Anchor Yard, EC1Y

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

During they 18th century the popular Anchor Tavern graced this part of Old Street. In those days the Yard was much larger than it is today, probably with an opening wide enough to accept a dray cart. Here would have stood the empty wooden hogsheads awaiting collection on delivery day, and on summery evenings there would very likely have been multitudes swilling jugs of ale while looking on at a friendly skittle or bowling match.

For nigh on 200 years the Yard has been without its tavern; the Anchor was demolished at the beginning of the 19th century.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

The Underground Map Aldgate Added: 8 Mar 2021 15:05 GMT	A plague on all your houses Aldgate station is built directly on top of a vast plague pit, where thousands of bodies are apparently buried. No-one knows quite how many. Reply
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
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
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
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
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

Ron Shepherd 91 Fernhead Road, W9 Added: 18 Sep 2021 17:28 GMT	More Wisdom Norman Joseph Wisdom was born in St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, West London. Reply
Jonathan Penner Pennard Road, W12 Added: 11 Sep 2021 16:03 GMT	Pennard Road, W12 My wife and I, young Canadians, lodged at 65 (?) Pennard Road with a fellow named Clive and his girlfriend, Melanie, for about 6 months in 1985. We loved the area and found it extremely convenient. Reply
Senegal Road, SE16 Added: 1 Sep 2021 16:58 GMT	Prefabs! The "post-war detached houses" mentioned in the description were "prefabs" - self-contained single-storey pre-fabricated dwellings. Demolition of houses on the part that became Senegal Fields was complete by 1964 or 1965. Source: Prefabs in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia Reply
Matthew Moggridge ([email protected]) Lord Chatham’s Ride, TN14 Added: 1 Sep 2021 10:38 GMT	Lord Chatham’s Ride (does it even exist?) Just to say that I cycled from my home in Sanderstead to Knockholt Pound at the weekend hoping to ride Lord Chatham’s Ride, but could I find it? No. I rode up Chevening Lane, just past the Three Horseshoes pub and when I reached the end of the road there was a gate and a sign reading "Private, No Entry". I assumed this was the back entrance to Chevening House, country retreat of the Foreign Secretary, and that Lord Chatham’s Ride was inside the grounds. At least that’s what I’m assuming as I ended up following a footpath that led me into some woods with loads of rooted pathways, all very annoying. Does Lord Chatham’s Ride exist and if so, can I ride it, or is it within the grounds of Chevening House and, therefore, out of bounds? Here’s an account of my weekend ride with images, see URL below. Source: No Visible Lycra: Lord Chatham’s ride: a big disappointmen Reply
norma brown Theobald Street (watercolour) Added: 20 Aug 2021 21:12 GMT	my grandparents lived there as well as 2 further generations my home Reply
Ruth Cheltenham Road, SE15 Added: 6 Aug 2021 13:31 GMT	Cheltenham Road, SE15 Harris Girls’ Academy, in Homestall Road, just off Cheltenham Road, was formerly Waverley School. Before that it was built as Honor Oak Girls’ Grammar School. It was also the South London Emergency School during WW2,taking girls from various schools in the vicinity, including those returning from being evacuated. Reply
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

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Golden Lane Estate, EC1Y

Hicks Hall Hicks Hall (1611 - 1778) was a building in St John Street, Clerkenwell.

Hicks Hall

Honourable Artillery Company Museum The Honourable Artillery Company Museum opened in 1987.

Honourable Artillery Company Museum

Museum of the Order of St John The Museum of the Order of St John in Clerkenwell, London, tells the story of the Venerable Order of Saint John.

Museum of the Order of St John

St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics was founded in London in 1751 for the treatment of incurable pauper lunatics by a group of philanthropists.

St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics

Wesley’s Chapel Wesley’s Chapel - originally the City Road Chapel - is a Methodist church built under the direction of John Wesley.

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Whitefield’s Tabernacle Whitefield’s Tabernacle is a former church at the corner of Tabernacle Street and Leonard Street.

Whitefield’s Tabernacle

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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

Amias Place, EC1Y Amias Place was formerly George Yard.

Amias Place, EC1Y

Ashby Street, EC1V Ashby Street was named after local landowners who had a seat at Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire.

Ashby Street, EC1V

Baldwin Street, EC1V Baldwin Street was named after Richard Baldwin, Treasurer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital when the street was built in 1811.

Baldwin Street, EC1V

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

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

Banner Street, EC1Y

Bartholomew Square, EC1V This is a street in the EC1V postcode area

Bartholomew Square, EC1V

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

Bastwick Street, EC1V

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

Bath Street, EC1V

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

Berry Place, EC1V

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

Berry Street, EC1M

Braithwaite House, EC1Y Residential block

Braithwaite House, EC1Y

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

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

Broad Yard, EC1M

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

Bunhill Fields, EC1Y

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

Bunhill Row, EC1Y

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

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

Chequer Street, EC1Y

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

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

City Forum, EC1V

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

City Road, EC1Y

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

Clerkenwell Road, EC1M

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

Compton Street, EC1V

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

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

Dingley Road, EC1V

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

Ebenezer Street, EC1V A street within the N1 postcode

Ebenezer Street, EC1V

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

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

Faulkners Alley, EC1M

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

Featherstone Street, EC1Y

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

Gambier House, EC1V Residential block

Gambier House, 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

Godfrey House, EC1V Godfrey House is on the St Lukes Estate.

Godfrey House, EC1V

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

Golden Lane, EC1Y

Golden Lane, EC2Y Golden Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC2Y postal area.

