Leadenhall Street, EC3A

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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
Graham O’Connell Lloyds Wharf, SE1 Added: 10 Apr 2021 10:24 GMT	Lloyd & Sons, Tin Box Manufacturers (1859 - 1982) A Lloyd & Sons occupied the wharf (now known as Lloyds Wharf, Mill Street) from the mid 19th Century to the late 20th Century. Best known for making tin boxes they also produced a range of things from petrol canisters to collecting tins. They won a notorious libel case in 1915 when a local councillor criticised the working conditions which, in fairness, weren’t great. There was a major fire here in 1929 but the company survived at least until 1982 and probably a year or two after that. Reply
Bernard Miller Windsor Terrace, N1 Added: 12 Apr 2022 17:36 GMT	My mother and her sister were born at 9 Windsor Terrace My mother, Millie Haring (later Miller) and her sister Yetta Haring (later Freedman) were born here in 1922 and 1923. With their parents and older brother and sister, they lived in two rooms until they moved to Stoke Newington in 1929. She always said there were six rooms, six families, a shared sink on the first floor landing and a toilet in the backyard. Reply
jack stevens Whites Row, E1 Added: 26 Sep 2021 13:38 GMT	Mothers birth place Number 5 Whites Row which was built in around 1736 and still standing was the premises my now 93 year old mother was born in, her name at birth was Hilda Evelyne Shaw, Reply
margaret clark Thrawl Street, E1 Added: 15 Oct 2021 22:23 GMT	Margaret’s address when she married in 1938 ^, Josepine House, Stepney is the address of my mother on her marriage certificate 1938. Her name was Margaret Irene Clark. Her father Basil Clark was a warehouse grocer. Reply
Old Nichol Street, E2 Added: 6 Nov 2021 15:03 GMT	Old Nichol Street, E2 Information about my grandfather’s tobacconist shop Reply
Admin Tower Bridge, SE1 Added: 26 Aug 2022 15:19 GMT	Bus makes a leap A number 78 double-decker bus driven by Albert Gunter was forced to jump an accidentally opening Tower Bridge. He was awarded a £10 bonus. Reply
Steven Shepherd Pitfield Street, N1 Added: 4 Feb 2021 14:20 GMT	Our House I and my three brothers were born at 178 Pitfield Street. All of my Mothers Family (ADAMS) Lived in the area. There was an area behind the house where the Hoxton Stall holders would keep the barrows. The house was classed as a slum but was a large house with a basement. The basement had 2 rooms that must have been unchanged for many years it contained a ’copper’ used to boil and clean clothes and bedlinen and a large ’range’ a cast iron coal/log fired oven. Coal was delivered through a ’coal hole’ in the street which dropped through to the basement. The front of the house used to be a shop but unused while we lived there. I have many more happy memories of the house too many to put here. Reply
fariba Tower Bridge Business Complex, S Added: 28 Jun 2021 00:48 GMT	Tower Bridge Business Complex, S need for my coursework Source: university Reply
Martin Eaton Shoreditch Added: 14 Oct 2021 03:56 GMT	Boundary Estate Sunbury, Taplow House. Reply
The Underground Map Aldgate Added: 8 Mar 2021 15:05 GMT	A plague on all your houses Aldgate station is built directly on top of a vast plague pit, where thousands of bodies are apparently buried. No-one knows quite how many. Reply
Liverpool Street Added: 21 Apr 2021 16:21 GMT	Liverpool Street the Bishopsgate station has existed since 1840 as a passenger station, but does not appear in the site’s cartography. Evidently, the 1860 map is in fact much earlier than that date. Reply
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
All bar one Added: 3 Jun 2021 15:50 GMT	All Bar One The capitalisation is wrong Reply
Carolyn Hirst New Road, E1 Added: 16 Jul 2022 15:21 GMT	Henry James Hirst My second great grandfather Henry James Hirst was born at 18 New Road on 11 February 1861. He was the eighth of the eleven children of Rowland and Isabella Hirst. I think that this part of New Road was also known at the time as Gloucester Terrace. Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Scott Hatton Savile Row, W1S Added: 30 Jan 2023 11:28 GMT	The Beatles on a London rooftop The Beatles’ rooftop concert took place on the rooftop of the Apple Corps building in London. It was their final public performance as a band and was unannounced, attracting a crowd of onlookers. The concert lasted for 42 minutes and included nine songs. The concert is remembered as a seminal moment in the history of rock music and remains one of the most famous rock performances of all time. Reply
Michael Upham Bala Place, SE16 Added: 16 Jan 2023 21:16 GMT	Bala Place, SE16 My grandfather was born at 2 Bala Place. Reply
Nant Street, E2 Added: 15 Jan 2023 09:49 GMT	The Bombing of Nant Street WW2 My uncle with his young son and baby daughter were killed in the bombing of Nant Street in WW2. His wife had gone to be with her mother whilst the bombing of the area was taking place, and so survived. Cannot imagine how she felt when she returned to see her home flattened and to be told of the death of her husband and children. Reply
Brian J MacIntyre Dolphin Square Added: 8 Jan 2023 17:27 GMT	Malcolm Davey at Raleigh House, Dolphin Square My former partner, actor Malcolm Davey, lived at Raleigh House, Dolphin Square, for many years until his death. He was a wonderful human being and an even better friend. A somewhat underrated actor, but loved by many, including myself. I miss you terribly, Malcolm. Here’s to you and to History, our favourite subject. Love Always - Brian J MacIntyre Minnesota, USA Reply
Robert Burns Abourne Street, W9 Added: 5 Jan 2023 17:46 GMT	1 Abourne Street My mother, and my Aunt and my Aunt’s family lived at number 1 Abourne Street. I remember visitingn my aunt Win Housego, and the Housego family there. If I remember correctly virtually opposite number 1, onthe corner was the Lord Amberley pub. Reply
Southam Street, W10 Added: 30 Dec 2022 21:41 GMT	Southam Street, W10 do any one remember J&A DEMOLITON at harrow rd kensal green my dad work for them in a aec 6 wheel tipper got a photo of him in it Reply
Fumblina Red Lion Added: 26 Dec 2022 18:59 GMT	Detailed history of Red Lion I’m not the author but this blog by Dick Weindling and Marianne Colloms has loads of really clear information about the history of the Red Lion which people might appreciate. Source: ‘Professor Morris’ and the Red Lion, Kilburn Reply
BG Lancing Street, NW1 Added: 20 Dec 2022 02:58 GMT	Lancing Street, NW1 LANCING STREET Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

