Keppel Street, WC1E

Keppel Street links Store Street and Gower Street in the west to Malet Street in the east.

The street was developed between 1800 and 1810 by builders including Alexander Hendry and Thomas Lewis

British Museum Avenue was created in the early twentieth century, dividing the street, and replacing Torrington Street, Russell Mews and Keppel Mews South. British Museum Avenue was itself built over in the early 1930s when Senate House and other University of London buildings were constructed on the former eastern end of Keppel Street.

Before the Senate House, it continued on to join Russell Square. The former Royal Institute of Chemistry building, now with a street address of 30 Russell Square, is at what was the eastern end of the street on the north side.

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The Underground Map Whitehall, SW1A Added: 8 Dec 2020 00:24 GMT	Othello takes a bow On 1 November 1604, William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello was presented for the first time, at The Palace of Whitehall. The palace was the main residence of the English monarchs in London from 1530 until 1698. Seven years to the day, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy The Tempest was also presented for the first time, and also at the Palace of Whitehall. Reply
Linda Webb Hungerford Stairs Added: 27 Sep 2021 05:51 GMT	Hungerford Stairs In 1794 my ancestor, George Webb, Clay Pipe Maker, lived in Hungerford Stairs, Strand. Source: Wakefields Merchant & Tradesmens General Directory London Westminster 1794 Source: Hungerford Stairs 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
Roy Batham Covent Garden Added: 7 Jan 2022 07:17 GMT	Smithy in Longacre John Burris 1802-1848 Listed 1841 census as Burroughs was a blacksmith, address just given as Longacre. Source: Batham/Wiseman - Family Tree Reply
Reg Carr Elstree Street, N1C Added: 10 Feb 2021 12:11 GMT	Campbellite Meeting In 1848 the Campbellites (Disciples of Christ) met in Elstree Street, where their congregation was presided over by a pastor named John Black. Their appointed evangelist at the time was called David King, who later became the Editor of the British Millennial Harbinger. The meeting room was visited in July 1848 by Dr John Thomas, who spoke there twice on his two-year ’mission’ to Britain. Reply
Scott Hatton Blackmoor Street, WC2B Added: 11 Sep 2020 19:47 GMT	Millions Of Rats In Busy London The Daily Mail on 14 April 1903 reported "MILLIONS OF RATS IN BUSY LONDON" A rat plague, unprecedented in the annals of London, has broken out on the north side of the Strand. The streets principally infested are Catherine street, Drury lane, Blackmore street, Clare Market and Russell street. Something akin to a reign of terror prevails among the inhabitants after nightfall. Women refuse to pass along Blackmore street and the lower parts of Stanhope street after dusk, for droves of rats perambulate the roadways and pavements, and may be seen running along the window ledges of the empty houses awaiting demolition by the County Council in the Strand to Holborn improvement scheme. The rats, indeed, have appeared in almost-incredible numbers. "There are millions of them," said one shopkeeper, and his statement was supported by other residents. The unwelcome visitors have been evicted from their old haunts by the County Council housebreakers, and are now busily in search of new homes. The Gaiety Restaurant has been the greatest sufferer. Rats have invaded the premises in such force that the managers have had to close the large dining room on the first floor and the grill rooms on the ground floor and in the basement. Those three spacious halls which have witnessed many as semblages of theatre-goers are now qui:e deserted. Behind the wainscot of the bandstand in the grillroom is a large mound of linen shreds. This represents 1728 serviettes carried theee by the rats. In the bar the removal of a panel disclosed the astonishing fact that the rats have dragged for a distance of seven or eight yards some thirty or forty beer and wine bottles and stacked them in such a fashion as to make comfortable sleeping places. Mr Williams. the manager of the restaurant, estimates that the rats have destroyed L200 worth of linen. Formerly the Gaiety Restaurant dined 2000 persons daily; no business whatever is now done in this direction. Reply
Julian Collingwood House, W1W Added: 23 Mar 2021 10:11 GMT	Dennis Potter Author Dennis Potter lived in Collingwood House in the 1970’s Reply
Jessie Doring Tisbury Court, W1D Added: 22 Feb 2021 04:33 GMT	Tisbury Court Jazz Bar Jazz Bar opened in Tisbury Court by 2 Australians. Situated in underground basement. Can not remember how long it opened for. Reply
Richard Roques Hungerford Stairs Added: 21 Jan 2021 16:53 GMT	Buckingham Street residents Here in Buckingham Street lived Samuel Pepys the diarist, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling Reply
Jude Allen Orange Street, WC2H Added: 29 Jul 2021 07:53 GMT	Bra top I jave a jewelled item of clothong worn by a revie girl. It is red with diamante straps. Inside it jas a label Bermans Revue 16 Orange Street but I cannot find any info online about the revue only that 16 Orange Street used to be a theatre. Does any one know about the revue. I would be intesrested to imagine the wearer of the article and her London life. Reply

