Hat and Feathers

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

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

The Hat and Feathers 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.

Described as "gay without being crude", the facade is curved to reflect the building’s corner location.

The Hat and Feathers closed in 1990, reopened in 2006 before shutting down again in 2011.

It was announced in 2019 that the area around the pub would be rebuilt as a hotel with over 150 rooms. The Hat and Feathers building was to be incorporated into the hotel space, reviving the Grade II-listed pub.

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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
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
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
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

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Golborne Gardens, W10 Added: 14 Jan 2022 03:06 GMT	Goldbourne Gardens W 10 I lived in Goldbourne Gardens in the 50,s very happy big bomb site Reply
Chris Nash Shortlands Close, DA17 Added: 10 Jan 2022 22:54 GMT	Shortlands Close, DA17 Shortlands Close and the flats along it were constructed in the mid-1990s. Prior to this, the area was occupied by semi-detached houses with large gardens, which dated from the post-war period and were built on the site of Railway Farm. The farm and its buildings spanned the length of Abbey Road, on the south side of the North Kent Line railway tracks. Reply
Roy Batham Covent Garden Added: 7 Jan 2022 07:17 GMT	Smithy in Longacre John Burris 1802-1848 Listed 1841 census as Burroughs was a blacksmith, address just given as Longacre. Source: Batham/Wiseman - Family Tree Reply
Roy Batham Notting Dale Added: 7 Jan 2022 05:50 GMT	Batham Family (1851 - 1921) I start with William Batham 1786-1852 born in St.Martins Middlesex. From various sources I have found snippets of information concerning his early life. A soldier in 1814 he married Mary Champelovier of Huguenot descent By 1819 they were in Kensington where they raised 10 children. Apart from soldier his other occupations include whitesmith, bell hanger and pig breeder. I find my first record in the 1851 English sensus. No street address is given, just ’The Potteries’. He died 1853. Only one child at home then George Batham 1839-1923, my great grandfather. By 1861 he is living in Thomas St. Kensington with his mother. A bricklayer by trade 1871, married and still in Thomas St. 1881 finds him in 5,Martin St. Kensington. 1891 10,Manchester St. 1911, 44 Hunt St Hammersmith. Lastly 1921 Census 7, Mersey St. which has since been demolished. Source: Batham/Wiseman - Family Tree Reply
sam Burdett Street, SE1 Added: 31 Dec 2021 00:54 GMT	Burdett Street, SE1 I was on 2nd July 1952, in Burdett chambers (which is also known as Burdett buildings)on Burdett street Reply
John Neill Sandringham Road, E10 Added: 25 Nov 2021 11:30 GMT	Sandringham Road, E10 (1937 - 1966) I lived at No. 61 with my parents during these years. I went to Canterbury Road school (now Barclay Primary) and sang as a boy soprano (treble) in the church choir at St Andrewâ€™s church, on the corner of Forest Glade. Opposite us lived the Burgess family. Their son Russell also sang in my choir as a tenor. He later became a well-known musician and the choirmaster at Wandsworth Boysâ€™ School. Just at the end of WW2 a German rocket (V2) landed in the grounds of Whipps Cross Hospital, damaging many of the houses in Sandringham Road, including ours. Reply
Tim Stevenson The Bohemia Added: 16 Nov 2021 18:03 GMT	Pub still open The Bohemia survived the 2020/21 lockdowns and is still a thriving local social resource. 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

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Albion Place, EC1M

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Amias Place, EC1Y

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

Anchor Yard, EC1Y

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Baltic Street East, EC1Y

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Baltic Street West, EC1Y

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Bastwick Street, EC1V

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Bath Street, EC1V

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Beech Street, EC1Y

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Benjamin Street, EC1M

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

Berkeley Court, EC1M

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

Berry Place, EC1V

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Berry Street, EC1M

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Brewery Square, EC1V

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

Brewhouse Yard, EC1V

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Bridgewater Square, EC2Y

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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 one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Bryer Court, EC2Y

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

Bunhill Fields, EC1Y

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

Carthusian Street, EC1A

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

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

Cherry Tree Walk, EC1Y

Chiswell Street, SE5 Chiswell Street is a location in London.

