London City House, EC1V

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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
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
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
Barry J. Page Highbury & Islington Added: 27 Jul 2022 19:41 GMT	Highbury Corner V1 Explosion Grandma described the V1 explosion at Highbury Corner on many occasions. She was working in the scullery when the flying bomb landed. The blast shattered all the windows in the block of flats and blew off the bolt on her front door. As she looked out the front room window, people in various states of injury and shock were making their way along Highbury Station Road. One man in particular, who was bleeding profusely from glass shard wounds to his neck, insisted in getting home to see if his family was all right. Others were less fortunate. Len, the local newsagent, comforted a man, who had lost both legs caused by the blast, until the victim succumbed to his injuries. The entire area was ravaged and following are statistics. The flying bomb landed during lunch hour (12:46 p.m.) on June 27th 1944. 26 people lost their lives, 84 were seriously injured and 71 slightly injured. 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
Martin Eaton Shoreditch Added: 14 Oct 2021 03:56 GMT	Boundary Estate Sunbury, Taplow House. Reply
STEPHEN JACKSON Fellows Court, E2 Added: 14 Nov 2021 17:25 GMT	Fellows Court, E2 my family moved into the tower block 13th floor (maisonette), in 1967 after our street Lenthall rd e8 was demolished, we were one of the first families in the new block. A number of families from our street were rehoused in this and the adjoining flats. Inside toilet and central heating, all very modern at the time, plus eventually a tarmac football pitch in the grounds,(the cage), with a goal painted by the kids on the brick wall of the railway. 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
Tom Blackfriars Added: 21 May 2021 23:07 GMT	Blackfriars What is, or was, Bodies Bridge? Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Christine D Elliott Blockhouse Street, SE15 Added: 20 Mar 2023 15:52 GMT	The Blute Family My grandparents, Frederick William Blute & Alice Elizabeth Blute nee: Warnham lived at 89 Blockhouse Street Deptford from around 1917.They had six children. 1. Alice Maragret Blute (my mother) 2. Frederick William Blute 3. Charles Adrian Blute 4. Violet Lillian Blute 5. Donald Blute 6. Stanley Vincent Blute (Lived 15 months). I lived there with my family from 1954 (Birth) until 1965 when we were re-housed for regeneration to the area. I attended Ilderton Road School. Very happy memories of that time. Reply
Pearl Foster Dukes Place, EC3A Added: 20 Mar 2023 12:22 GMT	Dukes Place, EC3A Until his death in 1767, Daniel Nunes de Lara worked from his home in Dukes Street as a Pastry Cook. It was not until much later the street was renamed Dukes Place. Daniel and his family attended the nearby Bevis Marks synagogue for Sephardic Jews. The Ashkenazi Great Synagogue was established in Duke Street, which meant Daniel’s business perfectly situated for his occupation as it allowed him to cater for both congregations. Reply
Dr Paul Flewers Hawthorne Close, N1 Added: 9 Mar 2023 18:12 GMT	Some Brief Notes on Hawthorne Close / Hawthorne Street My great-grandparents lived in the last house on the south side of Hawthorne Street, no 13, and my grandmother Alice Knopp and her brothers and sisters grew up there. Alice Knopp married Charles Flewers, from nearby Hayling Road, and moved to Richmond, Surrey, where I was born. Leonard Knopp married Esther Gutenberg and lived there until the street was demolished in the mid-1960s, moving on to Tottenham. Uncle Len worked in the fur trade, then ran a pet shop in, I think, the Kingsland Road. From the back garden, one could see the almshouses in the Balls Pond Road. There was an ink factory at the end of the street, which I recall as rather malodorous. Reply
KJH Andover Road, N7 Added: 7 Mar 2023 17:14 GMT	Andover Road, N7 (1939 - 1957) My aunt, Doris nee Curtis (aka Jo) and her husband John Hawkins (aka Jack) ran a small general stores at 92 Andover Road (N7). I have found details in the 1939 register but don’t know how long before that it was opened.He died in 1957. In the 1939 register he is noted as being an ARP warden for Islington warden Reply
