Little Turnstile, WC2A

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

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
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
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
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
Bruce McTavish Lambeth North Added: 11 Mar 2021 11:37 GMT	Kennington Road Lambeth North station was opened as Kennington Road and then Westminster Bridge Road before settling on its final name. It has a wonderful Leslie Green design. 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
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
Tom Blackfriars Added: 21 May 2021 23:07 GMT	Blackfriars What is, or was, Bodies Bridge? 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
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
sam Burdett Street, SE1 Added: 31 Dec 2021 00:54 GMT	Burdett Street, SE1 I was on 2nd July 1952, in Burdett chambers (which is also known as Burdett buildings)on Burdett street 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

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

danny currie William Miller’s Yard Added: 30 Nov 2022 18:39 GMT	dads yard ron currie had a car breaking yard in millers yard back in the 60s good old days Reply
Lynette beardwood Ebury Street, SW1W Added: 29 Nov 2022 20:53 GMT	Spy’s Club Topham’s Hotel at 24-28 Ebury Street was called the Ebury Court Hotel. Its first proprietor was a Mrs Topham. In WW2 it was a favourite watering hole for the various intelligence organisations based in the Pimlico area. The first woman infiltrated into France in 1942, FANY Yvonne Rudellat, was recruited by the Special Operations Executive while working there. She died in Bergen Belsen in April 1945. Reply
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
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
Conder Street, E14 Added: 31 Oct 2022 18:47 GMT	Memories I lived at 7 Conder Street in a prefab from roughly 1965 to 1971 approx - happy memories- sad to see it is no more ? Reply
Eve Glover Holmesley Road, WD6 Added: 22 Oct 2022 09:28 GMT	Shenley Road Shenley Road is the main street in Borehamwood where the Job Centre and Blue Arrow were located Reply
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

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

Houghton Street (1906) A greengrocer’s on the corner of Houghton Street and Clare Market (behind The Strand) in 1906 just before demolition.

Houghton Street (1906)

Lisle’s Tennis Court Lisle’s Tennis Court was a building off Portugal Street in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London.

Lisle’s Tennis Court

Old and New London: Temple Bar Temple Bar was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren, in 1670–72.

Old and New London: Temple Bar

St Giles St Giles is a district of central London, at the southern tip of the London Borough of Camden.

St Giles

Staple Inn Staple Inn is London’s only surviving sixteenth-century domestic building, situated on the south side of High Holborn.

Staple Inn

Temple Bar Temple Bar is the point in London where Fleet Street, City of London, becomes the Strand, Westminster, and where the City of London traditionally erected a barrier to regulate trade into the city.

Temple Bar

The 1860s map of London "Stanford’s Library Map of London and its Suburbs" was published in 1862

The 1860s map of London

Weston’s Music Hall Weston’s Music Hall was a music hall and theatre that opened in 1857. In 1906, the theatre became known as the Holborn Empire.

Weston’s Music Hall

NEARBY STREETS

Africa House, WC2A Residential block

Africa House, WC2A

Andrews Crosse, EC4A Andrews Crosse stood on the site of the courtyard of the former Andrews Crosse Inn.

Andrews Crosse, EC4A

Arne Street, WC2E Arne Street was named after the 18th century composer Thomas Arne, who was born near here.

Arne Street, WC2E

Atkin Building, WC1R Atkin Building is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Atkin Building, WC1R

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

Barter Street, WC1A

Beaumont Buildings, WC2E Beaumont Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Beaumont Buildings, WC2E

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

Bedford Place, WC1B

Bedford Row, WC1R Bedford Row runs between Theobalds Road and Sandland Street.

Bedford Row, WC1R

Bell Yard, EC4A Bell Yard is a small lane off the Strand where the Bell hostel once stood.

Bell Yard, EC4A

Betterton Street, WC2E Betterton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Betterton Street, WC2E

Bishop’s Court, WC2A Bishop’s Court lies off Chancery Lane.