Chiswell Street, SE5

Clerkenwell Close, EC1R Clerkenwell Close is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Clerkenwell Close, EC1R

Clerkenwell Green, EC1M Clerkenwell Green is the street named after the historical green.

Clerkenwell Green, EC1M

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

Clerkenwell Road, EC1M

Cloth Court, EC1M Cloth Court is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Cloth Court, EC1M

Cloth Street, EC1M Cloth Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Cloth Street, EC1M

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

Compton Street, EC1V

Cornwell House, EC1M Residential block

Cornwell House, EC1M

Corporation Row, EC1R Corporation Row is a road in the EC1R postcode area

Corporation Row, EC1R

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

Cowcross Street, 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

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 Residential block

Davina House, EC1V

Defoe House, EC2Y Residential block

Defoe House, EC2Y

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

East Passage, EC1A East Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

East Passage, EC1A

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

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

Farringdon Road, EC1V

Farringdon Road, EC4A Farringdon Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Farringdon Road, EC4A

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

Faulkners Alley, EC1M

Finsbury Estate, EC1R Finsbury Estate is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Finsbury Estate, EC1R

Florin Court, EC1M Florin Court is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Florin Court, EC1M

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

Fortune Street, 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

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

Gloucester Way, EC1R Gloucester Way is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Gloucester Way, EC1R

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

Golden Lane, EC1Y

Goswell Road, EC1A Goswell Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Goswell Road, EC1A

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

Goswell Road, EC1Y

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

Great Sutton Street, EC1M

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

Greenhills Rents, EC1A

Grimthorpe House, EC1V Residential block

Grimthorpe House, EC1V

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

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

Ironmonger Row, EC1V

Jerusalem Passage, EC1V Jerusalem Passage was named for an old public house, St. John of Jerusalem, which stood at the northeast corner until 1760.

Jerusalem Passage, EC1V

Joseph Close, EC1R Joseph Close is a road in the N4 postcode area

Joseph Close, EC1R

Joseph Trotter Close, EC1R Joseph Trotter Close is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Joseph Trotter Close, EC1R

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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

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

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

Long Lane, EC1A

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

Long Lane, EC1M

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

Malta Street, EC1V

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

Memel Street, EC1Y

Meredith Street, EC1R Meredith Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Meredith Street, EC1R

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

Middle Street, EC1A

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 Street, EC1R Myddelton Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Myddelton Street, EC1R

Newington Close, EC1R This is a street in the EC1R postcode area

Newington Close, 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 Street, EC1M Northburgh Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Northburgh Street, EC1M

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

Northburgh Street, EC1M

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

Pardon Street, 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

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

Pear Tree 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

Pensioners Court The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block

Pensioners Court The Charterhouse, EC1M

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

Percival Street, EC1V

Peterâ€™s Lane, EC1M Peterâ€™s Lane is named after the church which once stood close to the Cross Keys tavern.

Peterâ€™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

Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block

Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M

Quaker Court, EC1Y Quaker Court is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.

Quaker Court, EC1Y

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

Radnor Street, EC1V

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

Roscoe Street, EC1Y

Saffron Hill, EC1N Saffron Hillâ€™s name derives the time that it was part of an estate on which saffron grew.

Saffron Hill, EC1N

Saint John Street, EC1M This is a street in the EC1M postcode area

Saint John Street, EC1M

Sans Walk, EC1R Sans Walk was named after Edward Sans in 1893, who was then the oldest member of the local parish vestry.

Sans Walk, EC1R

Scotswood Street, EC1R Scotswood Street is a road in the EC1R postcode area

Scotswood Street, EC1R

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

Sebastian Street, EC1V

Sekforde Court, EC1R Sekforde Court is one of the streets of London in the EC1V postal area.