29 Aldgate High Street 29 Aldgate High Street is a demolished property, originally on the north side of Aldgate High Street..

29 Aldgate High Street

46 Aldgate High Street This Grade II Listed office building is one of the few timber-framed buildings in the City that predates the Great Fire of 1666.

46 Aldgate High Street

Aldgate Aldgate was one of the massive gates which defended the City from Roman times until 1760.

Aldgate

Aldgate bus station Aldgate Bus Station serves the Aldgate area of the City of London.

Aldgate bus station

Aldgate Holy Trinity Priory The Holy Trinity Priory, also known as Christchurch Aldgate, was a priory of Austin canons (Black Canons) founded around 1108 by Queen Matilda of England.

Aldgate Holy Trinity Priory

Aldgate Pump Aldgate Pump is a historic water pump, located at the junction where Aldgate meets Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Street.

Aldgate Pump

All Hallows Staining All Hallows Staining was a church located at the junction of Mark Lane and Dunster Court.

All Hallows Staining

Bank of England The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom.

Bank of England

Bevis Marks Synagogue Bevis Marks Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in the United Kingdom.

Bevis Marks Synagogue

Boar’s Head Theatre The Boar’s Head Theatre was an inn-yard theatre in the Whitechapel area.

Boar’s Head Theatre

Great Synagogue of London The Great Synagogue of London was, for centuries, the centre of Ashkenazi synagogue and Jewish life in London. It was destroyed during World War II, in the Blitz.

Great Synagogue of London

Holy Trinity, Minories Holy Trinity, Minories was a Church of England parish church outside the eastern boundaries of the City of London, but within the Liberties of the Tower of London.

Holy Trinity, Minories

London Metal Exchange The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the futures exchange with the world’s largest market in options and futures contracts on base and other metals.

London Metal Exchange

Mark Lane station Mark Lane is a disused Circle and District line Underground station.

Mark Lane station

Minories Minories was the western terminus of the London and Blackwall Railway.

Minories

Portsoken Portsoken is one of 25 wards in the City of London, each electing an alderman to the Court of Aldermen and commoners (the City equivalent of a councillor) elected to the Court of Common Council of the City of London Corporation.

Portsoken

St Augustine Papey St Augustine Papey was a mediaeval church in the City of London situated just south of London Wall.

St Augustine Papey

St Botolph’s St. Botolph’s without Aldgate, located on Aldgate High Street, has existed for over a thousand years.

St Botolph’s

St Ethelburga’s church St Ethelburga-the-Virgin within Bishopsgate is a church in the City of London.

St Ethelburga’s church

St Gabriel Fenchurch St Gabriel Fenchurch (or Fen Church) was a parish church in the City of London, destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt.

St Gabriel Fenchurch

St James Duke’s Place St James Duke’s Place was an Anglican parish church in the Aldgate ward of the City of London.

St James Duke’s Place

St Katharine Cree St Katharine Cree is a Church of England church on the north side of Leadenhall Street near Leadenhall Market.

