Berkeley Court, EC1M

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

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Berkley Court, Clerkenwell as photographed by HW Fincham on 7 July 1899.
Credit: HW Fincham

Berkeley Court Court a blind alley blocked by a wall of backyards in Albion Place.

A firm of well-known watch makers, which continued for about one hundred years at the same address, was started by Robert Storer in 1743 at 11 Berkeley Court.

It contained 15 houses of three storeys, let out in tenements.

Berkeley Court disappeared when the site was cleared and redeveloped after the Second World War.

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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
Scott Hatton Blackmoor Street, WC2B Added: 11 Sep 2020 19:47 GMT	Millions Of Rats In Busy London The Daily Mail on 14 April 1903 reported "MILLIONS OF RATS IN BUSY LONDON" A rat plague, unprecedented in the annals of London, has broken out on the north side of the Strand. The streets principally infested are Catherine street, Drury lane, Blackmore street, Clare Market and Russell street. Something akin to a reign of terror prevails among the inhabitants after nightfall. Women refuse to pass along Blackmore street and the lower parts of Stanhope street after dusk, for droves of rats perambulate the roadways and pavements, and may be seen running along the window ledges of the empty houses awaiting demolition by the County Council in the Strand to Holborn improvement scheme. The rats, indeed, have appeared in almost-incredible numbers. "There are millions of them," said one shopkeeper, and his statement was supported by other residents. The unwelcome visitors have been evicted from their old haunts by the County Council housebreakers, and are now busily in search of new homes. The Gaiety Restaurant has been the greatest sufferer. Rats have invaded the premises in such force that the managers have had to close the large dining room on the first floor and the grill rooms on the ground floor and in the basement. Those three spacious halls which have witnessed many as semblages of theatre-goers are now qui:e deserted. Behind the wainscot of the bandstand in the grillroom is a large mound of linen shreds. This represents 1728 serviettes carried theee by the rats. In the bar the removal of a panel disclosed the astonishing fact that the rats have dragged for a distance of seven or eight yards some thirty or forty beer and wine bottles and stacked them in such a fashion as to make comfortable sleeping places. Mr Williams. the manager of the restaurant, estimates that the rats have destroyed L200 worth of linen. Formerly the Gaiety Restaurant dined 2000 persons daily; no business whatever is now done in this direction. 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
Carol Gifford Street, N1 Added: 7 May 2021 18:44 GMT	Nan My nan lily,her sister Elizabeth and their parents Elizabeth and William lived here in1911 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
All bar one Added: 3 Jun 2021 15:50 GMT	All Bar One The capitalisation is wrong Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Jude Allen Orange Street, WC2H Added: 29 Jul 2021 07:53 GMT	Bra top I jave a jewelled item of clothong worn by a revie girl. It is red with diamante straps. Inside it jas a label Bermans Revue 16 Orange Street but I cannot find any info online about the revue only that 16 Orange Street used to be a theatre. Does any one know about the revue. I would be intesrested to imagine the wearer of the article and her London life. Reply
Kathleen Dunloe Avenue, N17 Added: 28 Jul 2021 09:12 GMT	Dunloe Avenue, N17 I was born in 1951,my grandparents lived at 5 Dunloe Avenue.I had photos of the coronation decorations in the area for 1953.The houses were rented out by Rowleys,their ’workers yard’ was at the top of Dunloe Avenue.The house was fairly big 3 bedroom with bath and toilet upstairs,and kitchenette downstairs -a fairly big garden.My Grandmother died 1980 and the house was taken back to be rented again Reply
Kathleen Spigurnell Road, N17 Added: 28 Jul 2021 08:59 GMT	Spigurnell Road, N17 I was born and lived in Spigurnell Road no 32 from 1951.My father George lived in Spigurnell Road from 1930’s.When he died in’76 we moved to number 3 until I got married in 1982 and moved to Edmonton.Spigurnell Road was a great place to live.Number 32 was 2 up 2 down toilet out the back council house in those days Reply
Lewis Addington Added: 27 Jul 2021 20:48 GMT	Ploy Allotment 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
old lady Cheltenham Road, SE15 Added: 19 Jul 2021 11:58 GMT	mis information Cheltenham road was originally Hall road not Hill rd original street name printed on house still standing Reply
Patricia Bridges Lancefield Coachworks Added: 19 Jul 2021 10:57 GMT	Lancefield Coachworks My grandfather Tom Murray worked here Reply
Former Philbeach Gardens Resident Philbeach Gardens, SW5 Added: 14 Jul 2021 00:44 GMT	Philbeach Gardens Resident (Al Stewart) Al Stewart, who had huts in the 70s with the sings ’Year of the Cat’ and ’On The Borders’, lived in Philbeach Gdns for a while and referenced Earl’s Court in a couple of his songs. I lived in Philbeach Gardens from a child until my late teens. For a few years, on one evening in the midst of Summer, you could hear Al Stewart songs ringing out across Philbeach Gardens, particularly from his album ’Time Passages". I don’t think Al was living there at the time but perhaps he came back to see some pals. Or perhaps the broadcasters were just his fans,like me. Either way, it was a wonderful treat to hear! Reply

