM image id: 1518792376 Licence:	Bevis Marks Synagogue Credit: John Salmon TUM image id: 1519475277 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) addressing a "smoking debate" at Toynbee Hall (1902) TUM image id: 1660651336 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Petticoat Lane in the 1920s Credit: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) TUM image id: 1523993996 Licence:	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:	Geffrye Museum, London (2012) Credit: Chang Yisheng TUM image id: 1557162652 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Mass grave for plague victims, Holywell Mount (1665) Holywell Mount is the source of the River Walbrook. Today it lies underneath Luke Street in Shoreditch but, then in open land, was used as a plague pit in 1665. TUM image id: 1627419399 Licence:	Established in 1745 as The Old Jerusalem, a drinking house took the name of Dirty Dick’s in 1814 and adopted his story along with it. The original of Dirty Dick was Nathaniel Bentley, a successful merchant with a hardware shop and warehouse in Leadenhall Street in the mid-eighteenth century. After his bride-to-be died on their wedding day - so the legend goes - he never cleaned up again, never washed or changed his clothes. Bentley died in 1809, and the Bishopsgate Distillers appropriated this story of the notorious dirty hardware merchant, adorning their bar with dead cats and cobwebs to perpetuate the legend. Credit: Spitalfields Life TUM image id: 1641301488 Licence:	Middlesex Street (Petticoat Lane) on the site of Sandy’s Row (1912) Credit: CA Mathew/Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1641574406 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The Primrose pub on the corner of Norton Folgate/Bishopsgate and Primrose Street (1912) The Primrose, which had existed since at least since 1839, was demolished in 1987 Credit: CA Mathew/Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1641566818 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Artillery Lane as viewed from Bishopsgate (1912) Credit: CA Mathew/Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1641571742 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Ten Bells pub, Spitalfields (2012) The Jamie Oliver series Jamie’s Great Britain featured his great-great-grandfather was a landlord of the pub during the 1880s. Oliver was shown visiting the Ten Bells to discuss his East London roots, and to see how Londoners lived, drank and ate at the end of the 19th century. Credit: Wiki Commons/Wordspotandsmith TUM image id: 1641510553 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Old Spitalfields Market (2017) This is a covered market which has been on the site for over 350 years. In 2005, a regeneration programme resulted in the new public spaces: Bishops Square and Crispin Place, which are now part of the modern Spitalfields Market. A range of public markets runs daily, with independent local stores and restaurants - as well as new office developments. Credit: Pete Gloria TUM image id: 1641485607 Licence: CC BY 2.0	One of the bedrooms of Dennis Severs’ House in Folgate Street, Spitalfields. Each room of Dennis Severs’ House is a preserve ’experience’ of 18th-century Huguenot life. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1641983736 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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Petticoat Lane in the 1920s
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Mass grave for plague victims, Holywell Mount (1665) Holywell Mount is the source of the River Walbrook. Today it lies underneath Luke Street in Shoreditch but, then in open land, was used as a plague pit in 1665.
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Established in 1745 as The Old Jerusalem, a drinking house took the name of Dirty Dick’s in 1814 and adopted his story along with it. The original of Dirty Dick was Nathaniel Bentley, a successful merchant with a hardware shop and warehouse in Leadenhall Street in the mid-eighteenth century. After his bride-to-be died on their wedding day - so the legend goes - he never cleaned up again, never washed or changed his clothes. Bentley died in 1809, and the Bishopsgate Distillers appropriated this story of the notorious dirty hardware merchant, adorning their bar with dead cats and cobwebs to perpetuate the legend.
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The Primrose pub on the corner of Norton Folgate/Bishopsgate and Primrose Street (1912) The Primrose, which had existed since at least since 1839, was demolished in 1987
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Artillery Lane as viewed from Bishopsgate (1912)
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The Ten Bells pub, Spitalfields (2012) The Jamie Oliver series Jamie’s Great Britain featured his great-great-grandfather was a landlord of the pub during the 1880s. Oliver was shown visiting the Ten Bells to discuss his East London roots, and to see how Londoners lived, drank and ate at the end of the 19th century.
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Old Spitalfields Market (2017) This is a covered market which has been on the site for over 350 years. In 2005, a regeneration programme resulted in the new public spaces: Bishops Square and Crispin Place, which are now part of the modern Spitalfields Market. A range of public markets runs daily, with independent local stores and restaurants - as well as new office developments.
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One of the bedrooms of Dennis Severs’ House in Folgate Street, Spitalfields. Each room of Dennis Severs’ House is a preserve ’experience’ of 18th-century Huguenot life.
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Shepherd’s Place archway (c. 1810), and Tenter Street (c. 1820) in 1909
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Looking down Artillery Lane towards Artillery Passage in Spitalfields (1912)
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