St Katharine Cree

St Magnus-the-Martyr St Magnus the Martyr church is dedicated to St Magnus the Martyr, earl of Orkney, who died on 16 April 1116.

St Magnus-the-Martyr

St Mary Axe St Mary Axe was a medieval parish in the City of London whose name survives as that of the street which formerly occupied it.

St Mary Axe

St Mary Axe St Mary Axe was a mediaeval church situated just north of Leadenhall Street on a site now occupied by Fitzwilliam House.

St Mary Axe

St Olave Hart Street St Olave’s Church is a Church of England church located on the corner of Hart Street and Seething Lane.

St Olave Hart Street

The 1912 streets of Spitalfields The fascinating story of one man’s random walk in 1912

The 1912 streets of Spitalfields

Wentworth Street Turn-of-the-century fashion in east London.

Wentworth Street

NEARBY STREETS

100 Bishopsgate, EC2M 100 Bishopsgate is a development of two mixed-use buildings on Bishopsgate in London.

100 Bishopsgate, EC2M

20 Fenchurch Street, EC3M 20 Fenchurch Street is a commercial skyscraper in the City of London.

20 Fenchurch Street, EC3M

99 Bishopsgate, EC2N 99 Bishopsgate is a commercial skyscraper located on Bishopsgate, a major thoroughfare in the City of London financial district.

99 Bishopsgate, EC2N

Abchurch Lane, EC4N Abchurch Lane was first mentioned as Abbechurche Lane in 1291.

Abchurch Lane, EC4N

Abchurch Yard, EC4N First mentioned in 1732, Abchurch Yard was built on the St Mary Abchurch churchyard.

Abchurch Yard, EC4N

Adams Court, EC2R Adam’s Court is thought to be named for Sir Thomas Adams.

Adams Court, EC2R

Adelaide House, EC3R Adelaide House is a Grade II listed Art Deco office building in the City of London.

Adelaide House, EC3R

Alderman’s Walk, EC2M Alderman’s Walk was formerly Dashwood’s Walk, for Francis Dashwood, who lived here in the 18th century.

Alderman’s Walk, EC2M

Aldgate High Street, EC3N Once the route to one of the six original gates of the Wall of London, Aldgate High Street has an important place in medieval London’s history.

Aldgate High Street, EC3N

Aldgate House, EC3N Aldgate House is a building adjacent to Aldgate station.

Aldgate House, EC3N

Aldgate Square, EC3N Aldgate Square is a location in London.

Aldgate Square, EC3N

Aldgate, EC3N Aldgate was the easternmost gateway through the London Wall leading from the City of London to Whitechapel and the East End.

Aldgate, EC3N

All Hallows Court, EC3M All Hallows Court ran on the northern side of All Hallows Lombard Street church.

All Hallows Court, EC3M

America Square, EC3N America Square is a street and small square, built in about 1760 and dedicated to the American colonies.

America Square, EC3N

Angel Court, EC2R Angel Court is named after a long demolished inn of this name.

Angel Court, EC2R

Arcadia Court, E1 Arcadia Court is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Arcadia Court, E1

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

Arthur Street, EC4R

Artizan Street, E1 A street within the E1 postcode

Artizan Street, E1

Austin Friars, EC2N Austin Friars was an Augustinian friary from its foundation in the 1260s, until its dissolution in 1538.

Austin Friars, EC2N

Back Alley, EC3N Back Alley is a small alleyway off of Northumberland Alley.

Back Alley, EC3N

Bakers Hall Court, EC3R Bakers’ Hall Court lies at the end of Harp Street.

Bakers Hall Court, EC3R

Ball Alley, EC3M Ball Alley existed on maps between the 1750s and 1950s.

Ball Alley, EC3M

Ball Court, EC3V Ball Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Ball Court, EC3V

Bartholomew Lane, EC3V Bartholomew Lane runs between the junction of Lothbury and Throgmorton Street in the north to Threadneedle Street in the south.

Bartholomew Lane, EC3V

Bell Inn Yard, EC3M Bell Inn Yard has also been simply ’Bell Yard’ on maps.

Bell Inn Yard, EC3M

Bells Alley, EC2N Bells Alley is a road in the SW6 postcode area

Bells Alley, EC2N

Bengal Court, EC3V Bengal Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Bengal Court, EC3V

Bevis Marks, EC3A Bevis Marks is a short street in the ward of Aldgate in the City of London.

Bevis Marks, EC3A

Billiter Square, EC3M Billiter Square is a former square in the City of London.

Billiter Square, EC3M

Billiter Street, EC3M Billiter Street was once home to a medieval bell foundry.

Billiter Street, EC3M

Birchin Lane, EC3V Birchin Lane was owned by a medieval gentleman called Birchervere.