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

Agdon Street, EC1V

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

Albemarle Way, EC1M

Albion Courtyard, EC1A Albion Courtyard is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Albion Courtyard, EC1A

Albion Place, EC1M Albion Place was formerly George Court.

Albion Place, EC1M

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

Albion Way, EC1A

Aldersgate Street, EC2Y Aldersgate Street is located on the west side of the Barbican Estate.

Aldersgate Street, EC2Y

Amias Place, EC1Y Amias Place was formerly George Yard.

Amias Place, EC1Y

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

Aylesbury Street, EC1V

Back Hill, EC1N Back Hill is simply named as it lies off (or to the ’back’) of a main road.

Back Hill, EC1N

Baker’s Yard, EC1R Baker’s Yard leads off Bakers Row.

Baker’s Yard, EC1R

Baker’s Row, EC1R Bakers Row was named after Richard Baker, a local 18th century carpenter.

Baker’s Row, EC1R

Baldwins Gardens, EC1N Baldwin Gardens runs between Gray’s Inn Road and Leather Lane.

Baldwins Gardens, EC1N

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

Baltic Street East, EC1Y

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

Baltic Street West, EC1Y

Bartholomew Close, EC1A Bartholomew Close is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Bartholomew Close, EC1A

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

Bartholomew Passage, EC1A

Bartholomew Place, EC1A Bartholomew Place is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

Bartholomew Place, EC1A

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

Bastwick Street, EC1V

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

Benjamin Street, EC1M

Berry Street, EC1M Berry Street is a road in the EC1M postcode area

Berry Street, EC1M

Bleeding Heart Yard, EC1N Bleeding Heart Yard is a courtyard off of Greville Street.

Bleeding Heart Yard, EC1N

Bowling Green Lane, EC1R Bowling Green Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Bowling Green Lane, EC1R

Brewery Square, EC1V Brewery Square is a road in the EC1V postcode area

Brewery Square, EC1V

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

Brewhouse Yard, EC1V

Bridgewater Square, EC2Y Bridgewater Square is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Bridgewater Square, EC2Y

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

Briset Street, EC1M

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

Britton Street, EC1M

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

Broad Yard, EC1M

Brooke Street, EC1N Brooke Street runs north off of Holborn.

Brooke Street, EC1N

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

Bryer Court, EC2Y

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

Carthusian Street, EC1A

Catherine Griffiths Court, EC1R Catherine Griffiths Court is a road in the EC1R postcode area

Catherine Griffiths Court, EC1R

Central Markets, EC1A Central Markets is the address of traders within Smithfield Market.

Central Markets, EC1A

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

Charterhouse Street, EC1A Charterhouse Street is a street on the northern boundary of the City of London.

Charterhouse Street, EC1A

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

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

Clerkenwell Road, EC1R

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

Cloth Court, EC1M

Cloth Fair, EC1A Cloth Fair stands where the original Bartholomew Fair was held in medieval times.

