Timber Street, EC1Y

Timber Street was formerly called Norway Street.

Clerkenwell Green and St James’ Church
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The streets here were built by a timber merchant circa 1810 who named them after his trade-related activities.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

The Underground Map Pepys Street, EC3N Added: 20 Sep 2020 13:01 GMT	Pepys starts diary On 1 January 1659, Samuel Pepys started his famous daily diary and maintained it for ten years. The diary has become perhaps the most extensive source of information on this critical period of English history. Pepys never considered that his diary would be read by others. The original diary consisted of six volumes written in Shelton shorthand, which he had learned as an undergraduate on scholarship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. This shorthand was introduced in 1626, and was the same system Isaac Newton used when writing. Reply
Katharina Logan Ely Place, N1 Added: 9 Aug 2022 19:01 GMT	Ely place existed in name in 1857 On 7th July 1857 John James Chase and Mary Ann Weekes were married at St John the Baptist Hoxton, he of full age and she a minor. Both parties list their place of residence as Ely Place, yet according to other information, this street was not named until 1861. He was a bricklayer, she had no occupation listed, but both were literate and able to sign their names on their marriage certificate. Source: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSF7-Q9Y7?cc=3734475 Reply
Sandra Field Masons Place, EC1V Added: 15 Apr 2023 16:15 GMT	Removal Order Removal order from Shoreditch to Holborn, Jane Emma Hall, Single, 21 Pregnant. Born about 21 years since in Masons place in the parish of St Lukes. Source: Sign up Reply
Jeff Owen Owen Street, EC1V Added: 20 Mar 2021 16:18 GMT	Owen’s School Owen Street is the site of Owen’s Boys’ School. The last school was built in 1881 and was demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the development which stand there today. It was a “Direct Grant” grammar school and was founded in 1613 by Dame Alice Owen. What is now “Owen’s Fields” was the playground between the old school and the new girls’ school (known then as “Dames Alice Owen’s School” or simply “DAOS”). The boys’ school had the top two floors of that building for their science labs. The school moved to Potters Bar in Hertfordshire in 1971 and is now one of the top State comprehensive schools in the country. The old building remained in use as an accountancy college and taxi-drivers’ “knowledge” school until it was demolished. The new building is now part of City and Islington College. Owen’s was a fine school. I should know because I attended there from 1961 to 1968. Reply
Bernard Miller Windsor Terrace, N1 Added: 12 Apr 2022 17:36 GMT	My mother and her sister were born at 9 Windsor Terrace My mother, Millie Haring (later Miller) and her sister Yetta Haring (later Freedman) were born here in 1922 and 1923. With their parents and older brother and sister, they lived in two rooms until they moved to Stoke Newington in 1929. She always said there were six rooms, six families, a shared sink on the first floor landing and a toilet in the backyard. Reply
Steven Shepherd Pitfield Street, N1 Added: 4 Feb 2021 14:20 GMT	Our House I and my three brothers were born at 178 Pitfield Street. All of my Mothers Family (ADAMS) Lived in the area. There was an area behind the house where the Hoxton Stall holders would keep the barrows. The house was classed as a slum but was a large house with a basement. The basement had 2 rooms that must have been unchanged for many years it contained a ’copper’ used to boil and clean clothes and bedlinen and a large ’range’ a cast iron coal/log fired oven. Coal was delivered through a ’coal hole’ in the street which dropped through to the basement. The front of the house used to be a shop but unused while we lived there. I have many more happy memories of the house too many to put here. Reply
Mike Elia Street, N1 Added: 28 Feb 2023 18:09 GMT	6 Elia Street When I was young I lived in 6 Elia Street. At the end of the garden there was a garage owned by Initial Laundries which ran from an access in Quick Street all the way up to the back of our garden. The fire exit to the garage was a window leading into our garden. 6 Elia Street was owned by Initial Laundry. Reply