Birchin Lane, EC3V

Bishopsgate, EC3V Bishopsgate is named after one of the original eight gates in the London Wall.

Bishopsgate, EC3V

Black Raven Alley, EC4R Black Raven Alley ran south from 105 Upper Thames Street down to Swan Wharf, just to the west of London Bridge.

Black Raven Alley, EC4R

Botolph Alley, EC3R Botolph Alley is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Botolph Alley, EC3R

Botolph Lane, EC3R Botolph Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Botolph Lane, EC3R

Brabant Court, EC3M Brabant Court off Philpot Lane, probably marks the site of a settlement of immigrants from Brabant, a province now split between Belgium and the Netherlands.

Brabant Court, EC3M

Brune House, E1 Brune House is a block on Toynbee Street

Brune House, E1

Bulls Head Passage, EC3M Bulls Head Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Bulls Head Passage, EC3M

Bury Street, EC3A Bury Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.

Bury Street, EC3A

Byward Street, EC3R Byward Street was laid out between 1895 and 1906.

Byward Street, EC3R

Camomile Street, EC3A Camomile Street is a short street in the City of London

Camomile Street, EC3A

Capel Court, EC2R On the east side of the Bank of England turn into Bartholomew Lane. Capel Court is off to the east.

Capel Court, EC2R

Carlisle Avenue, EC3N Carlisle Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

Carlisle Avenue, EC3N

Castle Court, EC3V Castle Court leads off Birchin Lane.

Castle Court, EC3V

Cavendish Court, EC3A Cavendish Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.

Cavendish Court, EC3A

Centennium House, EC3R A block within the EC3R postcode

Centennium House, EC3R

Change Alley, EC3V Change Alley is a thoroughfare between Lombard Street and Cornhill in London’s financial district.

Change Alley, EC3V

Circus, EC3N Circus was built between 1768 and 1774 to the designs of George Dance the Younger.

Circus, EC3N

Clements Lane, EC4N Clements Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4N postal area.

Clements Lane, EC4N

Clothier Street, EC3A A street within the E1, postcode

Clothier Street, EC3A

Clothworkers Hall, EC3M Clothworkers Hall is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Clothworkers Hall, EC3M

Cobb Street, E1 Cobb Street was laid out in 1899-1904 by Sir Algernon Osborn.

Cobb Street, E1

Colchester Street, EC3N Before its was renamed and extended in 1923, Colchester Street was a side street near to the Tower of London.

Colchester Street, EC3N

Coopers Row, EC3N Coopers Row is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

Coopers Row, EC3N

Copthall Avenue, EC2N Copthall Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.

Copthall Avenue, EC2N

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

Copthall Avenue, EC2R

Corbet Court, EC3V Corbet Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Corbet Court, EC3V

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

Cornhill, EC3V

Creechurch Lane, EC3A Creechurch Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.

Creechurch Lane, EC3A

Crescent, EC3N Crescent lies behind Tower Gateway.

Crescent, EC3N

Crinoline Mews, E1 A street within the E1 postcode

Crinoline Mews, E1

Crosby Square, EC3A Crosby Square is a location in London.

Crosby Square, EC3A

Crosswall, EC3N Crosswall was formerly named John Street, after King John.

Crosswall, EC3N

Crutched Friars, EC3N Crutched Friars is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

Crutched Friars, EC3N

Cullum Street, EC3M Cullum Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.

Cullum Street, EC3M

Cunard Place, EC3A Cunard Place leads south off Leadenhall Street.

Cunard Place, EC3A

Cutler Street, EC3A Cutler Street runs north off Houndsditch.

Cutler Street, EC3A

Denning Point 33 Commercial Street, E1 A block within the E1 postcode

Denning Point 33 Commercial Street, E1

Devonshire Row, EC3A Devonshire Row leads off Bishopsgate.

Devonshire Row, EC3A

Devonshire Square, E1 Devonshire Square lies at the end of Devonshire Row.

Devonshire Square, E1

Drapers Gardens, EC2N Drapers Gardens is a block in Copthall Avenue.

Drapers Gardens, EC2N

Dukes Place, EC3A Duke’s Place was formerly called Duke Street.

Dukes Place, EC3A

Dunster Court, EC3R Dunster Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Dunster Court, EC3R

Eastcheap, EC3M A street within the EC3M postcode

Eastcheap, EC3M

Eastcheap, EC3R Eastcheap is the western continuation of Great Tower Street towards the Monument junction.

Eastcheap, EC3R

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

Exchange Steps, EC3V

Fen Court, EC3M Fen Court is a location in London.

Fen Court, EC3M

Fenchurch Avenue, EC3M Hogarth Court runs from Fenchurch Avenue to Fenchurch Street.

Fenchurch Avenue, EC3M

Fenchurch Avenue, EC3M Fenchurch Avenue runs from Lime Street to Billiter Street.