Cloth Fair, EC1A

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

Cloth Street, EC1M

Coldbath Square, EC1R Coldbath Square was named after a well of cold water that stood here alone in surrounding fields.

Coldbath Square, EC1R

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

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

Cowcross Street, EC1M

Crawford Passage, EC1R Crawford Passage is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Crawford Passage, EC1R

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

Crescent Row, EC1Y

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

Dallington Street, EC1V

Defoe House, EC2Y Residential block

Defoe House, EC2Y

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

Domingo Street, EC1Y

Dyer’s Buildings, EC1N This is a street in the EC1N postcode area

Dyer’s Buildings, EC1N

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

Eagle Court, EC1M

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

East Central Markets, EC1A

East Market, EC2Y East Market is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

East Market, EC2Y

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

East Passage, EC1A

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

East Poultry Avenue, EC1A

Eldons Passage, EC1N A street within the EC1N postcode

Eldons Passage, EC1N

Ely Court, EC1N Ely Court is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area.

Ely Court, EC1N

Ely Place, EC1N Ely Place is a gated road at the southern tip of the London Borough of Camden.

Ely Place, EC1N

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

Eyre Street Hill, EC1R

Farringdon Lane, EC1R Farringdon Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Farringdon Lane, EC1R

Farringdon Road, EC1R Farringdon Road is a road in Clerkenwell and Finsbury.

Farringdon Road, EC1R

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

Ferroners House, EC2Y Ferroners House

Ferroners House, EC2Y

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

Florin Court, EC1M

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

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

Grand Avenue, EC1A Grand Avenue runs through the centre of Smithfield Market.

Grand Avenue, EC1A

Gravel Street, EC1N Gravel Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area.

Gravel Street, EC1N

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

Greville Street, EC1N Greville Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area.

Greville Street, EC1N

Hatton Garden, EC1N Hatton Garden is a street and area noted as London’s jewellery quarter and centre of the UK diamond trade.

Hatton Garden, EC1N

Hatton Place, EC1N Hatton Place is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area.

Hatton Place, EC1N

Hatton Square, EC1N Hatton Square is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area.

Hatton Square, EC1N

Hatton Wall, EC1N Hatton Wall is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area.

Hatton Wall, EC1N

Haven Road, RM13 Haven Road is a location in London.

Haven Road, RM13

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

Herbal Hill, EC1N This is a street in the EC1R postcode area

Herbal Hill, EC1N

Holborn Circus, EC1N Holborn Circus is a junction of five highways in the City of London, on the boundary between Holborn, Hatton Garden and Smithfield.

Holborn Circus, EC1N

Holborn, EC1N Holborn commemorates the River Fleet, also known as the Holbourne stream.

Holborn, EC1N

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

Honduras Street, EC1Y

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

Hosier Lane, EC1A

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

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

Kinghorn Street, EC1A

Kirby Street, EC1N Kirby Street was named for Christopher Hatton’s Kirby House in Northamptonshire.

Kirby Street, EC1N

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

Lauderdale Tower, EC2Y

Leather Lane, EC1N Leather Lane is a street one block west of Hatton Garden, in the Holborn area of London.

Leather Lane, EC1N

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

Lindsey Street, EC1A

Little Britain, EC1M Little Britain is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.

Little Britain, EC1M

London Central Markets, EC4A London Central Markets is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.

London Central Markets, EC4A

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

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

Memel Street, EC1Y

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

Middle Street, EC1A

Middlesex Passage, EC1A Middlesex Passage is a location in London.

Middlesex Passage, EC1A

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

Mitchell Street, EC1V

New House, EC1N Residential block

New House, EC1N

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

Newbury Street, EC1A

Northampton Road, EC1R Northampton Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Northampton Road, EC1R

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

Pear Tree Court, EC1R Pear Tree Court is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Pear Tree Court, EC1R

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

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

Peter’s Lane, EC1M

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

Pickax Street, EC2Y

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

Pine Street, EC1R

Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block

Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M

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

Ray Street, EC1R

Saffron Hill, EC1N Saffron Hill’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

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

Sekforde Street, EC1R

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

Smithfield Street, EC1A

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

Smokehouse Yard, EC1M

St Cross Street, EC1N St Cross Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area.