Bishop’s Court, WC2A

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

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

Boswell Street, WC1N

Bow Street, WC2B Bow Street was built in the shape of a bow between 1633 and 1677.

Bow Street, WC2B

Bristol House, WC1B Residential block

Bristol House, WC1B

Broad Court, WC2B Broad Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Broad Court, WC2B

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

Bury Place, WC1A

Carey Street, WC2A Carey Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Carey Street, WC2A

Catton Street, WC2B Catton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Catton Street, WC2B

Chancery Lane, WC2A Chancery Lane has formed the western boundary of the City of London since 1994, having previously been divided between the London boroughs of Westminster and Camden.

Chancery Lane, WC2A

Chichester Rents, WC2A Chichester Rents is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Chichester Rents, WC2A

Clare Market, WC2A Clare Market is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Clare Market, WC2A

Clement’s Inn, WC2R Clement’s Inn is a road in the WC2R postcode area

Clement’s Inn, WC2R

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

Coptic Street, WC2H

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

Cosmo Place, WC1B

Crown Court, WC2E Crown Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Crown Court, WC2E

Crystal Wharf, WC2B A street within the WC2B postcode

Crystal Wharf, WC2B

Dane Street, WC1R Dane Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Dane Street, WC1R

Dombey Street, WC1N Dombey Street is a road in the WC1N postcode area

Dombey Street, WC1N

Drury Lane, WC2B Named from Sir William Drury, Knight of the Garter in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, who owned land on its site.

Drury Lane, WC2B

Dryden Street, WC2B Dryden Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2E postal area.

Dryden Street, WC2B

Dudley Court, WC2H Dudley Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Dudley Court, WC2H

Eagle Street, WC1R Eagle Street runs parallel to High Holborn, one block north.

Eagle Street, WC1R

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

Emerald Street, WC1N

Endell Street, WC2H Endell Street, originally known as Belton Street, is a street that runs from High Holborn in the north to Long Acre and Bow Street in the south.

Endell Street, WC2H

Field Court, WC1R Field Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Field Court, WC1R

Fisher Street, WC1R Fisher Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Fisher Street, WC1R

Fulwood Place, WC1R Fulwood Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area.

Fulwood Place, WC1R

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

Galen Place, WC1A

Gate Street, WC2A Gate Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Gate Street, WC2A

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

Gilbert Place, WC1A

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

Gloucester Road, WC1N

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

Grape Street, WC2H

Grays Inn Place, WC1R Grays Inn Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Grays Inn Place, WC1R

Grays Inn Square Chambers, WC1R Grays Inn Square Chambers is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Grays Inn Square Chambers, WC1R

Grays Inn Square, WC1R Grays Inn Square is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Grays Inn Square, WC1R

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

Great James Street, WC1N

Great Queen Street, WC2B Great Queen Street is a continuation of Long Acre from Drury Lane to Kingsway.

Great Queen Street, WC2B

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

Great Turnstile, WC1V This is a street in the WC1V postcode area

Great Turnstile, WC1V

Hand Court, WC1R Hand Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area.

Hand Court, WC1R

Hardwicke Building, WC2A Hardwicke Building is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Hardwicke Building, WC2A

High Holborn, WC1V High Holborn was part of the old road from Newgate and the Tower to the gallows at Tyburn.

High Holborn, WC1V

High Holborn, WC2B High Holborn is a road which is the highest point in the City of London - 22 metres above sea level.

High Holborn, WC2B

High Holborn, WC2B High Holborn is a road in the WC2A postcode area

High Holborn, WC2B

Houghton Square, WC2B Houghton Square is a road in the SW9 postcode area

Houghton Square, WC2B

Houghton Street, WC2A Houghton Street is a street which has been ’demoted’ over time.