The Queens Head Added: 2 Mar 2023 13:50 GMT	The Queens Head Queens Head demolished and a NISA supermarket and flats built in its place. 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
Fumblina Whitfield Street, W1T Added: 21 Feb 2023 11:39 GMT	Error on 1800 map numbering for John Street The 1800 map of Whitfield Street (17 zoom) has an error in the numbering shown on the map. The houses are numbered up the right hand side of John Street and Upper John Street to #47 and then are numbered down the left hand side until #81 BUT then continue from 52-61 instead of 82-91. Reply
P Cash Woburn Place, WC1H Added: 19 Feb 2023 08:03 GMT	Occupants of 19-29 Woburn Place The Industrial Tribunals (later changed to Employment Tribunals) moved (from its former location on Ebury Bridge Road to 19-29 Woburn Place sometime in the late 1980s (I believe). 19-29 Woburn Place had nine floors in total (one in the basement and two in its mansard roof and most of the building was occupied by the Tribunals The ’Head Office’ of the tribunals, occupied space on the 7th, 6th and 2nd floors, whilst one of the largest of the regional offices (London North but later called London Central) occupied space in the basement, ground and first floor. The expansive ground floor entrance had white marble flooring and a security desk. Behind (on evey floor) lay a square (& uncluttered) lobby space, which was flanked on either side by lifts. On the rear side was an elegant staircase, with white marble steps, brass inlays and a shiny brass handrail which spiralled around an open well. Both staircase, stairwell and lifts ran the full height of the building. On all floors from 1st upwards, staff toilets were tucked on either side of the staircase (behind the lifts). Basement Floor - Tribunal hearing rooms, dormant files store and secure basement space for Head Office. Public toilets. Geound Floor - The ’post’ roon sat next to the entrance in the northern side, the rest of which was occupied by the private offices of the full time Tribunal judiciary. Thw largest office belonged to the Regional Chair and was situated on the far corner (overlooking Tavistock Square) The secretary to the Regional Chair occupied a small office next door. The south side of this floor was occupied by the large open plan General Office for the administration, a staff kitchen & rest room and the private offices of the Regional Secretary (office manager) and their deputy. First Dloor - Tribunal hearing rooms; separate public waiting rooms for Applicants & Respondents; two small rooms used by Counsel (on a ’whoever arrives first’ bases) and a small private rest room for use by tribunal lay members. Second Floor - Tribunal Hearing Rooms; Tribunal Head Office - HR & Estate Depts & other tennants. Third Floor - other tennants Fourth Floor - other tennants Fifth Floor - Other Tennants except for a large non-smoking room for staff, (which overlooked Tavistock Sqaure). It was seldom used, as a result of lacking any facities aside from a meagre collection of unwanted’ tatty seating. Next to it, (overlooking Tavistock Place) was a staff canteen. Sixth Floor - Other tennants mostly except for a few offices on the northern side occupied by tribunal Head Office - IT Dept. Seventh Floor - Other tenants in the northern side. The southern (front) side held the private offices of several senior managers (Secretariat, IT & Finance), private office of the Chief Accuntant; an office for two private secretaries and a stationary cupboard. On the rear side was a small kitchen; the private office of the Chief Executive and the private office of the President of the Tribunals for England & Wales. (From 1995 onwards, this became a conference room as the President was based elsewhere. The far end of this side contained an open plan office for Head Office staff - Secretariat, Finance & HR (staff training team) depts. Eighth Floor - other tennants. The Employment Tribunals (Regional & Head Offices) relocated to Vitory House, Kingsway in April 2005. Reply