St Cross Street, EC1N

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

St John’s Square, EC1M

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

St John’s Square, EC1M

St Johns House, EC1M Residential block

St Johns House, EC1M

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

St Johns Lane, EC1M

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

St Johns Path, EC1M

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

St Johns Place, EC1M

St John’s Gate, EC1M St John’s Gate is a road in the EC1M postcode area

St John’s Gate, EC1M

Summers Street, EC1N Summers Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Summers Street, EC1N

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

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

Timber Street, EC1Y

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

Topham Street, EC1R

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

Turnmill Street, EC1

Vestry House, EC1A Residential block

Vestry House, EC1A

Vine Hill, EC1R Vine Hill now displays no evidence on the vines that once flourished in the grounds on which it stands.

Vine Hill, EC1R

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

Warner Street, EC1R

Warner Yard, EC1R Warner Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.

Warner Yard, EC1R

Waterhouse Square, EC1N Waterhouse Square is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area.

Waterhouse Square, EC1N

West Smithfield, EC1A West Smithfield is the oldest street of the Smithfield area.

West Smithfield, EC1A

White Bear Yard, EC1R White Bear Yard is location of London.

White Bear Yard, EC1R

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

Woodbridge Street, EC1R

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

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

Bishops Finger

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

Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings

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

Brookes Brother Wine Bar

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

Charterhouse Bar

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

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

Clerkenwell house

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

Club Gascon

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

Craft Beer Company

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

Crown Tavern

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

Eagle

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

Enoteca Rabezzana

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

Grand Union Farringdon

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

Hand & Shears

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

Hat & Tun

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

Inn of Court

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

Karaoke Box

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

Lazybones

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

Ninth Ward London

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

Nomad Club

Old Dick Whittington The Dick Whittington Inn at 24 Cloth Fair was a sixteenth century building and once part of a row of medieval buildings lining the street.

Old Dick Whittington

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

Old Red Cow

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

Oriole

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

Piano Smithfield

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

Sir Chrisptopher Hatton

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

Sir John Oldcastle

St Peters Italian Social Club This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

St Peters Italian Social Club

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

The Argyle

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

The Artisan

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

The Betsey Trotwood

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

The Bleeding Heart Tavern

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

The Bowler

The Butcher’s Hook and Cleaver This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

The Butcher’s Hook and Cleaver

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

The Grill on the Market

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

The Horseshoe

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

The One Tun

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

The Rising Sun

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 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

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

Vino & Vino

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

White Bear

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

Ye Olde Mitre

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 old wooden Temple Bar Credit: Walter Thornbury TUM image id: 1523115955 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
Mount Pleasant Sorting Office on the north-east corner of Farringdon Road (1910). The present building is on the site of the Coldbath Fields Prison where the punishments were particularly cruel in that they were not only long and physically hard but also pointless. The pub at the back used to open at 9am to serve postal workers. TUM image id: 1620296515 Licence:	Amen Court, EC4M TUM image id: 1493474208 Licence: CC BY 2.0	At the southern end of Carmelite Street in the City of London stood the Victorian-era Whitefriars Fire Station. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1623066010 Licence:	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:
Coldbath Square in Clerkenwell was named after a cold water well that stood originally in fields. Cold Bath was fed by a spring which was discovered by a Mr Baynes in 1697. The discoverer declared the water had great power in nervous diseases, and "equalled those of St Magnus and St Winnifred". The bathing hours were from 5am to 1pm, the charge two shillings. The old bathhouse was a building with three gables, and had a large garden with four turret summer houses. In 1811 the trustees of the London Fever Hospital bought the property for £3830, but, being driven away by the frightened inhabitants, the ground was sold for building, the bath remaining as late as 1865. TUM image id: 1620296987 Licence:	Farringdon Road and the Metropolitan Railway, 1868. Looking north from Turnmill Street TUM image id: 1498559756 Licence: CC BY 2.0	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