Houghton Street, WC2A

Jockeys Fields, WC1R Jockeys Fields is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Jockeys Fields, WC1R

Kean Street, WC2B Kean Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Kean Street, WC2B

Keeley Street, WC2B Keeley Street has a dual history

Keeley Street, WC2B

Kemble Street, WC2B Kemble Street is a road in the WC2B postcode area

Kemble Street, WC2B

Kingsgate Est, WC1B A street within the WC1B postcode

Kingsgate Est, WC1B

Kingsgate Street, WC1R Kingsgate Street ran from High Holborn to Theobald’s Road.

Kingsgate Street, WC1R

Kingsway, WC2A Kingsway is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Kingsway, WC2A

Kingsway, WC2B This is a street in the WC2A postcode area

Kingsway, WC2B

Lamb’s Conduit Passage, WC1R This is a street in the WC1R postcode area

Lamb’s Conduit Passage, WC1R

Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2A Lincoln’s Inn Fields is the largest public square in London, laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder William Newton.

Lincoln’s Inn Fields, WC2A

Lion Court, WC1R Lion Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area.

Lion Court, WC1R

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

London Silver Vaults, WC1V London Silver Vaults is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

London Silver Vaults, WC1V

Macklin Street, WC2B Macklin Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Macklin Street, WC2B

Martlett Court, WC2E Martlett Court is a road in the WC2B postcode area

Martlett Court, WC2E

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

Monmouth Street, WC2H

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

Montague Street, WC1B

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

Museum Street, WC1A

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

Neal Street, WC2H

Neals Yard, WC2H Neals Yard is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Neals Yard, WC2H

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

New North Street, 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

New Square Passage, WC2A This is a street in the WC2A postcode area

New Square Passage, WC2A

New Square, WC2A New Square is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

New Square, WC2A

Newton Street, WC1V Newton Street is named for Isaac Newton, scientist and mathematician.

Newton Street, WC1V

Nottingham Court, WC2H Nottingham Court is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Nottingham Court, WC2H

Odhams Walk, WC2H Odhams Walk is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Odhams Walk, WC2H

Old Buildings, WC2A Old Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Old Buildings, WC2A

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

Old Glocester Street, WC1N

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

Old Gloucester 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

Old Square, WC2A Old Square is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Old Square, WC2A

Orange Street, WC1R Orange Street disappeared from the map to be replaced by St Martin’s College of Art (now Central Saint Martins).

Orange Street, WC1R

Ormond Close, WC1N Ormond Close is a road in the WC1N postcode area

Ormond Close, WC1N

Parker Mews, WC2B Parker Mews is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Parker Mews, WC2B

Parker Street, WC2B Parker Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Parker Street, WC2B

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

Portpool Lane, EC1N Portpool Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area.

Portpool Lane, EC1N

Portsmouth Street, WC2A Portsmouth Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Portsmouth Street, WC2A

Portugal Street, WC2A Portugal Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Portugal Street, WC2A

Princeton Street, WC1R Princeton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Princeton Street, WC1R

Procter Street, WC1V Procter Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area.

Procter Street, WC1V

Proctor Street, WC1V Proctor Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area.

Proctor Street, WC1V

Quality Court, WC2A Quality Court is a courtyard, built around 1700.

Quality Court, WC2A

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

Queen Square, WC1N

Raymond Buildings, WC1R Raymond Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Raymond Buildings, WC1R

Red Lion Square, WC1R Red Lion Square was built from the late 1680s by speculator Nicholas Barbon.

Red Lion Square, WC1R

Red Lion Street, WC1R Red Lion Street connects High Holborn with Theobalds Road.

Red Lion Street, WC1R

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

Richbell Place, WC1N

Rolls Passage, WC2A Rolls Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.

Rolls Passage, WC2A

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

Russell Square, WC1B

Sandland Street, WC1R Sandland Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Sandland Street, WC1R

Sardinia House, WC2A Sardinia House can be found on Lincoln’s Inn Fields

Sardinia House, WC2A

Sardinia Street, WC2A Sardinia Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Sardinia Street, WC2A

Sardinia Street, WC2B Sardinia Street, formerly Duke Street, was a street that ran from Prince’s Street in the south to the western side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields in the north.