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Gardnor Road, NW3 Added: 16 Nov 2022 12:39 GMT	The Pearce family lived in Gardnor Road The Pearce family moved into Gardnor Road around 1900 after living in Fairfax walk, my Great grandfather, wife and there children are recorded living in number 4 Gardnor road in the 1911 census, yet I have been told my grand father was born in number 4 in 1902, generations of the Pearce continue living in number 4 as well other houses in the road up until the 1980’s Reply
Gardnor Road, NW3 Added: 16 Nov 2022 12:38 GMT	The Pearce family lived in Gardnor Road The Pearce family moved into Gardnor Road around 1900 after living in Fairfax walk, my Great grandfather, wife and there children are recorded living in number 4 Gardnor road in the 1911 census, yet I have been told my grand father was born in number 4 in 1902, generations of the Pearce continue living in number 4 as well other houses in the road up until the 1980’s Reply
Phil Stubbington Rodenhurst Road, SW4 Added: 14 Nov 2022 16:28 GMT	Numbers 60 to 70 (1901 - 1939) A builder, Robert Maeers (1842-1919), applied to build six houses on plots 134 to 139 on the Lincoln House Estate on 5 October 1901. He received approval on 8 October 1901. These would become numbers 60 to 70 Rodenhurst Road (60 is plot 139). Robert Maeers was born in Northleigh, Devon. In 1901 he was living in 118 Elms Road with his wife Georgina, nee Bagwell. They had four children, Allan, Edwin, Alice, and Harriet, born between 1863 and 1873. Alice Maeers was married to John Rawlins. Harriet Maeers was married to William Street. Three of the six houses first appear on the electoral register in 1904: Daniel Mescal “Ferncroft” William Francis Street “Hillsboro” Henry Elkin “Montrose” By the 1905 electoral register all six are occupied: Daniel Mescal “St Senans” Henry Robert Honeywood “Grasmere” John Rawlins “Iveydene” William Francis Street “Hillsboro” Walter Ernest Manning “St Hilda” Henry Elkin “Montrose” By 1906 house numbers replace names: Daniel Mescal 70 Henry Robert Honeywood 68 John Rawlins 66 William Francis Street 64 Walter Ernest Manning 62 Henry Elkin 60 It’s not clear whether number 70 changed from “Ferncroft” to “St Senans” or possibly Daniel Mescal moved houses. In any event, it can be seen that Robert Maeers’ two daughters are living in numbers 64 and 66, with, according to local information, an interconnecting door. In the 1911 census William Street is shown as a banker’s clerk. John Rawlins is a chartering clerk in shipping. Robert Maeers and his wife are also living at this address, Robert being shown as a retired builder. By 1939 all the houses are in different ownership except number 60, where the Elkins are still in residence. Reply
stephen garraway Treverton Street, W10 Added: 13 Nov 2022 13:56 GMT	Martin Street, Latimer Road I was born at St Charlottes and lived at 14, Martin Street, Latimer Road W10 until I was 4 years old when we moved to the east end. It was my Nan Grant’s House and she was the widow of George Frederick Grant. She had two sons, George and Frederick, and one daughter, my mother Margaret Patricia. The downstairs flat where we lived had two floors, the basement and the ground floor. The upper two floors were rented to a Scot and his family, the Smiths. He had red hair. The lights and cooker were gas and there was one cold tap over a Belfast sink. A tin bath hung on the wall. The toilet was outside in the yard. This was concreted over and faced the the rear of the opposite terraces. All the yards were segregated by high brick walls. The basement had the a "best" room with a large , dark fireplace with two painted metal Alsation ornaments and it was very dark, cold and little used. The street lights were gas and a man came round twice daily to turn them on and off using a large pole with a hook and a lighted torch on the end. I remember men coming round the streets with carts selling hot chestnuts and muffins and also the hurdy gurdy man with his instrument and a monkey in a red jacket. I also remember the first time I saw a black man and my mother pulling me away from him. He had a Trilby and pale Mackintosh so he must of been one of the first of the Windrush people. I seem to recall he had a thin moustache. Uncle George had a small delivery lorry but mum lost touch with him and his family. Uncle Fred went to Peabody Buildings near ST.Pauls. My Nan was moved to a maisonette in White City around 1966, and couldn’t cope with electric lights, cookers and heating and she lost all of her neighbourhood friends. Within six months she had extreme dementia and died in a horrible ward in Tooting Bec hospital a year or so later. An awful way to end her life, being moved out of her lifelong neighbourhood even though it was slums. Reply
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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