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Alford Court, N1

Alford Place, N1 Alford Place is a road in the N1 postcode area

Alford Place, N1

Allerton House, N1 Allerton House is a block on Allerton Street.

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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

Angelis Apartments, N1 Angelis Apartments is located on Graham Street.

Angelis Apartments, N1

Aquarelle House, N1 Aquarelle House is a block on City Road.

Aquarelle House, N1

Aurora Buildings, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Aurora Buildings, N1

Bache’s Street, N1 This is a street in the N1 postcode area

Bache’s Street, N1

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

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

Banner Street, EC1Y

Barlow House, N1 Barlow House is a block on Provost Street.

Barlow House, N1

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

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

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

Bentima House, EC1V

Bevenden Street, N1 Bevenden Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Bevenden Street, N1

Bletchley Court, N1 Bletchley Court is a block on Cavendish Street.

Bletchley Court, N1

Bletchley Street, N1 Bletchley Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Bletchley Street, N1

Bollinder Place, EC1V Bollinder Place lies along City Road.

Bollinder Place, EC1V

Book House, N1 Book House is a block on City Road.

Book House, N1

Bookham Street, N1 Bookham Street disappeared after the Second World War.

Bookham Street, N1

Britannia Walk, N1 Britannia Walk is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Britannia Walk, N1

Brunswick Place, EC1V Brunswick Place is a road in the EC1V postcode area

Brunswick Place, EC1V

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

Burnhill House, EC1V

Buttesland Street, N1 Buttesland Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Buttesland Street, N1

Buxton Court, N1 Buxton Court is a block on Windsor Terrace.

Buxton Court, N1

Canaletto Tower, N1 Canaletto Tower can be found on City Road.

Canaletto Tower, N1

Catherwood Court, N1 Catherwood Court is a block on Britannia Walk.

Catherwood Court, N1

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

Central Street, EC1V

Charles Gardner Court, N1 Charles Gardner Court is a building on Haberdasher Street.

Charles Gardner Court, N1

Charles Square, N1 Charles Square is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Charles Square, N1

Chart Street, N1 Chart Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Chart Street, N1

Cherbury Street, N1 Cherbury Street is a road in the N1 postcode area

Cherbury Street, N1

Chronicle Tower, N1 Chronicle Tower is sited on City Road.

Chronicle Tower, N1

City Forum, EC1V City Forum is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

City Forum, EC1V

City Garden Row, N1 City Garden Row is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

City Garden Row, N1

City Lofts, EC2A City Lofts is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

City Lofts, EC2A

City Road, EC1V City Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

City Road, EC1V

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

City Road, 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

Clunbury Street, N1 Clunbury Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Clunbury Street, N1

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

Comice Apartments, EC1V

Coombs Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Coombs Street, N1

Corsham Street, N1 Corsham Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Corsham Street, N1

Cowper Street, EC2A Cowper Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Cowper Street, EC2A

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

Cranwood Street, EC1V

Cullum Welch Court, N1 Cullum Welch Court is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Cullum Welch Court, N1

Custance House, N1 Custance House is a block on Provost Street.

Custance House, N1

Custance Street, N1 Custance Street is a road in the N1 postcode area

Custance Street, N1

Development House, EC2A Development House is a block on Leonard Street.

Development House, EC2A

DialaCab House, N1 DialaCab House is a block on East Road.

DialaCab House, N1

Dingley Road, EC1V Dingley Road is a road in the EC1V postcode area

Dingley Road, EC1V

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

East Central House, EC1V

East Road, N1 East Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

East Road, N1

Ebenezer Street, EC1V A street within the N1 postcode

Ebenezer Street, EC1V

EMA House, EC2A EMA House is a block on Tabernacle Street.

EMA House, EC2A

Evelyn Court, N1 Evelyn Court can be found on Evelyn Walk.

Evelyn Court, N1

Evelyn Walk, N1 Evelyn Walk is a road in the N1 postcode area

Evelyn Walk, N1

Fable Apartments, N1 Fable Apartments is a block on City Road.

Fable Apartments, N1

Falcon Court, N1 Falcon Court is a block on City Garden Row.

Falcon Court, N1

Farringdon Road, EC1V Farringdon Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Farringdon Road, EC1V

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

Featherstone Street, EC1Y

Finn House, N1 Finn House can be found on Bevenden Street.

Finn House, N1

Fullwoods Mews, N1 Fullwoods Mews is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Fullwoods Mews, N1

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

Gambier House, EC1V Gambier House is a block on Mora Street.

Gambier House, EC1V

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

Gard Street, EC1V

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

Gastigny House, EC1V

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

Gee Street, EC1V

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

Graphite Apartments, N1 Graphite Apartments is a block on Provost Street.

Graphite Apartments, N1

Haberdasher Place, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Haberdasher Place, N1

Haberdasher Street, N1 Haberdasher Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Haberdasher Street, N1

Halstead Court, N1 Halstead Court is a block on East Road.

