Development House, EC2A

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

The Underground Map Pepys Street, EC3N Added: 20 Sep 2020 13:01 GMT	Pepys starts diary On 1 January 1659, Samuel Pepys started his famous daily diary and maintained it for ten years. The diary has become perhaps the most extensive source of information on this critical period of English history. Pepys never considered that his diary would be read by others. The original diary consisted of six volumes written in Shelton shorthand, which he had learned as an undergraduate on scholarship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. This shorthand was introduced in 1626, and was the same system Isaac Newton used when writing. Reply
Katharina Logan Ely Place, N1 Added: 9 Aug 2022 19:01 GMT	Ely place existed in name in 1857 On 7th July 1857 John James Chase and Mary Ann Weekes were married at St John the Baptist Hoxton, he of full age and she a minor. Both parties list their place of residence as Ely Place, yet according to other information, this street was not named until 1861. He was a bricklayer, she had no occupation listed, but both were literate and able to sign their names on their marriage certificate. Source: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSF7-Q9Y7?cc=3734475 Reply
Marion James Edith Street, E2 Added: 12 Mar 2021 17:43 GMT	26 Edith Street Haggerston On Monday 11th October 1880 Charlotte Alice Haynes was born at 26 Edith Street Haggerston the home address of her parents her father Francis Haynes a Gilder by trade and her mother Charlotte Alice Haynes and her two older siblings Francis & George who all welcomed the new born baby girl into the world as they lived in part of the small Victorian terraced house which was shared by another family had an outlook view onto the world of the Imperial Gas Works site - a very grey drab reality of the life they were living as an East End working class family - 26 Edith Street no longer stands in 2021 - the small rundown polluted terrace houses of Edith Street are long since gone along with the Gas Companies buildings to be replaced with green open parkland that is popular in 21st century by the trendy residents of today - Charlotte Alice Haynes (1880-1973) is the wife of my Great Grand Uncle Henry Pickett (1878-1930) As I research my family history I slowly begin to understand the life my descendants had to live and the hardships that they went through to survive - London is my home and there are many areas of this great city I find many of my descendants living working and dying in - I am yet to find the golden chalice! But in all truthfulness my family history is so much more than hobby its an understanding of who I am as I gather their stories. Did Charlotte Alice Pickett nee Haynes go on to live a wonderful life - no I do not think so as she became a widow in 1930 worked in a canteen and never remarried living her life in and around Haggerston & Hackney until her death in 1973 with her final resting place at Manor Park Cemetery - I think Charlotte most likely excepted her lot in life like many women from her day, having been born in the Victorian era where the woman had less choice and standing in society, which is a sad state of affairs - So I will endeavour to write about Charlotte and the many other women in my family history to give them the voice of a life they so richly deserve to be recorded ! Edith Street was well situated for the new public transport of two railway stations in 1880 :- Haggerston Railway Station opened in 1867 & Cambridge Heath Railway Station opened in 1872 Reply
Jeff Owen Owen Street, EC1V Added: 20 Mar 2021 16:18 GMT	Owen’s School Owen Street is the site of Owen’s Boys’ School. The last school was built in 1881 and was demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the development which stand there today. It was a “Direct Grant” grammar school and was founded in 1613 by Dame Alice Owen. What is now “Owen’s Fields” was the playground between the old school and the new girls’ school (known then as “Dames Alice Owen’s School” or simply “DAOS”). The boys’ school had the top two floors of that building for their science labs. The school moved to Potters Bar in Hertfordshire in 1971 and is now one of the top State comprehensive schools in the country. The old building remained in use as an accountancy college and taxi-drivers’ “knowledge” school until it was demolished. The new building is now part of City and Islington College. Owen’s was a fine school. I should know because I attended there from 1961 to 1968. Reply
Bernard Miller Windsor Terrace, N1 Added: 12 Apr 2022 17:36 GMT	My mother and her sister were born at 9 Windsor Terrace My mother, Millie Haring (later Miller) and her sister Yetta Haring (later Freedman) were born here in 1922 and 1923. With their parents and older brother and sister, they lived in two rooms until they moved to Stoke Newington in 1929. She always said there were six rooms, six families, a shared sink on the first floor landing and a toilet in the backyard. Reply