Fenchurch Avenue, EC3M

Fenchurch Buildings, EC3A Fenchurch Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.

Fenchurch Buildings, EC3A

Fenchurch Mews, EC3M A street within the EC3M postcode

Fenchurch Mews, EC3M

Fenchurch Place, EC3M Fenchurch Place is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.

Fenchurch Place, EC3M

Fenchurch Street, EC3M Fenchurch Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.

Fenchurch Street, EC3M

Finch Lane, EC3V Finch Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Finch Lane, EC3V

Finsbury Circus Gardens, EC2M Finsbury Circus Gardens is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

Finsbury Circus Gardens, EC2M

Fish Street Hill, EC3M Fish Street Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Fish Street Hill, EC3M

French Ordinary Court, EC3M French Ordinary Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.

French Ordinary Court, EC3M

George Yard, EC3V George Yard is a yard off of Lombard Street.

George Yard, EC3V

Goodman’s Yard, E1 Goodman’s Yard is a street between Minories and Mansell Street.

Goodman’s Yard, E1

Goodmans Yard, E1 A street within the E1 postcode

Goodmans Yard, E1

Goring Street, EC3A Goring Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.

Goring Street, EC3A

Goulston Street, E1 Goulston Street is a thoroughfare running north-south from Wentworth Street to Whitechapel High Street.

Goulston Street, E1

Gracechurch Street, EC3V Gracechurch Street is in the heart of Roman Londinium - it runs directly over the site of the basilica and forum.

Gracechurch Street, EC3V

Gravel Lane, E1 Gravel Lane is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Gravel Lane, E1

Great St Helen’s, EC3A This is a street in the EC3A postcode area

Great St Helen’s, EC3A

Great Swan Alley, EC2R Great Swan Alley is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Great Swan Alley, EC2R

Great Tower Street, EC3R Great Tower Street, originally known just as Tower Street, forms an eastern continuation of Eastcheap.

Great Tower Street, EC3R

Great Winchester Street, EC2N Great Winchester Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.

Great Winchester Street, EC2N

Harp Lane, EC3R Harp Lane once connected Thames Street with Great Tower Street.

Harp Lane, EC3R

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

Harrow Place, E1

Hart Street, EC3R Hart Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Hart Street, EC3R

Haydon Street, E1 The eastern end of Haydon Street was called Mansell Passage.

Haydon Street, E1

Haydon Street, EC3N Haydon Street heads east from the Minories.

Haydon Street, EC3N

Heneage Lane, EC3A Heneage Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.

Heneage Lane, EC3A

Houndsditch, EC3A Houndsditch runs through the Portsoken and Bishopsgate Without wards of the City of London - areas traditionally considered part of the East End.

Houndsditch, EC3A

Ibex House, EC3N Residential block

Ibex House, EC3N

Idol Lane, EC3R Idol Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Idol Lane, EC3R

India Street, EC3N India Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

India Street, EC3N

Irongate House, EC3A Residential block

Irongate House, EC3A

Jewry Street, EC3N Jewry Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

Jewry Street, EC3N

King William Street, EC4N The northern section of King William Street runs diagonally northwards of the Monument junction.

King William Street, EC4N

King William Street, EC4R King William Street runs from a junction with Lombard Street to Monument junction from where continues south into London Bridge.

King William Street, EC4R

Laurence Pountney Lane, EC4N Laurence Pountney Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4N postal area.

Laurence Pountney Lane, EC4N

Leadenhall Market, EC3M Leadenhall Market is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Leadenhall Market, EC3M

Leadenhall Market, EC3M Leadenhall Market is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.

Leadenhall Market, EC3M

Leadenhall Place, EC3V Leadenhall Place is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Leadenhall Place, EC3V

Leadenhall Street, EC3M Leadenhall Street is a road in the EC3N postcode area

Leadenhall Street, EC3M

Leadenhall Street, EC3P Leadenhall Street - historic home to both the East India Company and Lloyd’s of London.

Leadenhall Street, EC3P

Leadenhall Street, EC3V Leadenhall Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Leadenhall Street, EC3V

Leadenhall Street, EC3V Leadenhall Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.

Leadenhall Street, EC3V

Leyden Street, E1 Leyden Street was laid out in 1899-1904 by Sir Algernon Osborn.

Leyden Street, E1

Library Square, EC3N Library Square is a road in the E1 postcode area

Library Square, EC3N

Lime Street, EC3M The name Lime Street comes from the lime burners who once sold lime from there for use in construction.

Lime Street, EC3M

Little Somerset Street, E1 Little Somerset Street was originally called Harrow Alley but colloquially known as ’Blood Alley.’