MCNALLY Blackfriars Added: 17 May 2021 09:42 GMT	Blackfriars (1959 - 1965) I lived in Upper Ground from 1959 to 1964 I was 6 years old my parents Vince and Kitty run the Pub The Angel on the corner of Upper Ground and Bodies Bridge. I remember the ceiling of the cellar was very low and almost stretched the length of Bodies Bridge. The underground trains run directly underneath the pub. If you were down in the cellar when a train was coming it was quite frightening Reply
Tom Blackfriars Added: 21 May 2021 23:07 GMT	Blackfriars What is, or was, Bodies Bridge? Reply
Liverpool Street Added: 21 Apr 2021 16:21 GMT	Liverpool Street the Bishopsgate station has existed since 1840 as a passenger station, but does not appear in the site’s cartography. Evidently, the 1860 map is in fact much earlier than that date. Reply
Talbot Yard, SE1 Added: 27 Jul 2021 14:31 GMT	correction Chaucer did not write Pilgrims Progress. His stories were called the Canterbury Tales Reply
Lena White Conduit Street, N1 Added: 18 Mar 2021 13:08 GMT	White Conduit Street, N1 My mum, Rosina Wade of the Wade and Hannam family in the area of Chapel Street and Parkfield Street, bought her first “costume” at S Cohen’s in White Conduit Street. Would have probably been about 1936 or thereabouts. She said that he was a small man but an expert tailor. I hope that Islington Council preserve the shop front as it’s a piece of history of the area. Mum used to get her high heel shoes from an Italian shoe shop in Chapel Street. She had size 2 feet and they would let her know when a new consignment of size 2 shoes were in. I think she was a very good customer. She worked at Killingbacks artificial flower maker in Northampton Square and later at the Halifax bombers factory north of Edgware where she was a riveter. Reply
STEPHEN ARTHUR JACKSON Lynedoch Street, E2 Added: 14 Nov 2021 17:12 GMT	Lynedoch Street, E2 my father Arthur Jackson was born in lynedoch street in 1929 and lived with mm grandparents and siblings, until they were relocated to Pamela house Haggerston rd when the street was to be demolished Reply
All bar one Added: 3 Jun 2021 15:50 GMT	All Bar One The capitalisation is wrong Reply
Jack Wilson St Albans Place, N1 Added: 21 Jun 2022 21:40 GMT	Penfold Printers I am seeking the location of Penfold Printers Offices in Dt Albans place - probably about 1870 or so Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Jean Deane Mill Lane, looking east (1900s) Added: 2 Oct 2023 16:43 GMT	Advertisement for a laundry in Mill Lane, Brixton Hill, SW2 from early 1900’s The New Imperial Laundry Source: From a Ladies glance guide for Mistress and Maid Reply
Sue Meyrick Road, SW11 Added: 24 Sep 2023 19:09 GMT	Meyrick Rd My family - Roe - lived in poverty at 158 Meyrick Rd in the 1920s, moving to 18 Lavender Terrace in 1935. They also lived in York Rd at one point. Alf, Nell (Ellen), plus children John, Ellen (Did), Gladys, Joyce & various lodgers. Alf worked for the railway (LMS). Reply
Michael Tyrrell Avenue, DA16 Added: 20 Sep 2023 21:10 GMT	Momentous Birth! I was born in the upstairs front room of 28 Tyrrell Avenue in August 1938. I was a breach birth and quite heavy ( poor Mum!). My parents moved to that end of terrace house from another rental in St Mary Cray where my three year older brother had been born in 1935. The estate was quite new in 1938 and all the properties were rented. My Father was a Postman. I grew up at no 28 all through WWII and later went to Little Dansington School Reply
Mike Levy Arbour Square, E1 Added: 19 Sep 2023 18:10 GMT	Bombing of Arbour Square in the Blitz On the night of September 7, 1940. Hyman Lubosky (age 35), his wife Fay (or Fanny)(age 32) and their son Martin (age 17 months) died at 11 Arbour Square. They are buried together in Rainham Jewish Cemetery. Their grave stones read: "Killed by enemy action" Reply
Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Alex Britton Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 10:43 GMT	Late opening The tracks through Roding Valley were opened on 1 May 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on its Woodford to Ilford line (the Fairlop Loop). But the station was not opened until 3 February 1936 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER, successor to the GER). Source: Roding Valley tube station - Wikipedia Reply
Kevin Pont Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:52 GMT	Shhh.... Roding Valley is the quietest tube station, each year transporting the same number of passengers as Waterloo does in one day. Reply
Kevin Pont Dollis Hill Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:47 GMT	The connection with Bletchley Park The code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill. Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

Bunhill Fields Bunhill Fields was in use as a burial ground from 1665 until 1854.