Sardinia Street, WC2B

Serle Street, WC2A Serle Street is a road in the WC2A postcode area

Serle Street, WC2A

Seven Dials, WC2H Seven Dials was built on the site of the Cock-and-Pie Fields, named for a nearby inn.

Seven Dials, WC2H

Sheffield Street, WC2A Sheffield Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Sheffield Street, WC2A

Shelton Street, WC2E Shelton Street is a road in the WC2B postcode area

Shelton Street, WC2E

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

Shelton Street, WC2H

Shorts Gardens, WC2H Shorts Gardens is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Shorts Gardens, WC2H

Sicilian Avenue, WC1V Sicilian Avenue is a shopping parade that diagonally runs in between Southampton Row and Bloomsbury Way.

Sicilian Avenue, WC1V

Silver Vaults, WC1V Silver Vaults is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Silver Vaults, WC1V

South Square, WC1X South Square is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

South Square, WC1X

Southampton Buildings, WC2A Southampton Buildings marks the site of the house of the 4th Earl of Southampton, son of Shakespeare’s patron.

Southampton Buildings, WC2A

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

Southampton Row, WC1V Southampton Row is a road in the WC1V postcode area

Southampton Row, WC1V

St Clement’s Passage, WC2A St Clement’s Passage is a road in the WC2A postcode area

St Clement’s Passage, WC2A

St Clements Lane, WC2A St Clements Lane is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

St Clements Lane, WC2A

St Giles High Street, WC2H St Giles High Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

St Giles High Street, WC2H

St Giles House, WC2B Residential block

St Giles House, WC2B

Staple Inn Buildings North, WC1X Staple Inn Buildings North is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area.

Staple Inn Buildings North, WC1X

Staple Inn Buildings, WC1V Staple Inn Buildings is part of historic Staple Inn.

Staple Inn Buildings, WC1V

Staple Inn Buildings, WC1X Staple Inn Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC1V postal area.

Staple Inn Buildings, WC1X

Star Yard, WC2A Star Yard is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Star Yard, WC2A

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

Stedham Place, WC2H

Stone Buildings, WC2A Stone Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC2A postal area.

Stone Buildings, WC2A

Strand, EC4A This is a street in the EC4A postcode area

Strand, EC4A

Stukeley Street, WC2B Stukeley Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Stukeley Street, WC2B

The Arcade, WC2B The Arcade is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

The Arcade, WC2B

Theobald’s Road, WC1N Theobald’s Road is a road in the WC1R postcode area

Theobald’s Road, WC1N

Theobalds Road, WC1N Theobalds Road is one of the streets of London in the WC1X postal area.

Theobalds Road, WC1N

Thomas Neal Centre, WC2H Thomas Neal Centre is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area.

Thomas Neal Centre, WC2H

Tybalds Close, WC1N Tybalds Close is a location in London.

Tybalds Close, WC1N

Vere Street, WC2B Vere Street was a street in the Lincoln’s Inn Fields area

Vere Street, WC2B

Verulam Buildings, WC1R Verulam Buildings is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Verulam Buildings, WC1R

Verulam Street, WC1X Verulam Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1X postal area.

Verulam Street, WC1X

Victoria House, WC1B Residential block

Victoria House, WC1B

Warwick Court, WC1R Warwick Court is one of the streets of London in the WC1R postal area.

Warwick Court, WC1R

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

West Central Street, WC2H

Whetstone Park, WC2A Whetstone Park is a road in the WC2A postcode area

Whetstone Park, WC2A

Wild Court, WC2B Wild Court leads west from the Kingsway.

Wild Court, WC2B

Wild Street, WC2B Wild Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2B postal area.