jack stevens Whites Row, E1 Added: 26 Sep 2021 13:38 GMT	Mothers birth place Number 5 Whites Row which was built in around 1736 and still standing was the premises my now 93 year old mother was born in, her name at birth was Hilda Evelyne Shaw, Reply
margaret clark Thrawl Street, E1 Added: 15 Oct 2021 22:23 GMT	Margaret’s address when she married in 1938 ^, Josepine House, Stepney is the address of my mother on her marriage certificate 1938. Her name was Margaret Irene Clark. Her father Basil Clark was a warehouse grocer. Reply
Old Nichol Street, E2 Added: 6 Nov 2021 15:03 GMT	Old Nichol Street, E2 Information about my grandfather’s tobacconist shop Reply
Admin Tower Bridge, SE1 Added: 26 Aug 2022 15:19 GMT	Bus makes a leap A number 78 double-decker bus driven by Albert Gunter was forced to jump an accidentally opening Tower Bridge. He was awarded a £10 bonus. Reply
Steven Shepherd Pitfield Street, N1 Added: 4 Feb 2021 14:20 GMT	Our House I and my three brothers were born at 178 Pitfield Street. All of my Mothers Family (ADAMS) Lived in the area. There was an area behind the house where the Hoxton Stall holders would keep the barrows. The house was classed as a slum but was a large house with a basement. The basement had 2 rooms that must have been unchanged for many years it contained a ’copper’ used to boil and clean clothes and bedlinen and a large ’range’ a cast iron coal/log fired oven. Coal was delivered through a ’coal hole’ in the street which dropped through to the basement. The front of the house used to be a shop but unused while we lived there. I have many more happy memories of the house too many to put here. Reply
Mike Elia Street, N1 Added: 28 Feb 2023 18:09 GMT	6 Elia Street When I was young I lived in 6 Elia Street. At the end of the garden there was a garage owned by Initial Laundries which ran from an access in Quick Street all the way up to the back of our garden. The fire exit to the garage was a window leading into our garden. 6 Elia Street was owned by Initial Laundry. Reply
MCNALLY Blackfriars Added: 17 May 2021 09:42 GMT	Blackfriars (1959 - 1965) I lived in Upper Ground from 1959 to 1964 I was 6 years old my parents Vince and Kitty run the Pub The Angel on the corner of Upper Ground and Bodies Bridge. I remember the ceiling of the cellar was very low and almost stretched the length of Bodies Bridge. The underground trains run directly underneath the pub. If you were down in the cellar when a train was coming it was quite frightening Reply
Martin Eaton Shoreditch Added: 14 Oct 2021 03:56 GMT	Boundary Estate Sunbury, Taplow House. Reply
STEPHEN JACKSON Fellows Court, E2 Added: 14 Nov 2021 17:25 GMT	Fellows Court, E2 my family moved into the tower block 13th floor (maisonette), in 1967 after our street Lenthall rd e8 was demolished, we were one of the first families in the new block. A number of families from our street were rehoused in this and the adjoining flats. Inside toilet and central heating, all very modern at the time, plus eventually a tarmac football pitch in the grounds,(the cage), with a goal painted by the kids on the brick wall of the railway. Reply
The Underground Map Aldgate Added: 8 Mar 2021 15:05 GMT	A plague on all your houses Aldgate station is built directly on top of a vast plague pit, where thousands of bodies are apparently buried. No-one knows quite how many. Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Christine D Elliott Blockhouse Street, SE15 Added: 20 Mar 2023 15:52 GMT	The Blute Family My grandparents, Frederick William Blute & Alice Elizabeth Blute nee: Warnham lived at 89 Blockhouse Street Deptford from around 1917.They had six children. 1. Alice Maragret Blute (my mother) 2. Frederick William Blute 3. Charles Adrian Blute 4. Violet Lillian Blute 5. Donald Blute 6. Stanley Vincent Blute (Lived 15 months). I lived there with my family from 1954 (Birth) until 1965 when we were re-housed for regeneration to the area. I attended Ilderton Road School. Very happy memories of that time. Reply
Pearl Foster Dukes Place, EC3A Added: 20 Mar 2023 12:22 GMT	Dukes Place, EC3A Until his death in 1767, Daniel Nunes de Lara worked from his home in Dukes Street as a Pastry Cook. It was not until much later the street was renamed Dukes Place. Daniel and his family attended the nearby Bevis Marks synagogue for Sephardic Jews. The Ashkenazi Great Synagogue was established in Duke Street, which meant Daniel’s business perfectly situated for his occupation as it allowed him to cater for both congregations. Reply
Dr Paul Flewers Hawthorne Close, N1 Added: 9 Mar 2023 18:12 GMT	Some Brief Notes on Hawthorne Close / Hawthorne Street My great-grandparents lived in the last house on the south side of Hawthorne Street, no 13, and my grandmother Alice Knopp and her brothers and sisters grew up there. Alice Knopp married Charles Flewers, from nearby Hayling Road, and moved to Richmond, Surrey, where I was born. Leonard Knopp married Esther Gutenberg and lived there until the street was demolished in the mid-1960s, moving on to Tottenham. Uncle Len worked in the fur trade, then ran a pet shop in, I think, the Kingsland Road. From the back garden, one could see the almshouses in the Balls Pond Road. There was an ink factory at the end of the street, which I recall as rather malodorous. Reply