Bunhill Fields

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

Clerkenwell Preceptory

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

Clerkenwell Priory

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

Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y

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

Hicks Hall

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

Honourable Artillery Company Museum

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

Museum of the Order of St John

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

St John Clerkenwell

St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics was founded in London in 1751 for the treatment of incurable pauper lunatics by a group of philanthropists.

St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics

NEARBY STREETS

Agdon Street, EC1V Agdon Street was originally called Woods Close.

Agdon Street, EC1V

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

Albemarle Way, EC1M

Albion Place, EC1M Albion Place was formerly George Court.

Albion Place, EC1M

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

Alders Court, EC1Y

Alleyn House, EC1Y Alleyn House is a block on Chequer Street.

Alleyn House, EC1Y

Amias House, EC1V Amias House is a building on Central Street.

Amias House, EC1V

Amias Place, EC1Y Amias Place was formerly George Yard.

Amias Place, EC1Y

Anchor House, EC1V Anchor House is located on Old Street.

Anchor House, EC1V

Anchor Yard, EC1Y Anchor Yard is named after a former inn here of this name.

Anchor Yard, EC1Y

Argus House, EC1V Argus House is a block on St John Street.

Argus House, EC1V

Ashby Street, EC1V Ashby Street was named after local landowners who had a seat at Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire.

Ashby Street, EC1V

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

Aylesbury Street, EC1V

Baldwin Street, EC1V Baldwin Street was named after Richard Baldwin, Treasurer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital when the street was built in 1811.

Baldwin Street, EC1V

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

Bale’s Court, EC1M

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

Baltic Street East, EC1Y

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

Baltic Street West, EC1Y

Banner House, EC1Y Banner House is a block on Banner Street.

Banner House, EC1Y

Banner Street, EC1Y Banner Street was named after the Banner family, late 18th century landowners in the area.

Banner Street, EC1Y

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

Barbican Court, EC1A

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

Barbican, EC2Y

Barnabas House, EC1V Barnabas House is sited on Central Street.

Barnabas House, EC1V

Bartholomew Square, EC1V This is a street in the EC1V postcode area

Bartholomew Square, EC1V

Basterfield House, EC1Y Basterfield House is located on Unnamed Road.

Basterfield House, EC1Y

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

Bastwick Street, EC1V

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

Bath Street, EC1V

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

Beech Street, EC2Y

Ben Jonson House, EC1Y Ben Jonson House is sited on Golden Lane.

Ben Jonson House, EC1Y

Ben Jonson House, EC2Y Ben Jonson House is a block on Golden Lane.

Ben Jonson House, EC2Y

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

Benjamin Street, EC1M

Bentima House, EC1V Bentima House is located on Old Street.

Bentima House, EC1V

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

Berkeley Court, EC1M

Berry Place, EC1V Berry Place and Berry Street were named after Thomas Berry, local early 19th century landowner.

Berry Place, EC1V

Berry Street, EC1M Berry Place and Berry Street were named after Thomas Berry, local early 19th century landowner.

Berry Street, EC1M

Blake Tower, EC2Y Blake Tower is located on Fann Street.

Blake Tower, EC2Y

Boundary House, EC1M Boundary House is a block on Charterhouse Street.

Boundary House, EC1M

Bowater House, EC1Y Bowater House is sited on Fann Street.

Bowater House, EC1Y

Brackley Street, EC2Y Brackley Street was named after Viscount Brackley - the title given to the eldest sons of the Earl of Bridgewater who owned a townhouse on Bridgewater Square.

Brackley Street, EC2Y

Braithwaite House, EC1Y Braithwaite House is a block on Bunhill Row.

Braithwaite House, EC1Y

Breton House, EC2Y Breton House is a block on Golden Lane.

Breton House, EC2Y

Brewery Square, EC1V Brewery Square is a square surrounded by modern buildings in Clerkenwell.

Brewery Square, EC1V

Brewhouse Yard, EC1V Brewhouse Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Brewhouse Yard, EC1V

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

Bridgewater Square, EC1Y

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

Briset Street, EC1M

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

Britton Street, EC1M

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

Broad Yard, EC1M

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

Bryer Court, EC2Y

Bunhill Fields, EC1Y Bunhill Fields is a road in the EC1Y postcode area

Bunhill Fields, EC1Y

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

Bunhill Row, EC1Y

Burnhill House, EC1V Burnhill House is a block on Norman Street.