Golden Lane, EC2Y

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

Goswell Road, EC1A

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

Goswell Road, EC1V

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

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

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

King Square, EC1V

Lamb’s Passage, EC1Y Lamb’s Passage was formerly Great Swordbearers (Sword Bearers) Alley.

Lamb’s Passage, EC1Y

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

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

Lizard Street, EC1V

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

Long Lane, EC1M

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

Macclesfield Road, EC1V

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

Mallow Street, EC1Y

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

Malta Street, EC1V

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

Martha’s Buildings, EC1Y

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

Masons Place, EC1V

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

Memel Street, EC1Y

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

Mitchell Street, EC1V

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

Mora Street, EC1V

Murton Street, EC1V Murton Street dates from about 1829.

Murton Street, EC1V

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

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

Old Street, EC1Y

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

Oliver’s Yard, EC2A

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

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

Peerless Street, EC1V

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

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

Provost & East Building, Provost & East Building lies within the postcode.

Provost & East Building,

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

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

Saint John Street, EC1M

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

Sebastian Street, EC1V

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

Seward Street, EC1V

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

Shepherdess Place, N1

Silbury Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Silbury Street, N1

Silicon Way, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Silicon Way, N1

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

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

St John’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 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

Victoria House, EC1V A street within the EC1V postcode

Victoria House, EC1V

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

Wellesley Terrace, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Wellesley Terrace, N1

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

Westland Place, N1

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

Whitecross Street, EC1Y

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

Young’s Buildings, EC1Y

NEARBY PUBS

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

Artillery Arms

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

Bavarian Beerhouse

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

Honourable Artillery Company

Love’s Company, Unit 1 This pub existed immediately prior to the 2020 global pandemic and may still do so.

Love’s Company, Unit 1

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

Masque Haunt

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

Nomad Club

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

Sabor Iberico

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

Singer

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

Sutton Arms

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

The Angel

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

The Old Fountain

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

The Old Ivy House

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

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

White Bear

Queen’s Park

Queen’s Park lies between Kilburn and Kensal Green, developed from 1875 onwards and named to honour Queen Victoria.

The north of Queen’s Park formed part of the parish of Willesden and the southern section formed an exclave of the parish of Chelsea, both in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex. In 1889 the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works that included the southern section of Queen’s Park was transferred from Middlesex to the County of London, and in 1900 the anomaly of being administered from Chelsea was removed when the exclave was united with the parish of Paddington. In 1965 both parts of Queen’s Park became part of Greater London: the northern section - Queen’s Park ’proper’ formed part of Brent and the southern section - the Queen’s Park Estate - joined the City of Westminster.

Queen’s Park, like much of Kilburn, was developed by Solomon Barnett. The two-storey terraced houses east of the park, built between 1895 and 1900, typically have clean, classical lines. Those west of the park, built 1900–05, tend to be more Gothic in style. Barnett’s wife was from the West Country, and many of the roads he developed are named either for places she knew (e.g. Torbay, Tiverton, Honiton) or for popular poets of the time (e.g. Tennyson). The first occupants of the area in late Victorian times were typically lower middle class, such as clerks and teachers. Queen’s Park is both demographically and architecturally diverse. The streets around the park at the heart of Queen’s Park are a conservation area.

There is hardly any social housing in the streets around Queens Park itself, and the area was zoned as not suitable for social housing in the 1970s and 1980s as even then house prices were above average for the borough of Brent, which made them unaffordable for local Housing Associations. The main shopping streets of Salusbury Road and Chamberlayne Road have fewer convenience stores and more high-value shops and restaurants. Local schools – some of which struggled to attract the children of wealthier local families in the past – are now over-subscribed. House prices have risen accordingly.

Queen’s Park station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway on 2 June 1879 on the main line from London to Birmingham.

Services on the Bakerloo line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen’s Park on 11 February 1915. On 10 May 1915 Bakerloo services began to operate north of Queen’s Park as far as Willesden Junction over the recently built Watford DC Line tracks shared with the LNWR.

LOCAL PHOTOS

Smithfield Market TUM image id: 1620388545 Licence:	St Lukes Hospital for Lunatics, London TUM image id: 1554045418 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The gravestone of English poet William Blake in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground Credit: https://careergappers.com/ TUM image id: 1622643378 Licence:	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	View of Cloth Fair in 1884 showing the side entrance to St Bartholomew’s Priory, Smithfield. Credit: John Crowther TUM image id: 1622807402 Licence:	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	Pardon Street Credit: The Underground Map TUM image id: 1605906093 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Until combined in the twentieth century, St John Street was split between St John Street (south) and St John Street Road (north) Old London postcard TUM image id: 1620299776 Licence:
(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 TUM image id: 1620387173 Licence:	Kennedy’s - who sold sausages and pies around Camberwell and Peckham - delivering at Smithfield Market TUM image id: 1620388238 Licence:	An early-nineteenth century Act of Parliament chose a site in St Martin’s Le Grand, City of London for a new General Post Office which established its headquarters on the site of a former monastic precinct in 1829. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1625064105 Licence:	Albion Place in 1902, looking east towards the Old Baptist’s Head public house and No. 31 St John’s Lane, Clerkenwell TUM image id: 1620252983 Licence:	The Old Bull & Mouth Inn, St. Martin’s-Le-Grand, engraved by W. Watkins, after Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Credit: W. Watkins TUM image id: 1544532894 Licence: CC BY 2.0