Wild Street, WC2B

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

Willoughby Street, WC1B

Yorkshire Grey Yard, WC1V Yorkshire Grey Yard lies off of Eagle Street, WC1

Yorkshire Grey Yard, WC1V

NEARBY PUBS

All Bar One Holborn This is a bar which was still existing in 2018.

All Bar One Holborn

Bloomsbury Tavern

Cella Karaoke Lounge

Circus (restaurant) Circus is a restaurant on Endell Street.

Museum Inn/Astor Museum

Secrets

Sway

The Bountiful Cow

The Cambridge Theatre

The Crown

The Dolphin

The Enterprise

The Hon. Soc. Of Gray’s Inn

The London Cocktail Club

The Montague on the Gardens

The Polish Bar (Na Zdrowie)

The Sun

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Holborn

Hol^born is both an area and also the name of the area’s principal street, known as High Holborn between St. Giles’s High Street and Gray’s Inn Road and then Hol^born Viaduct between Hol^born Circus and Newgate Street.

The area’s first mention is in a charter of Westminster Abbey, by King Edgar, dated to 959. This mentions ’the old wooden church of St Andrew’ (St Andrew, Hol^born). The name Holborn may be derived from the Middle English hol for hollow, and bourne, a brook, referring to the River Fleet as it ran through a steep valley to the east.

It was at first outside the City’s jurisdiction and a part of Ossulstone Hundred in Middlesex. The original Bars were the boundary of the City of London from 1223, when the City’s jurisdiction was extended beyond the Walls, at Newgate, into the suburb here, as far as the point where the Bars where erected, until 1994 when the border moved to the junction of Chancery Lane. In 1394 the Ward of Farringdon Without was created, but only the south side of Holborn was under its jurisdiction with some minor properties, such as parts of Furnival’s Inn, on the northern side.

The Holborn District was created in 1855, consisting of the civil parishes and extra-parochial places of Glasshouse Yard, Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place, St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr and St Sepulchre. The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was created in 1900, consisting of the former area of the Holborn District and the St Giles District, excluding Glasshouse Yard and St Sepulchre, which went to the Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury. The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was abolished in 1965 and its area now forms part of the London Borough of Camden.

In the 18th century, Holborn was the location of the infamous Mother Clap’s molly house but in the modern era High Holborn has become a centre for entertainment venues to suit more general tastes: 22 inns or taverns were recorded in the 1860s and the Holborn Empire, originally Weston’s Music Hall, stood between 1857 and 1960, when it was pulled down after structural damage sustained in the Blitz. The theatre premièred the first full-length feature film in 1914, The World, the Flesh and the Devil, a 50-minute melodrama filmed in Kinemacolour.

Charles Dickens took up residence in Furnival’s Inn, on the site of the former Prudential building designed by Alfred Waterhouse now named Holborn Bars. Dickens put his character Pip, in Great Expectations, in residence at Barnard’s Inn opposite, now occupied by Gresham College. Staple Inn, notable as the promotional image for Old Holborn tobacco, is nearby. The three of these were Inns of Chancery. The most northerly of the Inns of Court, Gray’s Inn, is in Holborn, as is Lincoln’s Inn: the area has been associated with the legal professions since mediaeval times, and the name of the local militia (now Territorial Army unit, the Inns of Court & City Yeomanry) still reflects that. Subsequently the area diversified and become recognisable as the modern street.

A plaque stands at number 120 commemorating Thomas Earnshaw’s invention of the Marine chronometer, which facilitated long-distance travel. At the corner of Hatton Garden was the old family department store of Gamages. Until 1992, the London Weather Centre was located in the street. The Prudential insurance company relocated in 2002. The Daily Mirror offices used to be directly opposite it, but the site is now occupied by Sainsbury’s head office.

Hatton Garden, the centre of the diamond trade, was leased to a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Christopher Hatton at the insistence of the Queen to provide him with an income. Behind the Prudential Building lies the Anglo-Catholic church of St Alban the Martyr.