Burnhill House, EC1V

Cap House, EC1A Cap House is a building on Long Lane.

Cap House, EC1A

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

Carthusian Street, EC1A

Centenary Building, EC1R Centenary Building is a block on Spencer Street.

Centenary Building, EC1R

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

Central Street, EC1V

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

Charterhouse Buildings, EC1A

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

Charterhouse Mews, EC1A

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

Charterhouse Square, EC1M

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

Chequer Street, EC1Y

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

Cherry Tree Walk, EC1Y

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

Chiswell Street, EC1Y

City Walk Apartments, EC1V City Walk Apartments is sited on Seward Street.

City Walk Apartments, EC1V

Classic House, EC1V Classic House is a block on Old Street.

Classic House, EC1V

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

Clerkenwell Road, EC1M

College Building, EC1R College Building is a block on Northampton Square.

College Building, EC1R

Comice Apartments, EC1V Comice Apartments is a building on Pear Tree Street.

Comice Apartments, EC1V

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

Compton Street, EC1V

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

Cowcross Street, EC1M

Crayle House, EC1V Crayle House is sited on Cyrus Street.

Crayle House, EC1V

Crescent House, EC1M Crescent House is sited on Goswell Road.

Crescent House, EC1M

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

Crescent Row, EC1Y

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

Cripplegate Street, EC1Y

Cromwell Tower, EC2Y Cromwell Tower is a block on Silk Street.

Cromwell Tower, EC2Y

Crown House, EC1M Crown House is a building on Goswell Road.

Crown House, EC1M

Crozier Court, EC1M Abbot’s Place, NW6

Crozier Court, EC1M

Cullum Welch House, EC1M Cullum Welch House is a block on Golden Lane.

Cullum Welch House, EC1M

Cuthbert Harrowing House, EC1Y Cuthbert Harrowing House is a block on Fann Street.

Cuthbert Harrowing House, EC1Y

Cyrus House, EC1V Cyrus House is located on Cyrus Street.

Cyrus House, EC1V

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

Cyrus Street, EC1V

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

Dallington Street, EC1V

Davina House, EC1V Davina House is a block on Goswell Road.

Davina House, EC1V

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

Defoe House, EC2Y

Denmark House, EC1M Denmark House is a block on Cowcross Street.

Denmark House, EC1M

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

Domingo Street, EC1Y

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

Dufferin Avenue, EC1Y

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

Dufferin Street, EC1Y

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

Eagle Court, EC1M

Earnshaw House, EC1V Earnshaw House is a block on Percival Street.

Earnshaw House, EC1V

East Central House, EC1V East Central House is a block on Lever Street.

East Central House, EC1V

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

Errol Street, EC1Y

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

Fann Street, EC1Y

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

Faulkners Alley, EC1M

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

Featherstone Street, EC1Y

Finsbury Street, EC2A Finsbury Street is a road in the EC2Y postcode area

Finsbury Street, EC2A

Florin Court, EC1A Florin Court is a classic Art Deco building in Clerkenwell.

Florin Court, EC1A

Fortune House, EC1Y Fortune House is a block on Fortune Street.

Fortune House, EC1Y

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

Fortune Street, EC1Y

Galileo Apartments, EC1Y Galileo Apartments is a block on Featherstone Street.

Galileo Apartments, EC1Y

Galway Street, EC1V Galway Street was named for the Earl of Galway.

Galway Street, EC1V

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

Garrett Street, EC1Y

Gastigny House, EC1V Gastigny House is a block on Lever Street.

Gastigny House, EC1V

Gate House, EC1M Residential block

Gate House, EC1M

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

Gee Street, EC1V

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

Glasshouse Yard, EC2Y

Godfrey House St Lukes Estate, EC1V Godfrey House is on the St Lukes Estate.

Godfrey House St Lukes Estate, EC1V

Godfrey House, EC1V Godfrey House is a block on Bath Street.

Godfrey House, EC1V

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

Golden Lane, EC1Y

Goswell Place Building, EC1R Goswell Place Building is located on Ashby Street.

Goswell Place Building, EC1R

Goswell Place, EC1V Goswell Place lies off Goswell Street.

