Mermaid Tavern

The Mermaid Tavern was a notable tavern during the Elizabethan era.

Mermaid Tavern was located in Cheapside, to the east of St. Paul’s Cathedral. It had entrances from both Friday Street and Bread Street. The tavern’s sign, not surprisingly, bore a mermaid.

It was the site of the so-called "Fraternity of Sireniacal Gentlemen", a drinking club that met on the first Friday of every month that included some of the Elizabethan era’s leading literary figures, among them Ben Jonson, John Donne, John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont, Thomas Coryat, John Selden, Robert Bruce Cotton, Richard Carew, Richard Martin, and William Strachey.

A popular tradition has grown up that the group included William Shakespeare, although most scholars think that was improbable.

The tavern, the location of which today corresponds to the corner of Bread and Cannon Streets, burned down in the Great Fire of London.

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Playhouse Yard, EC4V Playhouse Yard is named after the Blackfriars theatre which stood here in Shakespeare’s time and where his play’s were performed.

Playhouse Yard, EC4V

Popes Head Alley, EC3V Popes Head Alley is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Popes Head Alley, EC3V

Poultry, EC2R Poultry is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Poultry, EC2R

Priest’s Court, EC2V Priest?s Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Priest’s Court, EC2V

Princes Street, EC2R Princes Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Princes Street, EC2R

Priory Court, EC4M Priory Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Priory Court, EC4M

Puddle Dock, EC4V Puddle Dock is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Puddle Dock, EC4V

Quadrant Court, EC4M A street within the EC4M postcode

Quadrant Court, EC4M

Quadrant Court, EC4M A street within the EC4M postcode

Quadrant Court, EC4M

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

Queen Isabella Way, EC1A

Queen St Place, EC4R Queen St Place is one of the streets of London in the EC4R postal area.

Queen St Place, EC4R

Queen Street Place, EC4R Queen Street Place is a location in London.

Queen Street Place, EC4R

Queen Street, EC4N Queen Street is a street in the City of London which runs between Upper Thames Street at its southern end to Cheapside in the north.

Queen Street, EC4N

Queen Street, EC4R Queen Street is a street in the City of London which runs between Upper Thames Street and Cheapside.

Queen Street, EC4R

Queen Victoria Street, EC2R Queen Victoria Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Queen Victoria Street, EC2R

Queen Victoria Street, EC4V Queen Victoria Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4N postal area.

Queen Victoria Street, EC4V

Queen Victoria Street, EC4V Queen Victoria Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Queen Victoria Street, EC4V

Queenhithe, EC4V Queenhithe is a small and ancient ward of the City of London, situated by the River Thames and a minor street.

Queenhithe, EC4V

Rose Street, EC4M Rose Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Rose Street, EC4M

Royal Exchange, EC3V Royal Exchange is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Royal Exchange, EC3V

Russia Row, EC2V Russia Row is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Russia Row, EC2V

Southwark Bridge, EC4V Southwark Bridge is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area.

Southwark Bridge, EC4V

Southwark Bridge, SE1 This is a street in the EC4R postcode area

Southwark Bridge, SE1

St Andrews Hill, EC4V St Andrews Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

St Andrews Hill, EC4V

St Ann’s Lane, EC2V St Ann’s Lane was the name for the west end of Gresham Street until the 1860s.

St Ann’s Lane, EC2V

St Martin’s Le Grand, EC2V St Martin’s Le Grand is a street north of Newgate Street and a former liberty within the City of London

St Martin’s Le Grand, EC2V

St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4M By the beginning of the sixteenth century, St. Paul’s Churchyard was the chief centre of the book trade, not only for London, but for the whole country.

St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4M

St Swithin’s Lane, EC4N St Swithin’s Lane runs from King William Street to Cannon Street.

St Swithin’s Lane, EC4N

Stationers Hall Court, EC4M Stationers Hall Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Stationers Hall Court, EC4M

Stew Lane, EC4V Stew Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Stew Lane, EC4V

Suffolk Lane, EC4R Suffolk Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4R postal area.

Suffolk Lane, EC4R

Swan Lane, EC4R Swan Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4R postal area.

Swan Lane, EC4R

Telegraph Street, EC2R Telegraph Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Telegraph Street, EC2R

The Courtyard, EC3V The Courtyard is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

The Courtyard, EC3V

Threadneedle Street, EC3V Threadneedle Street is the location of the Bank of England and Royal Exchange.