In the early 21st century, Holborn has become the site of new offices and hotels: for example, the old neoclassical Pearl Assurance building near the junction with Kingsway was converted into an hotel in 1999.

Holborn station is located at the junction of High Holborn and Kingsway. Situated on the Piccadilly and Central Lines, it is the only station common to the two lines, although the two lines also cross each other three times in West London.

The station was opened by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (GNP&BR, now the Piccadilly Line) on 15 December 1906 with the name Holborn (Kingsway). Kingsway was a new road, cutting south from High Holborn through an area of cleared slums to Strand. The suffix was dropped from tube maps in the 1960s.

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Trafalgar Square was a former station on the Bakerloo Line before it combined with Strand station on the Northern Line to become the new Charing Cross underground station. Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1624972963 Licence:	Strand stretches along the River Thames between Trafalgar Square and Aldwych Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1625131830 Licence:	The old wooden Temple Bar Credit: Walter Thornbury TUM image id: 1523115955 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Waterloo Bridge on an 1810 map. TUM image id: 1556885410 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Buses outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Date of photo unknown Credit: Stockholm Transport Museum TUM image id: 1557142527 Licence:
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:	Middle Temple Lane looking towards Victoria Embankment (2008) The buildings are mainly occupied by barristers’ chambers Credit: Wiki Commons/J D Mack TUM image id: 1660223325 Licence: CC BY 2.0	London Hippodrome in 2017 Credit: Ethan Doyle White TUM image id: 1528649183 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Trafalgar Square (1905) The steeplejack firm of W. Larkins Co Ltd. are at work cleaning Nelson’s Column for the first time since it was erected in 1843. The firm had been founded by Willliam Larkins in 1897 and he is pictured at the top next to Lord Nelson. TUM image id: 1663086959 Licence: CC BY 2.0	British Museum station Credit: London Transport Museum TUM image id: 1603458310 Licence:
The Adelphi Building on Savoy Place, looking north from Victoria Embankment Gardens (2018) Credit: Wiki Commons/Acabashi TUM image id: 1668084438 Licence: CC BY 2.0	William Davenant had Lisle Credit: Henry Herringman, London, 1673 TUM image id: 1522758368 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Mount Pleasant Sorting Office on the north-east corner of Farringdon Road (1910). The present building is on the site of the Coldbath Fields Prison where the punishments were particularly cruel in that they were not only long and physically hard but also pointless. The pub at the back used to open at 9am to serve postal workers. TUM image id: 1620296515 Licence:	Cecil Court after heavy rain Credit: Christian Cross TUM image id: 1544975010 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Coldbath Square in Clerkenwell was named after a cold water well that stood originally in fields. Cold Bath was fed by a spring which was discovered by a Mr Baynes in 1697. The discoverer declared the water had great power in nervous diseases, and "equalled those of St Magnus and St Winnifred". The bathing hours were from 5am to 1pm, the charge two shillings. The old bathhouse was a building with three gables, and had a large garden with four turret summer houses. In 1811 the trustees of the London Fever Hospital bought the property for £3830, but, being driven away by the frightened inhabitants, the ground was sold for building, the bath remaining as late as 1865. TUM image id: 1620296987 Licence:

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The Royal Opera House, Bow Street frontage, with the statue of Dame Ninette de Valois in the foreground
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British Museum station
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William Davenant had Lisle
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Doughty Street is a broad tree lined street in the Holborn district.
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Muffin Man (1910) Probably this location is not ’Drury Lane’, but it is at least somewhere in London
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Endell Street towards Long Acre, 2015
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Decorators and Pencil Works, Great Queen Street, c.1910
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Red Lion Street c. 1900, looking north to Javens Chambers and Clerkenwell Road
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Cab shelter, Russell Square
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Newsagent and Hairdresser at 152 Strand, c.1930
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