Goswell Place, EC1V

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

Goswell Road, EC1Y

Great Arthur House, EC1Y Great Arthur House is a building on Fann Street.

Great Arthur House, EC1Y

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

Great Sutton Street, EC1M

Greenhill House, EC1M Greenhill House is a block on Cowcross Street.

Greenhill House, EC1M

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

Greenhills Rents, EC1A

Grimthorpe House, EC1V Grimthorpe House is a building on Agdon Street.

Grimthorpe House, EC1V

Harella House, EC1V Harella House is a building on Goswell Road.

Harella House, EC1V

Harold Laski House, EC1V Harold Laski House is a block on Percival Street.

Harold Laski House, EC1V

Hatfield House, EC1M Hatfield House is a block on Baltic Street West.

Hatfield House, EC1M

Hatfield House, EC1Y Hatfield House is a block on Baltic Street West.

Hatfield House, EC1Y

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

Hayne Street, EC1A

Haywards Place, EC1V Haywards Place is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Haywards Place, EC1V

Helmet Row, EC1V Helmet Row is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Helmet Row, EC1V

Honduras Street, EC1Y Honduras Street dates from the 1810s.

Honduras Street, EC1Y

Infinity House, EC1 Infinity House is located on Britton Street.

Infinity House, EC1

Invicta House, EC1Y Invicta House is a block on Banner Street.

Invicta House, EC1Y

Ironmonger Row, EC1V Ironmonger Row is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Ironmonger Row, EC1V

Italia Conti House, EC1M Italia Conti House can be found on Goswell Road.

Italia Conti House, EC1M

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

Jerusalem Passage, EC1M

Joseph Rotblat Building, EC1A Joseph Rotblat Building is a building on Glasshouse Yard.

Joseph Rotblat Building, EC1A

King Square, EC1V King Square is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

King Square, EC1V

Klaco House, EC1M Klaco House is a block on St John’s Lane.

Klaco House, EC1M

Lagonier House, EC1V Lagonier House is located on Ironmonger Row.

Lagonier House, EC1V

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

Lamb’s Passage, EC1Y

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

Lauderdale Tower, EC2Y

Leo Yard, EC1V Leo Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Leo Yard, EC1V

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

Lever Street, EC1V

Liberty House, EC1V Liberty House can be found on St John Street.

Liberty House, EC1V

Lindsey House, EC1M Lindsey House can be found on Charterhouse Street.

Lindsey House, EC1M

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

Lindsey Street, EC1A

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

Lizard Street, EC1V

Longbow House, EC1Y Longbow House is a block on Chiswell Street.

Longbow House, EC1Y

Longbow House, EC2A Longbow House is a block on Chiswell Street.

Longbow House, EC2A

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

Mallow Street, EC1Y

Malta Street, EC1V This is a street in the EC1V postcode area

Malta Street, EC1V

Martha’s Buildings, EC1Y Martha’s Buildings is a road in the EC1V postcode area

Martha’s Buildings, EC1Y

Marylebone House, EC1M Marylebone House is a block on St John Street.

Marylebone House, EC1M

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

Memel Street, EC1Y

Michael House, EC1Y Michael House is a block on Chiswell Street.

Michael House, EC1Y

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

Milton Court, EC2Y

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

Milton Street, EC2Y

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

Mitchell Street, EC1V

Murton Street, EC1V Murton Street dates from about 1829.

Murton Street, EC1V

Myddelton Building, EC1R Myddelton Building is located on Goswell Road.

Myddelton Building, EC1R

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

Norman Street, EC1V

Northampton Square, EC1V Northampton Square is a square between Finsbury and Clerkenwell, located between Goswell Road and St John Street.

Northampton Square, EC1V

Northburgh House, EC1V Northburgh House is a building on Northburgh Street.

Northburgh House, EC1V

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

Northburgh Street, EC1M

Old Street, EC1Y Old Street runs west to east from Goswell Road in Clerkenwell to a crossroads in Shoreditch.

Old Street, EC1Y

Orchard Building, EC1V Orchard Building is a block on Pear Tree Street.

Orchard Building, EC1V

Paramount Building, EC1V Paramount Building is a block on St John Street.

Paramount Building, EC1V

Parchment House, EC1V Parchment House is located on Northburgh Street.