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

British Museum British Museum was a station on the Central line, located in Holborn and taking its name from the nearby British Museum in Great Russell Street.

British Museum

Fairyland During the period leading up to and during the First World War, 92 Tottenham Court Road was the location of a shooting range called Fairyland.

Fairyland

Russell Square Russell Square station, now on London’s Piccadilly Line, was opened by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway on 15 December 1906.

Russell Square

Scala Theatre Scala Theatre was a theatre in London, sited on Charlotte Street, off Tottenham Court Road. The first theatre on the site opened in 1772, and was demolished in 1969, after being destroyed by fire.

Scala Theatre

The Horse Hospital Built as stabling for the sick horses of cabbies, The Horse Hospital is now a unique Grade II listed arts venue in Bloomsbury.

The Horse Hospital

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Abbey Place, WC1H Abbey Place was in the centre of Bloomsbury, off what was originally the west side of Little Coram Street and directly behind the Russell Institution on Great Coram Street.

Abbey Place, WC1H

Adeline Place, WC1B Adeline Place was named after Adeline Marie Russell.

Adeline Place, WC1B

Alfred Mews, WC1E Alfred Mews is situated off Tottenham Court Road, running behind the gardens of North Crescent.

Alfred Mews, WC1E

Alfred Place, WC1E Alfred Place was built in 1806 by a Marylebone stonemason called John Waddilove who named it after his son Alfred.

Alfred Place, WC1E

Bainbridge Street, WC2H Bainbridge Street takes its name from Henry Bainbridge, a local resident in the 17th century.

Bainbridge Street, WC2H

Barter Street, WC1A Barter Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Barter Street, WC1A

Bayley Street, WC1B Bayley Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area.

Bayley Street, WC1B

Bedford Avenue, WC1B Bedford Avenue is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area.

Bedford Avenue, WC1B

Bedford Place, WC1B Bedford Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area.

Bedford Place, WC1B

Bedford Square, WC1B Bedford Square was designed as a unified architectural composition in 1775-6 by Thomas Leverton.

Bedford Square, WC1B

Bedford Way, WC1H Bedford Way is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area.

Bedford Way, WC1H

Bernard Street, WC1N Bernard Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area.

Bernard Street, WC1N

Berners Mews, W1T Berners Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Berners Mews, W1T

Berners Street, W1D William Berners completed building in 1763 what is today Berners Street.

Berners Street, W1D

Bird Street, W1T Bird Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Bird Street, W1T

Bloomsbury Place, WC1B The name of Bloomsbury Place is derived from William Blemund.

Bloomsbury Place, WC1B

Bloomsbury Square, WC1A The 4th Earl of Southampton was granted a building license for the construction of Bloomsbury Square in 1661.

Bloomsbury Square, WC1A

Bloomsbury Street, WC1A Bloomsbury Street runs from Gower Street in the north to the junction of New Oxford Street and Shaftesbury Avenue in the south.

Bloomsbury Street, WC1A

Bloomsbury Way, WC1A Bloomsbury Way is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Bloomsbury Way, WC1A

Bristol House, WC1B Residential block

Bristol House, WC1B

Bromley Place, W1T Bromley Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Bromley Place, W1T

Brunswick Centre, WC1N The Brunswick Centre is a grade II listed residential and shopping centre in Bloomsbury.

Brunswick Centre, WC1N

Brunswick Shopping Centre, WC1N Brunswick Shopping Centre is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area.

Brunswick Shopping Centre, WC1N

Brunswick Square, WC1N Brunswick Square is the result of a sale of land by the Foundling Hospital.

Brunswick Square, WC1N

Bury Place, WC1A Bury Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Bury Place, WC1A

Byng Place, WC1E Byng Place is a road in the WC1E postcode area

Byng Place, WC1E

Capper Street, WC1E Capper Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area.

