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Pub/bar · Clerkenwell · EC1M ·
FEBRUARY
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2019

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Jeff Owen   
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.

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Scott Hatton   
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.

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Steven Shepherd   
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.

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MCNALLY    
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

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Tom   
Added: 21 May 2021 23:07 GMT   

Blackfriars
What is, or was, Bodies Bridge?

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Comment
   
Added: 27 Jul 2021 14:31 GMT   

correction
Chaucer did not write Pilgrims Progress. His stories were called the Canterbury Tales

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Lena    
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.

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Added: 3 Jun 2021 15:50 GMT   

All Bar One
The capitalisation is wrong

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LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Lived here
John Neill   
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 Andrew’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 Boys’ 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.

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Tim Stevenson   
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.

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STEPHEN JACKSON   
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.

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STEPHEN ARTHUR JACKSON   
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

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Sir Walter Besant   
Added: 11 Nov 2021 18:47 GMT   

Sir Walter adds....
All the ground facing Wirtemberg Street at Chip and Cross Streets is being levelled for building and the old houses are disappearing fast. The small streets leading through into little Manor Street are very clean and tenanted by poor though respectable people, but little Manor Street is dirty, small, and narrow. Manor Street to Larkhall Rise is a wide fairly clean thoroughfare of mixed shops and houses which improves towards the north. The same may be said of Wirtemberg Street, which commences poorly, but from the Board School north is far better than at the Clapham end.

Source: London: South of the Thames - Chapter XX by Sir Walter Besant (1912)

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Comment
   
Added: 6 Nov 2021 15:03 GMT   

Old Nichol Street, E2
Information about my grandfather’s tobacconist shop

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tom   
Added: 3 Nov 2021 05:16 GMT   

I met
someone here 6 years ago

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Fion Anderson   
Added: 2 Nov 2021 12:55 GMT   