Parchment House, EC1V

Pardon Street, EC1V Pardon Street was named after Pardon Chapel, founded in the wake of the Black Death in 1348.

Pardon Street, EC1V

Parkes Building, EC1R Parkes Building is a building on Sebastian Street.

Parkes Building, EC1R

Partridge House, EC1V Partridge House is a block on Malta Street.

Partridge House, EC1V

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

Passing Alley, EC1M

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

Paton Street, EC1V

Peabody Tower, EC1Y Peabody Tower is a block on Golden Lane.

Peabody Tower, EC1Y

Pear Tree Street, EC1V Pear Tree Street connects Central Street and Goswell Road.

Pear Tree Street, EC1V

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

Peerless Street, EC1V

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

Penny Bank Chambers, EC1M

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

Percival Street, EC1V

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

Peter’s Lane, EC1M

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

Pickax Street, EC2Y

Plough Court, EC2Y Plough Court was renamed as part of Barbican in 1939.

Plough Court, EC2Y

Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block

Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M

Priestley House, EC1V Priestley House is a block on Old Street.

Priestley House, EC1V

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

Provost & East Building,

Quaker Court, EC1Y Quaker Court is a block on Banner Street

Quaker Court, EC1Y

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

Radnor Street, EC1V

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

Red Cross Street, EC2Y

Roby House, EC1V Roby House is sited on Mitchell Street.

Roby House, EC1V

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

Roscoe Street, EC1Y

Sabian House, EC1M Sabian House is sited on Cowcross Street.

Sabian House, EC1M

Saunderson House, EC1A Saunderson House is a block on Long Lane.

Saunderson House, EC1A

Sebastian House, EC1V Sebastian House is sited on Sebastian Street.

Sebastian House, EC1V

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

Sebastian Street, EC1V

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

Seward Street, EC1V

Shakespeare Tower, EC2Y Shakespeare Tower can be found on Beech Street.

Shakespeare Tower, EC2Y

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

Silk Street, EC2Y

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

Smokehouse Yard, EC1M

St John Street, EC1V St John Street runs from Finsbury to Farringdon.

St John Street, EC1V

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

St John’s Square, EC1M

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

St John’s Square, EC1M

St Johns House, EC1M Residential block

St Johns House, EC1M

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

St Johns Lane, EC1M

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

St Johns Path, EC1M

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

St Johns Place, EC1M

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

St John’s Gate, EC1M

St Mary’s Tower, EC1Y St Mary’s Tower is a block on Fortune Street.

St Mary’s Tower, EC1Y

Stanley Cohen House, EC1Y Stanley Cohen House is a block on Golden Lane.

Stanley Cohen House, EC1Y

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

Sutton Lane, EC1M

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

Sutton Road, EC1M

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

Sycamore Street, EC1Y

Telfer House, EC1V Telfer House is a block on Lever Street.

Telfer House, EC1V

Templeton House, EC1Y Templeton House is a block on Chiswell Street.

Templeton House, EC1Y

The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block

The Charterhouse, EC1M

The Print House, EC1R The Print House is a block on Aylesbury Street.

The Print House, EC1R

Therese House, EC1M Therese House is a block on Glasshouse Yard.

Therese House, EC1M

Tilney Court, EC1Y Tilney Court lies off of Old Street.

Tilney Court, EC1Y

Tompion House, EC1V Tompion House is located on Cyrus Street.

Tompion House, EC1V

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

Tompion Street, EC1V

Turnpike House, EC1V Turnpike House is a building on King Square.

Turnpike House, EC1V

Victoria House, EC1V A street within the EC1V postcode

Victoria House, EC1V

Warwick House, EC1M Warwick House is a block on Cowcross Street.

Warwick House, EC1M

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

Warwick Yard, EC1Y

Waterloo Street, EC1V Waterloo Street once ran from Lever Street to Radnor Street.

Waterloo Street, EC1V

Wenlake House, EC1V Wenlake House is a block on Old Street.

Wenlake House, EC1V

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

White Horse Alley, EC1M

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

Whitecross Street, EC1Y

Willen House, EC1V Willen House is a block on Bath Street.

Willen House, EC1V

Wyclif House, EC1V Wyclif House is a block on St John Street.