KJH Andover Road, N7 Added: 7 Mar 2023 17:14 GMT	Andover Road, N7 (1939 - 1957) My aunt, Doris nee Curtis (aka Jo) and her husband John Hawkins (aka Jack) ran a small general stores at 92 Andover Road (N7). I have found details in the 1939 register but don’t know how long before that it was opened.He died in 1957. In the 1939 register he is noted as being an ARP warden for Islington warden Reply
The Queens Head Added: 2 Mar 2023 13:50 GMT	The Queens Head Queens Head demolished and a NISA supermarket and flats built in its place. Reply
Mike Elia Street, N1 Added: 28 Feb 2023 18:09 GMT	6 Elia Street When I was young I lived in 6 Elia Street. At the end of the garden there was a garage owned by Initial Laundries which ran from an access in Quick Street all the way up to the back of our garden. The fire exit to the garage was a window leading into our garden. 6 Elia Street was owned by Initial Laundry. Reply
Fumblina Whitfield Street, W1T Added: 21 Feb 2023 11:39 GMT	Error on 1800 map numbering for John Street The 1800 map of Whitfield Street (17 zoom) has an error in the numbering shown on the map. The houses are numbered up the right hand side of John Street and Upper John Street to #47 and then are numbered down the left hand side until #81 BUT then continue from 52-61 instead of 82-91. Reply
P Cash Woburn Place, WC1H Added: 19 Feb 2023 08:03 GMT	Occupants of 19-29 Woburn Place The Industrial Tribunals (later changed to Employment Tribunals) moved (from its former location on Ebury Bridge Road to 19-29 Woburn Place sometime in the late 1980s (I believe). 19-29 Woburn Place had nine floors in total (one in the basement and two in its mansard roof and most of the building was occupied by the Tribunals The ’Head Office’ of the tribunals, occupied space on the 7th, 6th and 2nd floors, whilst one of the largest of the regional offices (London North but later called London Central) occupied space in the basement, ground and first floor. The expansive ground floor entrance had white marble flooring and a security desk. Behind (on evey floor) lay a square (& uncluttered) lobby space, which was flanked on either side by lifts. On the rear side was an elegant staircase, with white marble steps, brass inlays and a shiny brass handrail which spiralled around an open well. Both staircase, stairwell and lifts ran the full height of the building. On all floors from 1st upwards, staff toilets were tucked on either side of the staircase (behind the lifts). Basement Floor - Tribunal hearing rooms, dormant files store and secure basement space for Head Office. Public toilets. Geound Floor - The ’post’ roon sat next to the entrance in the northern side, the rest of which was occupied by the private offices of the full time Tribunal judiciary. Thw largest office belonged to the Regional Chair and was situated on the far corner (overlooking Tavistock Square) The secretary to the Regional Chair occupied a small office next door. The south side of this floor was occupied by the large open plan General Office for the administration, a staff kitchen & rest room and the private offices of the Regional Secretary (office manager) and their deputy. First Dloor - Tribunal hearing rooms; separate public waiting rooms for Applicants & Respondents; two small rooms used by Counsel (on a ’whoever arrives first’ bases) and a small private rest room for use by tribunal lay members. Second Floor - Tribunal Hearing Rooms; Tribunal Head Office - HR & Estate Depts & other tennants. Third Floor - other tennants Fourth Floor - other tennants Fifth Floor - Other Tennants except for a large non-smoking room for staff, (which overlooked Tavistock Sqaure). It was seldom used, as a result of lacking any facities aside from a meagre collection of unwanted’ tatty seating. Next to it, (overlooking Tavistock Place) was a staff canteen. Sixth Floor - Other tennants mostly except for a few offices on the northern side occupied by tribunal Head Office - IT Dept. Seventh Floor - Other tenants in the northern side. The southern (front) side held the private offices of several senior managers (Secretariat, IT & Finance), private office of the Chief Accuntant; an office for two private secretaries and a stationary cupboard. On the rear side was a small kitchen; the private office of the Chief Executive and the private office of the President of the Tribunals for England & Wales. (From 1995 onwards, this became a conference room as the President was based elsewhere. The far end of this side contained an open plan office for Head Office staff - Secretariat, Finance & HR (staff training team) depts. Eighth Floor - other tennants. The Employment Tribunals (Regional & Head Offices) relocated to Vitory House, Kingsway in April 2005. Reply