Halstead Court, N1

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

Harella House, EC1V

Haverstock Place, EC1V A street within the N1 postcode

Haverstock Place, EC1V

Haverstock Street, EC1V Haverstock Street is a road in the N1 postcode area

Haverstock Street, EC1V

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

Helmet Row, EC1V

Hoffman Square, N1 Hoffman Square is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Hoffman Square, N1

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

Ironmonger Row, EC1V

Jasper Walk, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Jasper Walk, N1

Kiffen Street, EC2A Kiffen Street links Leonard Street to Clere Street.

Kiffen Street, EC2A

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

King Square, EC1V

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

Lagonier House, EC1V

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

Leo Yard, EC1V

Leonard Street, EC2A Leonard Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Leonard Street, EC2A

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

Lever Street, EC1V

Lexington Apartments, EC1Y Lexington Apartments is a block on City Road.

Lexington Apartments, EC1Y

Linale House, N1 Linale House is a block on Cavendish Street.

Linale House, N1

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

Lizard Street, EC1V

Lowden Court, N1 Lowden Court is located on Prestwood Street.

Lowden Court, N1

Macclesfield Road, EC1V Macclesfield Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Macclesfield Road, EC1V

Maldon Apartments, N1 Maldon Apartments is located on Micawber Street.

Maldon Apartments, N1

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

Mallow Street, EC1Y

Marie Lloyd House, N1 Marie Lloyd House is a block on Cavendish Street.

Marie Lloyd House, N1

Mark Street, EC2A Mark Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Mark Street, EC2A

Marsom House, N1 Marsom House is a block on Murray Grove.

Marsom House, N1

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

Martha’s Buildings, EC1Y

Masons Place, EC1V Masons Place is a road in the EC1V postcode area

Masons Place, EC1V

Mercury House, N1 Mercury House is a block on Chart Street.

Mercury House, N1

Micawber Court, N1 Micawber Court is located on Windsor Terrace.

Micawber Court, N1

Micawber Street, N1 Micawber Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Micawber Street, N1

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

Mitchell Street, EC1V

Monmouth House, EC1Y Monmouth House is a block on City Road.

Monmouth House, EC1Y

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

Mora Street, EC1V

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

Moreland Street, EC1V

Murray Grove, N1 Murray Grove is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Murray Grove, N1

Murton Street, EC1V Murton Street dates from about 1829.

Murton Street, EC1V

Nile Street, N1 Nile Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Nile Street, N1

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

Norman Street, EC1V

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

Old Street, EC1Y

Oliver’s Yard, EC2A Oliver’s Yard is a road in the EC2A postcode area

Oliver’s Yard, EC2A

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

Orchard Building, EC1V

Paper Mill Buildings, EC1V A street within the N1 postcode

Paper Mill Buildings, EC1V

Papyrus House, N1 Papyrus House is a block on Wharf Road.

Papyrus House, N1

Parkinson Court, N1 Parkinson Court is a block on Charles Square.

Parkinson Court, N1

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

Paton Street, EC1V

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

Pickfords Wharf, N1 Pickfords Wharf is a road in the N1 postcode area

Pickfords Wharf, N1

President House, EC1V President House is a block on King Square.

President House, EC1V

Prestwood Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Prestwood Street, N1

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,

Provost Street, N1 Provost Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Provost Street, N1

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

Regent Apartments, N1 Regent Apartments can be found on Wenlock Road.

Regent Apartments, N1

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

Roby House, EC1V

Roman House, EC1V Roman House can be found on City Road.

Roman House, EC1V

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

Seward Street, EC1V

Shepherdess Building, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Shepherdess Building, N1

Shepherdess Place, N1 Shepherdess Place is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Shepherdess Place, N1

Shepherdess Walk, N1 Shepherdess Walk is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Shepherdess Walk, N1

Silbury Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Silbury Street, N1

Silicon Way, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Silicon Way, N1

Singer Street, EC1V Singer Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Singer Street, EC1V

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

Singer Street, EC1V

Spenlow Apartments, N1 Spenlow Apartments is a block on Wenlock Road.

Spenlow Apartments, N1

Sturt Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Sturt Street, N1

Tabernacle Street, EC2A Tabernacle Street was where George Whitefield’s ’Tabernacle’ was built by his supporters after he separated from Wesley in 1741.

Tabernacle Street, EC2A

Taplow Street, N1 Taplow Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Taplow Street, N1

Telephone House, EC2A Telephone House is a block on Paul Street.

Telephone House, EC2A

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

Telfer House, EC1V

Thaxted Court, N1 Thaxted Court is located on Murray Grove.