Wyclif House, EC1V

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

Wyclif Street, EC1V

Young’s Buildings, EC1Y Young’s Buildings was named after Francis Young, a local 18th century property owner

Young’s Buildings, EC1Y

Zinc House, EC1M Zinc House is a block on Cowcross Street.

NEARBY PUBS

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

Hat and Feathers

Lazybones

Love’s Company, Unit 1

Searcys Bars @ GSM & D

Sutton Arms

The Artisan

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

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Clerkenwell

Clerkenwell was once known as London’s Little Italy because of the large number of Italians living in the area from the 1850s until the 1960s.

Clerkenwell took its name from the Clerks’ Well in Farringdon Lane. In the Middle Ages, the London Parish clerks performed annual mystery plays there, based on biblical themes. Part of the well remains visible, incorporated into a 1980s building called Well Court.

In the 17th century South Clerkenwell became a fashionable place of residence. Oliver Cromwell owned a house on Clerkenwell Close, just off the Green. Several aristocrats had houses there, most notably the Duke of Northumberland, as did people such as Erasmus Smith.

Before Clerkenwell became a built-up area, it had a reputation as a resort a short walk out of the city, where Londoners could disport themselves at its spas, of which there were several, based on natural chalybeate springs, tea gardens and theatres. The present day Sadler’s Wells has survived as heir to this tradition.

Clerkenwell was also the location of three prisons: the Clerkenwell Bridewell, Coldbath Fields Prison (later Clerkenwell Gaol) and the New Prison, later the Clerkenwell House of Detention, notorious as the scene of the Clerkenwell Outrage in 1867, an attempted prison break by Fenians who killed many in the tenement houses on Corporation Row in trying to blow a hole in the prison wall.

The Industrial Revolution changed the area greatly. It became a centre for breweries, distilleries and the printing industry. It gained a special reputation for the making of clocks and watches, which activity once employed many people from around the area. Flourishing craft workshops still carry on some of the traditional trades, such as jewellery-making. Clerkenwell is home to Witherby’s, Europe’s oldest printing company.

After the Second World War, Clerkenwell suffered from industrial decline and many of the premises occupied by the engineering, printing publishing and meat and food trades (the last mostly around Smithfield) fell empty. Several acclaimed council housing estates were commissioned by Finsbury Borough Council. Modernist architect and Russian émigré Berthold Lubetkin’s listed Spa Green Estate, constructed 1943–1950, has recently been restored. The Finsbury Estate, constructed in 1968 to the designs of Joseph Emberton includes flats, since altered and re-clad.

A general revival and gentrification process began in the 1980s, and the area is now known for loft-living in some of the former industrial buildings. It also has young professionals, nightclubs and restaurants and is home to many professional offices as an overspill for the nearby City of London and West End.

Amongst other sectors, there is a notable concentration of design professions around Clerkenwell, and supporting industries such as high-end designer furniture showrooms.