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Bunhill Fields Bunhill Fields was in use as a burial ground from 1665 until 1854.

Bunhill Fields

Courtyard Theatre The Courtyard is a theatre housed in the former Passmore Edwards Free Library.

Courtyard Theatre

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

Honourable Artillery Company Museum

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

Tenter Ground Tenter Ground harks back to the seventeenth century when this patch of land was surrounded by weavers’ houses and workshops and used to wash and stretch their fabrics on ’tenters’ to dry.

Tenter Ground

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

Wesley’s Chapel

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

Albert House, EC1V

Alexander Russell House, EC2A Alexander Russell House is a block on Great Eastern Street.

Alexander Russell House, EC2A

Alleyn House, EC1Y Alleyn House is a block on Chequer Street.

Alleyn House, EC1Y

Alphabeta Building, EC2A Alphabeta Building is sited on Worship Street.

Alphabeta Building, EC2A

Appold Street, EC2A Appold Street runs north-south on the City of London side of Liverpool Street station.

Appold Street, EC2A

Arnold House, EC2A Arnold House is a block on Great Eastern Street.

Arnold House, EC2A

Astrix House, EC2A Astrix House is a block on Holywell Row.

Astrix House, EC2A

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

Bache’s Street, N1

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

Baldwin Street, EC1V

Banner House, EC1Y Banner House is a block on Banner Street.

Banner House, EC1Y

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

Banner Street, EC1Y

Baroda House, EC1Y Baroda House is located on City Road.

Baroda House, EC1Y

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

Bartholomew Square, EC1V

Bartletts Place, EC2A Bartletts Place was Bartletts Buildings on the 1860s mapping, not appearing before then.

Bartletts Place, EC2A

Bateman’s Row, EC2A This is a street in the EC2A postcode area

Bateman’s Row, EC2A

Bath Place, EC2A Bath Place leads off of Rivington Street.

Bath Place, EC2A

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

Bath Street, EC1V

Bavaria House, EC2A Bavaria House is sited on Appold Street.

Bavaria House, EC2A

Ben Jonson House, EC1Y Ben Jonson House is sited on Golden Lane.

Ben Jonson House, EC1Y

Ben Jonson House, EC2Y Ben Jonson House is a block on Golden Lane.

Ben Jonson House, EC2Y

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

Bentima House, EC1V

Bishopsgate Court, E1 Bishopsgate Court is a block on Norton Folgate.

Bishopsgate Court, E1

Black & White Building, EC2A Black & White Building is a block on Rivington Street.

Black & White Building, EC2A

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

Blackall Street, EC2A

Blacksea House, EC2A Blacksea House is a block on Wilson Street.

Blacksea House, EC2A

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

Bonhill Street, EC2A

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

Boot Street, N1

Bornhill Street, EC2A Bornhill Street is a location in London.