Capper Street, WC1E

Charlotte Mews, W1T Charlotte Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Charlotte Mews, W1T

Charlotte Place, W1T Charlotte Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Charlotte Place, W1T

Charlotte Street, W1T Charlotte Street was laid out in the mid 18th century on open fields.

Charlotte Street, W1T

Chenies Mews, WC1E Chenies Mews is a road in the WC1E postcode area

Chenies Mews, WC1E

Chenies Street, WC1E Chenies Street takes its name from the Buckinghamshire village where since 1556 members of the Russell family have been buried.

Chenies Street, WC1E

Chitty Street, W1T Chitty Street runs between Charlotte Street and Whitfield Street.

Chitty Street, W1T

Coach Road, W1T Coach Road is a road in the NW1 postcode area

Coach Road, W1T

Colonnade, WC1N Colonnade is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area.

Colonnade, WC1N

Colville Place, W1T Colville Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Colville Place, W1T

Coptic Street, WC2H Coptic Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Coptic Street, WC2H

Coram Street, WC1N Coram Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area.

Coram Street, WC1N

Cosmo Place, WC1B Cosmo Place is a road in the WC1B postcode area

Cosmo Place, WC1B

Darwin Walk, WC1E Darwin Walk is a road in the WC1E postcode area

Darwin Walk, WC1E

Dyott Street, WC1A Dyott Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Dyott Street, WC1A

Eastcastle Street, W1T The portion of Eastcastle Street to the east of Wells Street originally belonged to the Berners Estate.

Eastcastle Street, W1T

Evelyn Yard, W1T Evelyn Yard is a road in the W1T postcode area

Evelyn Yard, W1T

First Floor, W1T First Floor is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

First Floor, W1T

Foundling Court, WC1N Foundling Court is sited on Marchmont Street

Foundling Court, WC1N

Galen Place, WC1A Galen Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Galen Place, WC1A

Gilbert Place, WC1A Gilbert Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Gilbert Place, WC1A

Goodge Place, W1T Goodge Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Goodge Place, W1T

Goodge Street, W1T Goodge Street was named after John Goodge a carpenter who along with his two nephews developed Crab Tree Fields to form Goodge Street in 1740.

Goodge Street, W1T

Gordon Mansions, WC1E Gordon Mansions is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area.

Gordon Mansions, WC1E

Gordon Square, WC1H The completion of Thomas Cubitt’s Gordon Square in 1860 marked the final development of Bloomsbury.

Gordon Square, WC1H

Gower Street, WC1E Gower Street is named after Gertrude Leveson-Gower, the wife of John Russell, the 4th Duke of Bedford.

Gower Street, WC1E

Grafton Way, WC1E Grafton Way was formerly Grafton Street.

Grafton Way, WC1E

Great Russell Street, WC1A Great Russell Street commemorates the marriage of the daughter of the 4th Earl of Southampton to William Russell in 1669.

Great Russell Street, WC1A

Grenville Street, WC1N Grenville Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area.

Grenville Street, WC1N

Gresse Street, W1T Gresse Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Gresse Street, W1T

Guilford Street, WC1B Guilford Street is a road in the WC1B postcode area

Guilford Street, WC1B

Hanway Place, W1T Hanway Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Hanway Place, W1T

Hanway Street, W1D Hanway Street was named after Major John Hanway.

Hanway Street, W1D

Herbrand Street, WC1N Herbrand Street is in the east of Bloomsbury, running south from Tavistock Place to Guilford Street.

Herbrand Street, WC1N

Howland Street, W1T Howland Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Howland Street, W1T

Huntley Street, WC1E Huntley Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area.

Huntley Street, WC1E

Kingsgate Est, WC1B A street within the WC1B postcode

Kingsgate Est, WC1B

Lamp Office Court, WC1N Lamp Office Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area.

Lamp Office Court, WC1N

Little Guildford Street, WC1N Little Guildford Street was the middle part of what is now Herbrand Street, between Great Coram Street and Bernard Street, on the western edge of the Foundling estate.

Little Guildford Street, WC1N

Little Russel Street, WC1A Little Russel Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Little Russel Street, WC1A

Little Russell Street, WC1A Little Russell Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Little Russell Street, WC1A

Malet Place, WC1E Malet Place is a road in the WC1E postcode area

Malet Place, WC1E

Malet Street, WC1E Sir Edward Malet was married to Lady Ermyntrude Sackville Russell, daughter of Francis Russell who owned much of the surrounding area.