LOCAL PHOTOS

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Smithfield Market TUM image id: 1620388545 Licence:	The third Grand Theatre, Islington (1903). This was built on the site of the former Philharmonic Hall and two previous Grand Theatres TUM image id: 1587741263 Licence: CC BY 2.0	St Lukes Hospital for Lunatics, London TUM image id: 1554045418 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The gravestone of English poet William Blake in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground Credit: https://careergappers.com/ TUM image id: 1622643378 Licence:	Islington Horse and Cattle market at the turn of the twentieth century. TUM image id: 1556878421 Licence:
The Grand Theatre, Islington High Street (1903) The new Grand Theatre - the fourth theatre on the site - was opened on 26 December 1900 with a production of the pantomime ’Robinson Crusoe’. The Huddersfield Daily reported the next day: "Nearing the end of the first performance of ’Robinson Crusoe’ at the Grand Theatre, Islington, on Wednesday, a fire broke out. From all parts of the house an alarm was raised. All present rose to their feet as large pieces of inflammable material were seen dropping from flies. The fire-proof curtain was promptly lowered, and the band struck up the National Anthem. The actors and actresses crowded into the stage boxes. Mr. Jones, playing ’Friday,’ clambered on to the stage from the front and appealed to the audience not to rush for the doors as there was no danger. Then Mr. Charles Townley, the author, came forward explaining that the management, owing to the electric installations not being completed, had used gas batten, and one of the sky borders had unfortunately caught fire. The officials had shown their efficiency by the celerity with which the fire had been extinguished. This is the fourth fire that has occurred at this theatre, and Wednesday’s was the first performance given since the building was gutted some few months back." Thankfully the fire was quickly put out and the performance continued, and the Theatre would go on to stage pantomime, drama, and variety productions until it was renamed the Islington Empire in 1908. TUM image id: 1557151038 Licence:	The Angel, Islington (c.1890) TUM image id: 1557162442 Licence:	Saint John’s Gate, Clerkenwell, the main gateway to the Priory of Saint John of Jerusalem. The church was founded in the 12th century by Jordan de Briset, a Norman knight. Prior Docwra completed the gatehouse shown in this photograph in 1504. The gateway served as the main entry to the Priory, which was the center of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitallers). Credit: Henry Dixon (1880) TUM image id: 1557226611 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Illustration of Fleet Market Credit: William Henry Prior TUM image id: 1530111646 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Sadler House on the Spa Green Estate from Rosebery Avenue (2011) The ’organic’ connection between old and new buildings intended by architect Berthold Lubetkin at Spa Green. Credit: Wiki Commons/Grantham9 TUM image id: 1655931145 Licence: CC BY 2.0
At the corner of Clerkenwell Road and Goswell Road sits the Hat and Feathers. It was built on the site of an earlier tavern around 1860 for owner James Leask. It was designed by William Finch Hill who specialised in music halls and pubs. Credit: Ewan Munro TUM image id: 1637770947 Licence:	Amen Court, EC4M TUM image id: 1493474208 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Clerkenwell Green (1898) The water fountain shown here became public toilets. TUM image id: 1620298544 Licence:	View of Cloth Fair in 1884 showing the side entrance to St Bartholomew’s Priory, Smithfield. Credit: John Crowther TUM image id: 1622807402 Licence:	Holborn Viaduct from Farringdon Street, c. 1910 The building of Farringdon Street is considered one of the greatest urban engineering achievements of the 19th century. It was one of the first engineered multi-lane roads, and also buried the River Fleet in a system of underground tunnels, solving one of London’s most daunting sanitary problems. Its construction also included the building of the world’s first stretch of underground railway, a branch of the Metropolitan Railway that later became part of the London Underground running beneath Farringdon Road from King’s Cross St. Pancras into the City at Farringdon. The construction of Farringdon Street also necessitated the removal of the Fleet Market that had been built in 1736 above the course of the River Fleet, which is now London’s largest subterranean river. North of the market was Hockley-in-the-Hole (around Ray Street Bridge), an area notorious for bear-baiting and similar activities. Credit: Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1686139066 Licence:

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St Lukes Hospital for Lunatics, London
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Saint John’s Gate, Clerkenwell, the main gateway to the Priory of Saint John of Jerusalem. The church was founded in the 12th century by Jordan de Briset, a Norman knight. Prior Docwra completed the gatehouse shown in this photograph in 1504. The gateway served as the main entry to the Priory, which was the center of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitallers).
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At the corner of Clerkenwell Road and Goswell Road sits the Hat and Feathers. It was built on the site of an earlier tavern around 1860 for owner James Leask. It was designed by William Finch Hill who specialised in music halls and pubs.
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View of Cloth Fair in 1884 showing the side entrance to St Bartholomew’s Priory, Smithfield.
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Florin Court, Charterhouse Square (2008) The building was used as Whitehaven Mansions, the fictional London residence of Agatha Christie’s character Hercule Poirot, in the LWT television series Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989–2013)
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Great Arthur House, at the centre of the Golden Lane Estate, was the tallest residential building in Britain at the time of its construction.
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Jewin Street looking east toward Red Cross Street (1920) Tubbs & Son sign outside premises and their posters in the window. It is probably Number 38, sometime home of the City of London Photographic Stores (1901) and Belprex Ltd (1927) The Fire Station at the end was built after the 1897 fire. Unsurprisingly the street name derives from an ancient Jewish burial ground. Jewin Street was widened after the 1897 fire.
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Pardon Street
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(West) Smithfield from the ’woodcut’ map of c. 1561, illustrating its proximity with open fields to the west, and cattle pens by the City of London
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Kennedy’s - who sold sausages and pies around Camberwell and Peckham - delivering/receiving at Smithfield Market
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