Threadneedle Street, EC3V

Three Barrels Walk, EC4V Three Barrels Walk is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Three Barrels Walk, EC4V

Three Cranes Wharf, EC4R Three Cranes Wharf is one of the streets of London in the EC4R postal area.

Three Cranes Wharf, EC4R

Three Nun Court, EC2V Three Nun Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Three Nun Court, EC2V

Tokenhouse Yard, EC2R Tokenhouse Yard marked the site of the manufacturer of tokens that were used as the copper coinage of England before the reign of James I.

Tokenhouse Yard, EC2R

Trig Lane, EC4V A street within the EC4V postcode

Trig Lane, EC4V

Upper Cheapside Passage, EC2V A street within the EC2V postcode

Upper Cheapside Passage, EC2V

Upper Thames Street, EC4R Upper Thames Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4R postal area.

Upper Thames Street, EC4R

Upper Thames Street, EC4V Upper Thames Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Upper Thames Street, EC4V

Vestry House, EC4R Residential block

Vestry House, EC4R

Walbrook, EC4N Walbrook is one of the streets of the Bank area.

Walbrook, EC4N

Wardrobe Place, EC4V Wardrobe Place is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

Wardrobe Place, EC4V

Warwick Lane, EC1A Warwick Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Warwick Lane, EC1A

Warwick Lane, EC4M This is a street in the EC4P postcode area

Warwick Lane, EC4M

Warwick Square, EC4M Warwick Square is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Warwick Square, EC4M

Watling Street, EC4M Watling Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Watling Street, EC4M

Watling Street, EC4N Watling Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4N postal area.

Watling Street, EC4N

Well Court, EC4N Well Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area.

Well Court, EC4N

White Lion Hill, EC4V White Lion Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area.

White Lion Hill, EC4V

Wood Street, EC2V Wood Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.

Wood Street, EC2V

NEARBY PUBS

All Bar One Cannon Street This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

All Bar One Cannon Street

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

Balls Brothers Ltd

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

Bottlescrue

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

Browns

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

Cannick Tapps

City Golf & Health Clubs This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

City Golf & Health Clubs

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

Core

Corney & Barrow, Unit 3, Stock Exch This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Corney & Barrow, Unit 3, Stock Exch

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

Davy’s

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

Dirty Martini

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

Enoteca

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

Goodman City Ltd

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

Harry’s Bar

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

Harry’s Bar

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

Jamies

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

Jamies

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

Loose Cannon

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

Magpie & Stump

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

Merchant House

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

Mermaid Theatre

Old Doctor Butler’s Head This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Old Doctor Butler’s Head

Old Swan The Old Swan Inn was one of the most well-known in the City of London.

Old Swan

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

Oyster Shed

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

Patch

Planet of the Grapes Ltd This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Planet of the Grapes Ltd

Quarter Jacks, Grange St Pauls Hotel This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Quarter Jacks, Grange St Pauls Hotel

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

Reflex

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

Rudd’s

Searcy’s Champagne Bar This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Searcy’s Champagne Bar

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

Shaws Booksellers

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

Sir John Hawkshaw

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

Slug and Lettuce

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

The Anthologist

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

The Banker

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

The Bell

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

The Centre Page

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

The Cockpit

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

The Duke and Duchess

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

The Fine Line

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

The Four Sisters Townhouse

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

The Gable

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

The Golden Fleece

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

The Green Man

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

The Lord Raglan

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

The Olde Wine Shades

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

The Paternoster

The Pelt Trader, Arch 3 This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Pelt Trader, Arch 3

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

The Pepys

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

The Rising Sun

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

The Saint

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

The Sugarloaf

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

The Telegraph

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

The Three Cranes

The Tokenhouse The Tokenhouse is named for the nearby manufacturer of tokens that were used as the copper coinage of England before the 1680s.

The Tokenhouse

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

Viaduct Tavern

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

Ye Olde London

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

Ye Olde Watling

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

Zorita’s Kitchen

Queen’s Park

Queen’s Park lies between Kilburn and Kensal Green, developed from 1875 onwards and named to honour Queen Victoria.