Elstree not Borehamwood
Home of the UK film industry

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Half Moon Court, EC1A
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Old Dick Whittington
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Smithfield
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St Andrew
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St Etheldreda’s Church St Etheldreda’s Church is in Ely Place, off Charterhouse Street in Holborn, London.
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St John’s Gate, Clerkenwell St John’s Gate is one of the few tangible remains from Clerkenwell’s monastic past; it was built in 1504 by Prior Thomas Docwra as the south entrance to the inner precinct of Clerkenwell Priory, the priory of the Knights of Saint John - the Knights Hospitallers.
St John’s Gate, Clerkenwell
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St Peter’s Italian Church
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NEARBY STREETS
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
Angel Street, EC1A Angel Street runs between King Edward Street in the west and St. Martin’s Le Grand in the east.
Angel Street, EC1A
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
Barnard’s Inn, EC4A Barnard’s Inn lies near Holborn Circus.
Barnard’s Inn, EC4A
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
Bartlett’s Buildings, EC4A Bartlett’s Buildings was the name of a street situated off of Holborn Circus
Bartlett’s Buildings, EC4A
Bear Alley, EC4A Bear Alley is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.
Bear Alley, EC4A
Beech Street, EC1Y Beech Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Beech Street, EC1Y
Benjamin Street, EC1M Benjamin Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.
Benjamin Street, EC1M
Berkeley Court, EC1M Berkeley Court ran south out of Berkley Street (now Briset Street).
Berkeley Court, 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
Brewery Square, EC1V Brewery Square is a road in the EC1V postcode area
Brewery Square, 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
Bryer Court, EC2Y Bryer Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.
Bryer Court, EC2Y
Bull and Mouth Street, EC2V Bull and Mouth Street ran between King Edward Street and St Martin’s Le Grand.
Bull and Mouth Street, EC2V
Carthusian Street, EC1A Carthusian Street is a road in the EC1A postcode area
Carthusian Street, EC1A
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 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
Cock Lane, EC1A Cock Lane leads from Giltspur Street in the east to Snow Hill in the west.
Cock Lane, EC1A
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
Cripplegate Street, EC1Y Cripplegate Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.
Cripplegate Street, EC1Y
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
Fann Street, EC1Y Fann Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1Y postal area.
Fann Street, EC1Y
Farringdon Lane, EC1R Farringdon Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.
Farringdon Lane, EC1R
Farringdon Road, EC1A Farringdon Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Farringdon Road, EC1A
Farringdon Road, EC4A Farringdon Road is one of the streets of London in the EC1M postal area.
Farringdon Road, EC4A
Farringdon Street, EC1A The building of Farringdon Street is considered one of the greatest urban engineering achievements of the 19th century.
Farringdon Street, EC1A
Farringdon Street, EC4A Farringdon Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Farringdon Street, 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
Furnival Street, EC4A Furnival Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.
Furnival Street, EC4A
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
Giltspur Street, EC1A Giltspur Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Giltspur Street, EC1A
Glasshouse Yard, EC2Y Glasshouse Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Glasshouse Yard, EC2Y
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
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 Viaduct, EC1A Holborn Viaduct is a road bridge in London and the name of the street which crosses it.
Holborn Viaduct, EC1A
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
King Edward Street, EC1A King Edward Street runs from Newgate Street in the south to Little Britain in the north.
King Edward Street, EC1A
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, EC1A Little Britain is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Little Britain, 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
Makers Yard, E3 Makers Yard is a location in London.
Makers Yard, E3
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
New Fetter Lane, EC1N New Fetter Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC1N postal area.
New Fetter Lane, EC1N
New Fetter Lane, EC4A New Fetter Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.
New Fetter Lane, EC4A
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
Noble Street, EC2V Noble Street is one of the streets of London in the EC2V postal area.
Noble Street, EC2V
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
Norwich Street, EC4A Norwich Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.
Norwich Street, EC4A
Oat Lane, EC2V Oat Lane has been marked on London maps since 1600 and before.
Oat Lane, EC2V
Old Bailey, EC1A Old Bailey is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Old Bailey, EC1A
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
Plough Place, EC4A Plough Place is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.
Plough Place, EC4A
Ploughs Place, EC4A Ploughs Place is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.
Ploughs Place, EC4A
Plumtree Court, EC4A Plumtree Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4A postal area.
Plumtree Court, EC4A
Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M Residential block
Preachers Court The Charterhouse, EC1M
Queen Isabella Way, EC1A Queen Isabella Way is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Queen Isabella Way, EC1A
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
Silver Street, EC2V Silver Street was the location of a house in which William Shakespeare lived during his time in London.
Silver Street, EC2V
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
Snow Hill, EC1A Snow Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC1A postal area.
Snow Hill, EC1A
St Andrew Street, EC4A St Andrew Street is the northern extension of Shoe Lane.
St Andrew Street, EC4A
St Ann’s Lane, EC2V St Ann’s Lane was the name for the west end of Gresham Street until the 1860s.
St Ann’s Lane, EC2V
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’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
Turnmill Street, EC1 Turnmill Street appears in the works of Shakespeare.
Turnmill Street, EC1
Vestry House, EC1A Residential block
Vestry House, EC1A
Warner Street, EC1R Warner Street is one of the streets of London in the EC1R postal area.
Warner Street, 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

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
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
Dado 54 This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
Dado 54
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
Hat and Feathers At the corner of Clerkenwell Road and Goswell Road sits the Hat and Feathers pub.
Hat and Feathers
Inn of Court This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
Inn of Court
Jamies This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
Jamies
Kanaloa This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
Kanaloa
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
Le Paris Grill This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
Le Paris Grill
Ninth Ward London This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
Ninth Ward London
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 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 Draft House This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
The Draft House
The Fable This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
The Fable
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 Lord Raglan This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
The Lord Raglan
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 White Swan This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
The White Swan
Three Kings This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
Three Kings
Viaduct Tavern This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.
Viaduct Tavern
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
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Amen Court, EC4M
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Farringdon Street, EC4M
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No 37 Cheapside on the corner of Friday Street (c.1880) The ’Society for Photographing Relics of Old London’ was formed when the Oxford Arms - a traditional galleried pub - was about to be pulled down as part of the new Old Bailey development in 1875. The society subsequently campaigned to record disappearing sights, hurriedly commissioning photographs to capture buildings for posterity. Between 1875 and 1886 they produced photographic records of further buildings under threat, which were issued with descriptive text by the painter (and founder of the Society) Alfred Marks. The focus was architectural, not social; the photographs deliberately exclude signs, notices, people and traffic, to concentrate on the appearance of the bricks and mortar. Few of the streets in their images remain. This section of Friday Street was demolished after the Second World War.
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In the neighbourhood...

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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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Illustration of Fleet Market
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Amen Court, EC4M
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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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Farringdon Street, EC4M
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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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Kirby Street sign
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Pardon Street
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