Sekforde Court, EC1R

Sekforde Street, EC1R Sekforde Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Sekforde Street, EC1R

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

Seward Street, EC1V

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

Silk Street, EC2Y

Skinner Street, EC1R Skinner Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Skinner Street, EC1R

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

Smokehouse Yard, EC1M

St Jamess Walk, EC1R St Jamess Walk is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

St Jamess Walk, EC1R

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

St John Street, EC1V

St John Street, EC1V The northern section of St John Street was confusingly, before the 20th century, named Saint John Street Road.

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 Johnâ€™s Gate, EC1M St Johnâ€™s Gate is a road in the EC1M postcode area

St Johnâ€™s Gate, EC1M

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

The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block

The Charterhouse, EC1M

The Horseshoe Path, EC1R The Horseshoe Path runs around the back of the Horseshoe pub.

The Horseshoe Path, EC1R

The Sutton Estate, EC1Y The Sutton Estate is a road in the N1 postcode area

The Sutton Estate, EC1Y

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

Tilney Court, EC1Y

Timber Street, EC1Y Timber Street was formerly called Norway Street.

Timber Street, EC1Y

Tompion House, EC1V Residential block

Tompion House, EC1V

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

Tompion Street, EC1V

Turnmill Street, EC1 Turnmill Street appears in the works of Shakespeare.

Turnmill Street, EC1

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

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

Whitecross Street, EC1Y

Woodbridge Street, EC1R Woodbridge Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Woodbridge Street, EC1R

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

NEARBY PUBS

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

BarSmith

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

Be At One

Best Mangal Bar & Restaurant This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Best Mangal Bar & Restaurant

Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings

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

Charterhouse Bar

Circle Bar, Level 0 This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Circle Bar, Level 0

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

City Pride

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

Clerkenwell & Social

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

Crown Tavern

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

Lazybones

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

Nomad Club

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

Piano Smithfield

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

Sabor Iberico

Searcys Bars @ GSM & D This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Searcys Bars @ GSM & D

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

Sir John Oldcastle

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

Sutton Arms

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

Sutton Arms

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

The Artisan

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

The Castle

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

The Fence

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

The Fox and Anchor

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

The Green

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

The Horseshoe

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

The Old Ivy House

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

The One Tun

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

The Peasant

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

The Shakespeare

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

The Slaughtered Lamb

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

The Trader

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

The Well

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

Three Kings

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

White Bear

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

Smithfield Market TUM image id: 1620388545 Licence:	"Cheapside and Bow Church" engraved by W. Albutt, 1837 steel engraved print after a picture by T.H. Shepherd, first published in The History of London: Illustrated by Views in London and Westminster. Credit: W. Albutt TUM image id: 1507465321 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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	Islington Horse and Cattle market at the turn of the twentieth century. TUM image id: 1556878421 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The Grand Theatre, Islington High Street (1903) TUM image id: 1557151038 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Angel, Islington (c.1890) TUM image id: 1557162442 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Saint John’s Gate, Clerkenwell, the main gateway to the Priory of Saint John of Jerusalem. The church was founded in the 12th century by Jordan de Briset, a Norman knight. Prior Docwra completed the gatehouse shown in this photograph in 1504. The gateway served as the main entry to the Priory, which was the center of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitallers). Credit: Henry Dixon (1880) TUM image id: 1557226611 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Illustration of Fleet Market Credit: William Henry Prior TUM image id: 1530111646 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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:	Farringdon Street, EC4M TUM image id: 1530111130 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	Kirby Street sign TUM image id: 1526255978 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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Smithfield Market
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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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Clerkenwell Green (1898) The water fountain shown here became public toilets.
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View of Cloth Fair in 1884 showing the side entrance to St Bartholomew’s Priory, Smithfield.
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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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Pardon Street
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Sans Walk, Clerkenwell
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Until combined in the twentieth century, St John Street was split between St John Street (south) and St John Street Road (north)
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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 at Smithfield Market
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