Malet Street, WC1E

Marchmont Street, WC1N Marchmont Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area.

Marchmont Street, WC1N

Midford Place, W1T Midford Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Midford Place, W1T

Montague Place, WC1E Montague Place was developed in the decade after 1800.

Montague Place, WC1E

Montague Street, WC1B Montague Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area.

Montague Street, WC1B

Mortimer Market, WC1E Mortimer Market is a road in the W1T postcode area

Mortimer Market, WC1E

Morwell Street, WC1B Morwell Street is a road in the WC1B postcode area

Morwell Street, WC1B

Museum Street, WC1A Museum Street is so-named since it approaches the main entrance of the British Museum.

Museum Street, WC1A

Neals Yard, WC1N Neals Yard is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area.

Neals Yard, WC1N

New Oxford Street, WC1A New Oxford Street was built in 1840 to ease congestion in St Giles High Street.

New Oxford Street, WC1A

New Oxford Street, WC2H New Oxford Street is a road in the WC2H postcode area

New Oxford Street, WC2H

Newman Passage, W1T Newman Passage is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Newman Passage, W1T

Newman Street, W1T Newman Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Newman Street, W1T

North Crescent, WC1E North Crescent is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area.

North Crescent, WC1E

Old Glocester Street, WC1N Old Glocester Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area.

Old Glocester Street, WC1N

Old Glouster Street, WC1N Old Glouster Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area.

Old Glouster Street, WC1N

Peabody Buildings, WC1N Peabody Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area.

Peabody Buildings, WC1N

Percy Street, WC1B Percy Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Percy Street, WC1B

Pied Bull Court, WC1A Pied Bull Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Pied Bull Court, WC1A

Pied Bull Yard, WC1A Pied Bull Yard is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Pied Bull Yard, WC1A

Queen Annes Square, WC1N Queen Annes Square is a road in the SE1 postcode area

Queen Annes Square, WC1N

Queen Square, WC1N Queen Square was laid out by speculator Nicholas Barbon.

Queen Square, WC1N

Queen’s Yard, W1T Queen’s Yard is a road in the W1T postcode area

Queen’s Yard, W1T

Rathbone Square, W1T Rathbone Square is a location in London.

Rathbone Square, W1T

Rathbone Street, W1T Rathbone Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Rathbone Street, W1T

Ridgmount Gardens, WC1E Ridgmount Gardens is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area.

Ridgmount Gardens, WC1E

Ridgmount Street, WC1E Ridgmount Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area.

Ridgmount Street, WC1E

Russell Court, WC1B Russell Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area.

Russell Court, WC1B

Russell Square House, WC1B Residential block

Russell Square House, WC1B

Russell Square, WC1B Russell Square is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area.

Russell Square, WC1B

Russell Square, WC1B Russell Square was laid out from 1800 by James Burton following the demolition of Bedford House, which originally stood on the site surrounded by gardens and fields.

Russell Square, WC1B

Salt Yard, W1T A street within the W1T postcode

Salt Yard, W1T

Scala Street, W1T Scala Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Scala Street, W1T

South Cloisters, WC1H South Cloisters is a road in the WC1H postcode area

South Cloisters, WC1H

Southampton Place, WC1A Southampton Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Southampton Place, WC1A

Southampton Row, WC1B Southampton Row is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area.

Southampton Row, WC1B

Stedham Place, WC2H Stedham Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Stedham Place, WC2H

Stephen Mews, W1T Stephen Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Stephen Mews, W1T

Stephen Street, W1T Stephen Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Stephen Street, W1T

Store Street, WC1E Store Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area.

Store Street, WC1E

Streatham Street, WC1A Streatham Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area.

Streatham Street, WC1A

Tavistock Square, WC1H Tavistock Square was built by property developer James Burton and the master builder Thomas Cubitt for Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford.

Tavistock Square, WC1H

Third Floor, WC1E Third Floor is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area.

Third Floor, WC1E

Thornhaugh Street, WC1B Thornhaugh Street is a street in London

Thornhaugh Street, WC1B

Thornhaugh Street, WC1H Thornhaugh Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1H postal area.

Thornhaugh Street, WC1H

Torrington Place, WC1E Torrington Place was developed by James Sim in partnership with his two sons.

Torrington Place, WC1E

Torrington Square, WC1H Torrington Square was originally laid out as part of the Bedford Estate development in 1821-25.