Little Somerset Street, E1

Lloyd’s Avenue, EC3N Lloyd?s Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

Lloyd’s Avenue, EC3N

Lloyd’s Avenue, EC3N A street within the EC3N postcode

Lloyd’s Avenue, EC3N

Lloyds Avenue, EC3N Lloyds Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

Lloyds Avenue, EC3N

Lombard Court, EC3V Lombard Court is a small street between Gracechurch Street and Clements Lane in the heart of London’s financial district.

Lombard Court, EC3V

Lombard Street, EC3V Lombard Street has a history stretching back to medieval times.

Lombard Street, EC3V

London Street, EC3M London Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

London Street, EC3M

London Wall, EC2M London Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

London Wall, EC2M

Lovat Lane, EC3R Lovat Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Lovat Lane, EC3R

Mansell Street, E1 Mansell Street runs north-south on the City of London border.

Mansell Street, E1

Mansell Street, EC3N Mansell Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

Mansell Street, EC3N

Mark Lane, EC3R Mark Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Mark Lane, EC3R

Martin Lane, EC4N Martin Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4R postal area.

Martin Lane, EC4N

Middlesex Street, E1 Middlesex Street is home to the Petticoat Lane Market.

Middlesex Street, E1

Middlesex Street, EC3A Middlesex Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.

Middlesex Street, EC3A

Mincing Lane, EC3R Mincing Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Mincing Lane, EC3R

Minories, EC3N Minories is one of the old streets of the City of London.

Minories, EC3N

Minster Court, EC3R Minster Court can be found on Mincing Lane

Minster Court, EC3R

Minsters Pavement, EC3A Minsters Pavement is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.

Minsters Pavement, EC3A

Mitre Avenue, EC3A Mitre Avenue is one of the streets of London in the E17 postal area.

Mitre Avenue, EC3A

Mitre Square, EC3A Mitre Square is a small square in the City of London.

Mitre Square, EC3A

Mitre Street, EC3A Mitre Street connects Creechurch Lane with the Aldgate.

Mitre Street, EC3A

Monument Street, EC3R Monument Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Monument Street, EC3R

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

Moorgate Place, EC2R

Munster Court, EC3R Munster Court is a road in the SW6 postcode area

Munster Court, EC3R

Muscovy Street, EC3R Muscovy Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Muscovy Street, EC3R

New Broad Street House, EC2M New Broad Street House is a block on Old Broad Street

New Broad Street House, EC2M

New Broad Street, EC2M New Broad Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

New Broad Street, EC2M

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

New Goulston Street, E1

New London Street, EC3R New London Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

New London Street, EC3R

Nicholas Lane, EC3V Nicholas Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Nicholas Lane, EC3V

Nicholas Lane, EC4N Nicholas Lane has two non-contiguous sections, separated by King William Street.

Nicholas Lane, EC4N

Old Broad Street, EC2M Old Broad Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2M postal area.

Old Broad Street, EC2M

Old Broad Street, EC2N Old Broad Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.

Old Broad Street, EC2N

Old Castle Street, E1 Old Castle Street runs north-south from Wentworth Street to Whitechapel High Street, the southern section of which incorporates the former Castle Alley, murder site of Ripper victim Alice McKenzie.

Old Castle Street, E1

Pepys Street, EC3N Pepys Street links Seething Lane in the west to Cooper’s Row in the east.

Pepys Street, EC3N

Petticoat Square, E1 A street within the postcode

Petticoat Square, E1

Petticoat Tower, E1 Petticoat Tower is a block on Middlesex Street

Petticoat Tower, E1

Philpot Lane, EC3M Philpot Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.

Philpot Lane, EC3M

Plantain Gardens, EC3M A street within the EC3V postcode

Plantain Gardens, EC3M

Plantain Gardens, EC3M A street within the EC3V postcode

Plantain Gardens, EC3M

Plantation Lane, EC3M Plantation Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Plantation Lane, EC3M

Plantation Place, EC3R Plantation Place takes its name from a previous Plantation House, once the recognised centre of the tea trade.

Plantation Place, EC3R

Plough Court, EC4R Plough Court was named for the Plough tavern which stood here.

Plough Court, EC4R

Pomell Way, E1 Pomell Way is a road in the E1 postcode area

Pomell Way, E1

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

Popes Head Alley, EC3V

Portsoken Street, EC3N Portsoken Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Portsoken Street, EC3N

Providian House, EC3R A block within the EC3R postcode

Providian House, EC3R

Pudding Lane, EC3R Pudding Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

Pudding Lane, EC3R

Resolution Plaza, E1 Resolution Plaza is a location in London.

Resolution Plaza, E1

Rood Lane, EC3M Rood Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3M postal area.

Rood Lane, EC3M

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

Royal Court, EC3V

Royal Exchange Avenue, EC2R Royal Exchange Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Royal Exchange Avenue, EC2R

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

Royal Exchange Buildings, EC3V

Royal Exchange Steps, EC2R Royal Exchange Steps is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

Royal Exchange Steps, EC2R

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

Royal Exchange, EC3V

Saracen’s Head Yard, EC3N Saracen’s Head Yard was to the south of Aldgate.