The north of Queen’s Park formed part of the parish of Willesden and the southern section formed an exclave of the parish of Chelsea, both in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex. In 1889 the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works that included the southern section of Queen’s Park was transferred from Middlesex to the County of London, and in 1900 the anomaly of being administered from Chelsea was removed when the exclave was united with the parish of Paddington. In 1965 both parts of Queen’s Park became part of Greater London: the northern section - Queen’s Park ’proper’ formed part of Brent and the southern section - the Queen’s Park Estate - joined the City of Westminster.

Queen’s Park, like much of Kilburn, was developed by Solomon Barnett. The two-storey terraced houses east of the park, built between 1895 and 1900, typically have clean, classical lines. Those west of the park, built 1900–05, tend to be more Gothic in style. Barnett’s wife was from the West Country, and many of the roads he developed are named either for places she knew (e.g. Torbay, Tiverton, Honiton) or for popular poets of the time (e.g. Tennyson). The first occupants of the area in late Victorian times were typically lower middle class, such as clerks and teachers. Queen’s Park is both demographically and architecturally diverse. The streets around the park at the heart of Queen’s Park are a conservation area.

There is hardly any social housing in the streets around Queens Park itself, and the area was zoned as not suitable for social housing in the 1970s and 1980s as even then house prices were above average for the borough of Brent, which made them unaffordable for local Housing Associations. The main shopping streets of Salusbury Road and Chamberlayne Road have fewer convenience stores and more high-value shops and restaurants. Local schools – some of which struggled to attract the children of wealthier local families in the past – are now over-subscribed. House prices have risen accordingly.

Queen’s Park station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway on 2 June 1879 on the main line from London to Birmingham.

Services on the Bakerloo line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen’s Park on 11 February 1915. On 10 May 1915 Bakerloo services began to operate north of Queen’s Park as far as Willesden Junction over the recently built Watford DC Line tracks shared with the LNWR.

LOCAL PHOTOS

Smithfield Market TUM image id: 1620388545 Licence:	"Cheapside and Bow Church" engraved by W. Albutt, 1837 steel engraved print after a picture by T.H. Shepherd, first published in The History of London: Illustrated by Views in London and Westminster. Credit: W. Albutt TUM image id: 1507465321 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Georg Giese from Danzig, 34-year-old German merchant at the Steelyard, painted in London by Hans Holbein in 1532 Credit: Hans Holbein TUM image id: 1490827371 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Walbrook Wharf is an operating freight wharf located in the City of London adjacent to Cannon Street station. TUM image id: 1508582712 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Hopton’s Almshouses, Hopton Street, Bankside (1957). TUM image id: 1470953421 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Tate Modern viewed from Thames pleasure boat (2003) Credit: Christine Matthews TUM image id: 1557161613 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Saint John’s Gate, Clerkenwell, the main gateway to the Priory of Saint John of Jerusalem. The church was founded in the 12th century by Jordan de Briset, a Norman knight. Prior Docwra completed the gatehouse shown in this photograph in 1504. The gateway served as the main entry to the Priory, which was the center of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitallers). Credit: Henry Dixon (1880) TUM image id: 1557226611 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Illustration of Fleet Market Credit: William Henry Prior TUM image id: 1530111646 Licence: CC BY 2.0	"London Bridge from the Old Swan" by the Irish painter Hubert Pugh (1780) Shooting the tidal rapids at old London Bridge was dangerous; many passengers preferred to get off at the Old Swan, and walk. Immediately across the river in the painting is St Saviour’s Church, now Southwark Cathedral. Credit: Hubert Pugh (Bank of England Museum) TUM image id: 1623675815 Licence:	The Church of All Hallows Lombard Street as seen from Ball Alley in the 1820s. All Hallows was a rare City of London church not demolished due to the Great Fire or the Blitz but to falling attendances. Taken from ’The Churches of London’ by George Godwin (1839) Credit: Robert William Billings and John Le Keux TUM image id: 1627642469 Licence:
Adelaide House from above Credit: https://manchesterhistory.net/ TUM image id: 1601636552 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Amen Court, EC4M TUM image id: 1493474208 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Anchor Terrace, SE1 A large symmetrical building on Southwark Bridge Road, Anchor Terrace was built in 1834 for senior employees of the nearby Anchor Brewery. The building was converted into luxury flats in the late 1990s. Credit: Wiki Commons/Jwslubbock TUM image id: 1621527193 Licence:	Ayres Street TUM image id: 1544924072 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The shoemaker was a 1907 London comedy drama, a play "full of tears and laughter." TUM image id: 1520778488 Licence: CC BY 2.0