Thaxted Court, N1

The Bezier Apartments, EC1Y The Bezier Apartments is a block on City Road.

The Bezier Apartments, EC1Y

Theseus Walk, N1 Theseus Walk is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Theseus Walk, N1

Thoresby House, N1 Thoresby House is a block on Thoresby Street.

Thoresby House, N1

Thoresby Street, N1 Thoresby Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Thoresby Street, N1

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

Tilney Court, EC1Y

Touchard House, N1 Touchard House is a block on Charles Square.

Touchard House, N1

Underwood Row, N1 Underwood Row is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Underwood Row, N1

Underwood Street, N1 Underwood Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Underwood Street, N1

Vestry Street, N1 Vestry Street is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Vestry Street, N1

Victoria House, EC1V A street within the EC1V postcode

Victoria House, EC1V

Vince Court, N1 Vince Court is a block on Charles Square.

Vince Court, N1

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

Vince Street, EC1V

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

Waterloo Street, EC1V

Waterside, N1 Waterside is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Waterside, N1

Wellesley Terrace, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Wellesley Terrace, N1

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

Wenlake House, EC1V

Wenlock Court, N1 Wenlock Court can be found on Evelyn Walk.

Wenlock Court, N1

Wenlock Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Wenlock Mews, N1

Wenlock Street, N1 Wenlock Street is a road in the N1 postcode area

Wenlock Street, N1

Westland Place, N1 Westland Place is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Westland Place, N1

Wharf Road, N1 Wharf Road is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Wharf Road, N1

Wilkins Apartments, N1 Wilkins Apartments is a building on Prestwood Street.

Wilkins Apartments, N1

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

Willen House, EC1V

Windsor Terrace, N1 Windsor Terrace is one of the streets of London in the N1 postal area.

Windsor Terrace, N1

Winkworth Court, N1 Winkworth Court is a block on Brunswick Place.

Winkworth Court, N1

Works House, N1 Works House is a block on Brunswick Place.

Works House, N1

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

Young’s Buildings, EC1Y

Zeus House, N1 Zeus House is a block on Provost Street.

Zeus House, N1

NEARBY PUBS

Bavarian Beerhouse

Block Brewery Limited

Charlie Wright’s International

George & Vulture

Love’s Company, Unit 1

McQueen

The Duke of Wellington

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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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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:	Colville Estate, Shoreditch (2019) The Colville Estate is situated between the Regents Canal to the North and Shoreditch Park to the South. It was designed in the early 1950s by Shoreditch Metropolitan Borough Council and since 2009 has undergone ’regeneration’. Credit: Municipal Dreams TUM image id: 1636043071 Licence:	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:	Shepherd’s Place archway (built c. 1810), and Tenter Street (c. 1820) in 1909 TUM image id: 1492897455 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:	Crondall Street TUM image id: 1575830074 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Great Arthur House, at the centre of the Golden Lane Estate, was the tallest residential building in Britain at the time of its construction. Credit: Steve F/Wiki commons TUM image id: 1582223961 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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. TUM image id: 1671738816 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Pardon Street Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1605906093 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Pitfield Street (1896) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1669929580 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Kennedy’s - who sold sausages and pies around Camberwell and Peckham - delivering/receiving at Smithfield Market TUM image id: 1620388238 Licence:	“Jewin Crescent, London EC1” This 1940 drawing is by Roland Vivian Pitchforth - one of his works for the War Artists Advisory Committee and looks west along Jewin Crescent. Credit: Roland Vivian Pitchforth/Imperial War Museum TUM image id: 1671730747 Licence:	Coach & Horses stood at 71 Bartholomew Close, Smithfield from 1799 until the Second World War. Credit: Guildhall Library TUM image id: 1671490114 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Looking down Bookham Street from the New North Road (1956) Bookham Street disappeared from the map just after the photo was taken TUM image id: 1575825741 Licence:

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St Lukes Hospital for Lunatics, London
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The gravestone of English poet William Blake in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
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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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Royal Oak, Waterloo Street in the early 1960s. Waterloo Street once ran from Lever Street to Radnor Street. The original street dates from around 1829 and like other streets of similar name, commemorates Wellington’s 1815 victory. The whole area was redeveloped for the Pleydell Estate in 1965.
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