Torrington Square, WC1H

Tottenham Court Road, W1T Tottenham Court Road is a major road running from the junction of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, north to Euston Road - a distance of about three-quarters of a mile.

Tottenham Court Road, W1T

Tottenham Mews, W1T Tottenham Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Tottenham Mews, W1T

Tottenham Street, W1T Tottenham Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Tottenham Street, W1T

University Street, WC1E University Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area.

University Street, WC1E

Victoria House, WC1B Residential block

Victoria House, WC1B

Willoughby Street, WC1B Willoughby Street was formerly known as both Vine Street and Wooburn Street.

Willoughby Street, WC1B

Windmill Street, W1T Windmill Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area.

Windmill Street, W1T

Witley Court, WC1H Witley Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1N postal area.

Witley Court, WC1H

Woburn Mews, WC1H Woburn Mews ran parallel between Woburn Place and Upper Bedford Place to the west of Woburn Place.

Woburn Mews, WC1H

Woburn Place, WC1H Woburn Place is situated on the Bedford estate, running north from the east of Russell Square to the east of Tavistock Square.

Woburn Place, WC1H

Woburn Square, WC1H Woburn Square is just north of the centre of Bloomsbury.

Woburn Square, WC1H

NEARBY PUBS

Bloomsbury Tavern

Bourne & Hollingsworth

Museum Inn/Astor Museum

Museum Tavern

My Old Dutch

Newman Arms The Newman Arms has been a Fitzrovia fixture for centuries.

Newman Arms

Night and Day Bar Imperial Hotel

One Tun

The London Cocktail Club

The Montague on the Gardens

The Old Crown

The Plough

The Queens Larder

The Slice Bar (Cupola House)

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Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, in central London, between Euston Road and Holborn, developed by the Russell family in the 17th and 18th centuries into a fashionable residential area.

The earliest record of what would become Bloomsbury is the 1086 Domesday Book, which records that the area had vineyards and ’wood for 100 pigs’. But it is not until 1201 that the name Bloomsbury is first noted, when William de Blemond, a Norman landowner, acquired the land.

The name Bloomsbury is a development from Blemondisberi – the bury, or manor, of Blemond. An 1878 publication, Old and New London: Volume 4, mentions the idea that the area was named after a village called Lomesbury which formerly stood where Bloomsbury Square is now, though this piece of folk etymology is now discredited.

At the end of the 14th century Edward III acquired Blemond’s manor, and passed it on to the Carthusian monks of the London Charterhouse, who kept the area mostly rural.

In the 16th century, with the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII took the land back into the possession of the Crown, and granted it to Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton.

In the early 1660s, the Earl of Southampton constructed what eventually became Bloomsbury Square. The area was laid out mainly in the 18th century, largely by landowners such as Wriothesley Russell, 3rd Duke of Bedford, who built Bloomsbury Market, which opened in 1730. The major development of the squares that we see today started in about 1800 when Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford removed Bedford House and developed the land to the north with Russell Square as its centrepiece.

Historically, Bloomsbury is associated with the arts, education, and medicine. The area gives its name to the Bloomsbury Group of artists, the most famous of whom was Virginia Woolf, who met in private homes in the area in the early 1900s, and to the lesser known Bloomsbury Gang of Whigs formed in 1765 by John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford.

The publisher Faber & Faber used to be located in Queen Square, though at the time T. S. Eliot was editor the offices were in Tavistock Square. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in John Millais’s parents’ house on Gower Street in 1848.

The Bloomsbury Festival was launched in 2006 when local resident Roma Backhouse was commissioned to mark the re-opening of the Brunswick Centre, a residential and shopping area.