Saracen’s Head Yard, EC3N

Savage Gardens, EC3N Savage Gardens connects Crutched Friars in the north to Trinity Square in the south, crossing Pepys Street.

Savage Gardens, EC3N

Seething Lane, EC3R Seething Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

Seething Lane, EC3R

Ship Tavern Passage, EC3M Ship Tavern Passage is a City of London alleyway.

Ship Tavern Passage, EC3M

Shorter Street, E1 Shorter Street is a location in London.

Shorter Street, E1

Shorter Street, EC3N Shorter Street is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Shorter Street, EC3N

Shorter Street, EC3N Shorter Street is a road in the EC3N postcode area

Shorter Street, EC3N

Sky Garden, EC3M Sky Garden is a location in London.

Sky Garden, EC3M

St Botolph Street, EC3A St Botolph Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.

St Botolph Street, EC3A

St Clare House, EC3N St Clare House is sited on Minories

St Clare House, EC3N

St Clare Street, EC3N St Clare Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

St Clare Street, EC3N

St Dunstans Hill, EC3R St Dunstans Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

St Dunstans Hill, EC3R

St Georges Lane, EC3R St Georges Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

St Georges Lane, EC3R

St Helen’s Place, EC3A St Helen’s Place runs east from Bishopsgate.

St Helen’s Place, EC3A

St James’s Passage, EC3A St James’s Passage was formerly known as Church Passage.

St James’s Passage, EC3A

St James’s Place, EC3A St James’s Place was an open square, formerly Broad Court, which held a daily market that sold fruits of various kinds.

St James’s Place, EC3A

St Mary At Hill, EC3R St Mary At Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC3R postal area.

St Mary At Hill, EC3R

St Mary Axe, EC3A St Mary Axe is an ancient street of the City of London.

St Mary Axe, EC3A

St Michaels Alley, EC3V St Michael’s Alley was the centre of the 17th century London coffee house phenomenon.

St Michaels Alley, EC3V

St Michaels Rectory, EC3V St Michaels Rectory is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

St Michaels Rectory, EC3V

St. Mary’s Grove, EC3A Jeffrey’s Square disappeared under the St Mary Axe development.

St. Mary’s Grove, EC3A

Staple Hall, EC3A Staple Hall is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.

Staple Hall, EC3A

Stock Exchange Building, EC2N Stock Exchange Building is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.

Stock Exchange Building, EC2N

Stone House Court, EC3A Stone House Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.

Stone House Court, EC3A

Stoney Lane, EC3A Stoney Lane is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

Stoney Lane, EC3A

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

Swan Lane, EC4R

Talbot Court, EC3V Talbot Court was next to the Talbot Inn until the Great Fire of London.

Talbot Court, EC3V

The Community Centre, E1 The Community Centre is a location in London.

The Community Centre, E1

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

The Courtyard, EC3V

The Queen’s Steps, EC3N The Queen’s Steps is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

The Queen’s Steps, EC3N

Threadneedle Street, EC2N Threadneedle Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2R postal area.

Threadneedle Street, EC2N

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

Threadneedle Street, EC3V

Throgmorton Avenue, EC2N Throgmorton Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.

Throgmorton Avenue, EC2N

Throgmorton Street, EC3V The name of Throgmorton Street is a corruption of the name of Nicholas Throckmorton, Elizabeth I’s ambassador to France and Scotland.

Throgmorton Street, EC3V

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

Tower Hill Terrace, EC3N Tower Hill Terrace is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

Tower Hill Terrace, EC3N

Tower Hill, EC3N Tower Hill is a street and square, northwest of the Tower of London.

Tower Hill, EC3N

Trinity Square, EC3N Trinity Square is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

Trinity Square, EC3N

Undershaft, EC3P Undershaft is a road in the EC3P postcode area

Undershaft, EC3P

Union Court, EC2N Union Court is an alleyway off of Broad Street.

Union Court, EC2N

Vine Street, EC3N Vine Street is one of the streets of London in the EC3N postal area.

Vine Street, EC3N

Warnford Court, EC2N Warnford Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2N postal area.

Warnford Court, EC2N

Wentworth Street, E1 Wentworth Street runs east-west from the junction of Brick Lane, Osborn Street and Old Montague Street to Middlesex Street.

Wentworth Street, E1

White Kennett Street, EC3A White Kennett Street was named after a Bishop of Peterborough.

White Kennett Street, EC3A

White Lion Court, EC2R White Lion Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3V postal area.

White Lion Court, EC2R

Whittington Avenue, EC3A Whittington Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.

Whittington Avenue, EC3A

Wormwood Street, EC2N Wormwood Street refers to the wormwood plant which used to grow on the London Wall and in other areas of wasteland in the City.

Wormwood Street, EC2N

Wrestlers Court, EC3A Wrestlers Court is one of the streets of London in the EC3A postal area.

Wrestlers Court, EC3A

NEARBY PUBS

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All Bar One All Bar One is a bar on Byward Street.

All Bar One

All Bar One Houndsditch

Babble City

Balls Brothers @ Minster Court

Balls Brothers Austin Friars

Balls Brothers Wine Bar

Balls Brothers, Mark Lane

Bar 20

Bedales Wine Bar

Bierschenke Bierkellar

Brokers Wine Bar

City Flogger

City Sports Pub and Grill

Craft Beer Co

Crosse Keys

Davys, 1 Plantation Place

Devonshire Terrace

Dirty Martini Monument

Jamies

Jamies St Mary At Hill

Pause

River Gardens The Moniker is a bar in the City of London.

Roma

Still and Star The Still & Star was on Little Somerset Street near to Aldgate High Street.

The Bell The Bell is on the non-City of London side of Middlesex Street.

The Bell

The Bootlegger’s Club Ltd

The Britannia

The Bull The Bull dates back to the 17th century and stands on Devonshire Row.

The Culpeper The Culpeper used to be called the Princess Alice.

The Hung Drawn & Quartered

The Hydrant, Equitable House

The Walrus & The Carpenter

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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.

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Bank station Credit: IG/steven.maddison TUM image id: 1653840363 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:	The Great Synagogue of London (1810) Credit: Thomas Rowlandson (1756â TUM image id: 1518368926 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Boar’s Head was located on the north side of Whitechapel High Street. The Boar’s Head was originally an inn, which was built in the 1530s; it underwent two renovations for use as a playhouse: first, in 1598, when a simple stage was erected, and a second, more elaborate renovation in 1599. Credit: Unknown TUM image id: 1518792376 Licence:	The Aldgate Pump (1874) Aldgate Pump is a historic water pump located at the junction where Aldgate meets Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Street. The pump is notable for its long, and sometimes dark history, as well as its cultural significance as a symbolic start point of the East End of London. The term "East of Aldgate Pump" is used as a synonym for the East End or for East London as a whole. Credit: Wellcome Images TUM image id: 1518792844 Licence:
Bevis Marks Synagogue Credit: John Salmon TUM image id: 1519475277 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Exterior of St Katherine Cree, City of London Credit: Prioryman TUM image id: 1519729630 Licence: CC BY 2.0	St James Duke Credit: Robert William Billings and John Le Keux TUM image id: 1520552156 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Third Goodmans Fields Theatre, Great Alie Street (1801) Credit: W. W. Hutchings TUM image id: 1520855916 Licence:	Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) addressing a "smoking debate" at Toynbee Hall (1902) TUM image id: 1660651336 Licence: CC BY 2.0
A drawing published in 1907 of the west front of the Church of Holy Trinity, Minories Credit: Uncredited TUM image id: 1523993568 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Petticoat Lane in the 1920s Credit: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) TUM image id: 1523993996 Licence:	Byward Tower, 1893 TUM image id: 1556882285 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Southwark Cathedral Credit: IG/aleks london diary TUM image id: 1653856025 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Established in 1745 as The Old Jerusalem, a drinking house took the name of Dirty Dick’s in 1814 and adopted his story along with it. The original of Dirty Dick was Nathaniel Bentley, a successful merchant with a hardware shop and warehouse in Leadenhall Street in the mid-eighteenth century. After his bride-to-be died on their wedding day - so the legend goes - he never cleaned up again, never washed or changed his clothes. Bentley died in 1809, and the Bishopsgate Distillers appropriated this story of the notorious dirty hardware merchant, adorning their bar with dead cats and cobwebs to perpetuate the legend. Credit: Spitalfields Life TUM image id: 1641301488 Licence:

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Bank station
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The Great Synagogue of London (1810)
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The Boar’s Head was located on the north side of Whitechapel High Street. The Boar’s Head was originally an inn, which was built in the 1530s; it underwent two renovations for use as a playhouse: first, in 1598, when a simple stage was erected, and a second, more elaborate renovation in 1599.
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The Aldgate Pump (1874) Aldgate Pump is a historic water pump located at the junction where Aldgate meets Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Street. The pump is notable for its long, and sometimes dark history, as well as its cultural significance as a symbolic start point of the East End of London. The term "East of Aldgate Pump" is used as a synonym for the East End or for East London as a whole.
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Bevis Marks Synagogue
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Exterior of St Katherine Cree, City of London
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St James Duke
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A drawing published in 1907 of the west front of the Church of Holy Trinity, Minories
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Petticoat Lane in the 1920s
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Byward Tower, 1893
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