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Theatreland, Shaftesbury Avenue Credit: IG/my.wandering.journey TUM image id: 1653838404 Licence: CC BY 2.0	BT Tower The Post Office Tower - now known as the BT Tower - opened in the Fitzrovia area of central London in 1965. The tower’s main structure was 177 metres high. A further section of aerial rigging brought the total height to 191m. It was the tallest building in the UK until London’s NatWest Tower opened in 1980. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1481989234 Licence:	The Prince of Wales Theatre in 1903 shortly before its demolition for the building of the Scala Theatre in 1904. Credit: Caroline Blomfield TUM image id: 1492875482 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Fairyland, 92 Tottenham Court Road (1905) Fairyland was an amusement arcade with a shooting range, owned and run by Henry Stanton Morley (1875-1916) during the period leading up to and during the First World War. It was closed after (unintentionally according to its owners), it was used to practice political assassinations. Notably, attempts on the life of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (planned but not carried out) and Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie (carried out). TUM image id: 1490541720 Licence:	Transmission TUM image id: 1509553463 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Piccadilly Theatre (2007) Credit: Turquoisefish TUM image id: 1556885906 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The British Library TUM image id: 1482066417 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Tottenham Court Road (1927) TUM image id: 1556973109 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Royal Opera House, Bow Street frontage, with the statue of Dame Ninette de Valois in the foreground Credit: Russ London TUM image id: 1557227200 Licence:	London Hippodrome in 2017 Credit: Ethan Doyle White TUM image id: 1528649183 Licence: CC BY 2.0
De Hems, 11 Macclesfield Street and the entrance to Horse & Dolphin Yard. Credit: Colonel Warden TUM image id: 1526658322 Licence: CC BY 2.0	St. James Gardens Credit: Google TUM image id: 1530005129 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The March Of The Guards To Finchley - outside the Adam and Eve Tea Rooms. Credit: William Hogarth TUM image id: 1488380896 Licence: CC BY 2.0	British Museum station Credit: London Transport Museum TUM image id: 1603458310 Licence:	Trident Studios was located at 17 St Anne’s Court, Soho between 1968 and 1981. "My Name is Jack" by Manfred Mann was recorded at Trident in March 1968, and helped launch the studio’s reputation. Later that year, the Beatles recorded their song "Hey Jude" there and part of their self-titled double album (also known as the "White Album"). Other well-known albums and songs recorded at Trident include Elton John’s "Your Song", David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Lou Reed’s Transformer, Carly Simon’s No Secrets, and Queen’s albums Queen, Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack. Other artists recorded at Trident included the Bee Gees, Chris de Burgh, Frank Zappa, Genesis, Brand X, James Taylor, Joan Armatrading, Joe Cocker, Golden Earring, Harry Nilsson, Kiss, Tygers of Pan Tang, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Marc Almond, Marc and the Mambas, Soft Cell, Rick Springfield, the Rolling Stones, Rush, Free, Thin Lizzy, Tina Turner, T.Rex, Van der Graaf Generator, Yes and John Entwistle. Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1642419398 Licence:

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Theatreland, Shaftesbury Avenue
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The Prince of Wales Theatre in 1903 shortly before its demolition for the building of the Scala Theatre in 1904.
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Fairyland, 92 Tottenham Court Road (1905) Fairyland was an amusement arcade with a shooting range, owned and run by Henry Stanton Morley (1875-1916) during the period leading up to and during the First World War. It was closed after (unintentionally according to its owners), it was used to practice political assassinations. Notably, attempts on the life of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (planned but not carried out) and Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie (carried out).
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Tottenham Court Road (1927)
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Trident Studios was located at 17 St Anne’s Court, Soho between 1968 and 1981. "My Name is Jack" by Manfred Mann was recorded at Trident in March 1968, and helped launch the studio’s reputation. Later that year, the Beatles recorded their song "Hey Jude" there and part of their self-titled double album (also known as the "White Album"). Other well-known albums and songs recorded at Trident include Elton John’s "Your Song", David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Lou Reed’s Transformer, Carly Simon’s No Secrets, and Queen’s albums Queen, Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack. Other artists recorded at Trident included the Bee Gees, Chris de Burgh, Frank Zappa, Genesis, Brand X, James Taylor, Joan Armatrading, Joe Cocker, Golden Earring, Harry Nilsson, Kiss, Tygers of Pan Tang, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Marc Almond, Marc and the Mambas, Soft Cell, Rick Springfield, the Rolling Stones, Rush, Free, Thin Lizzy, Tina Turner, T.Rex, Van der Graaf Generator, Yes and John Entwistle.
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Centre Point, a controversial building in New Oxford Street comprising a 34-storey tower (2005) Constructed from 1963 to 1966, it was one of the first skyscrapers in London, and as of 2009 was the city’s joint 27th-tallest building. It stood empty from the time of its completion until 1975. In 2015 it was converted from office space to luxury flats.
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Endell Street towards Long Acre, 2015
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10 Gower Street, Bloomsbury
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Confectionery Shop, corner of Greek St and Shaftesbury Ave, c. 1930
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