Bornhill Street, EC2A

Bowl Court, EC2A Bowl Court is a road in the E1 postcode area

Bowl Court, EC2A

Bowling Green Walk, N1 Bowling Green Walk is a road in the N1 postcode area

Bowling Green Walk, N1

Braithwaite House, EC1Y Braithwaite House is a block on Bunhill Row.

Braithwaite House, EC1Y

Breton House, EC2Y Breton House is a block on Golden Lane.

Breton House, EC2Y

Broadgate Tower, EC2A Broadgate Tower can be found on Primrose Street.

Broadgate Tower, EC2A

Broadwalk House, EC2A Broadwalk House is a block on Appold Street.

Broadwalk House, EC2A

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

Brunswick Place, EC1V

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

Burbage House, EC2A Burbage House is a block on Curtain Road.

Burbage House, EC2A

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

Castle House, EC2A

Chapel Place, EC2A Chapel Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Chapel Place, EC2A

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

Charles Square, N1

Charlotte House, EC2A Charlotte House can be found on Charlotte Road.

Charlotte House, EC2A

Charlotte Road, EC2A Charlotte Road is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Charlotte Road, EC2A

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

Chart Street, N1

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

Chiswell Street, EC1Y

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

Christina Street, EC2A

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

Christopher Street, EC2A

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

City Lofts, EC2A

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

City Road, EC1Y

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

Classic House, EC1V

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

Clere Street, EC2A

Clifton House, EC2A Clifton House is a block on Holywell Row.

Clifton House, EC2A

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

Clifton Street, EC2A

Cock Alley, EC2M Cock Alley was a rather risque streetname leading west off Norton Folgate.

Cock Alley, EC2M

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

Coronet Street, N1

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

Corsham Street, N1

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

Cowper Street, EC2A

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

Cranwood Street, EC1V

Cromwell Tower, EC2Y Cromwell Tower is a block on Silk Street.

Cromwell Tower, EC2Y

Crown Place, EC2A Crown Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Crown Place, EC2A

Curtain House, EC2A Curtain House is sited on Curtain Road.

Curtain House, EC2A

Curtain Place, EC2A Curtain Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Curtain Place, EC2A

Curtain Road, EC2A Curtain Road was the first location of a place called a ’theatre’ - in the sense of a location where acting is performed.

Curtain Road, EC2A

Curzon House, EC2A Curzon House is a block on Clifton Street.

Curzon House, EC2A

Davies House, EC2A Davies House is a block on Sun Street.

Davies House, EC2A

Dereham Place, EC2A Dereham Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Dereham Place, EC2A

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

DialaCab House, N1

Drysdale Place, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Drysdale Place, N1

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

Drysdale Street, N1

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

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

Earl Street, EC2A

Ebenezer Street, EC1V A street within the N1 postcode

Ebenezer Street, EC1V

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

EMA House, EC2A

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

Entex House, EC1V

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

Epworth Street, EC2A

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

Errol Street, EC1Y

Fairchild Place, EC2A Fairchild Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Fairchild Place, EC2A

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

Fairchild Street, EC2A

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

Featherstone Street, EC1Y

Finsbury Square, EC2A Finsbury Square is a 0.7-hectare square in central London which includes a six-rink grass bowling green.

Finsbury Square, EC2A

Fitzroy House, EC2A Fitzroy House is a block on Epworth Street.

Fitzroy House, EC2A

Fortune House, EC1Y Fortune House is a block on Fortune Street.

Fortune House, EC1Y

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

Fortune Street, EC1Y

French Place, EC2A French Place is one of the streets of London in the E1 postal area.

French Place, EC2A

Galileo Apartments, EC1Y Galileo Apartments is a block on Featherstone Street.

Galileo Apartments, EC1Y

Galway Street, EC1V Galway Street was named for the Earl of Galway.

Galway Street, EC1V

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

Gambier House, EC1V

Garden Walk, EC2A Garden Walk is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Garden Walk, EC2A

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

Gastigny House, EC1V

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

Gatesborough Street, EC2A

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

Glyn House, EC1Y

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

Godfrey House St Lukes Estate, EC1V

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

Godfrey House, EC1V

Great Eastern Street, EC2A Great Eastern Street was laid out in 1872-6

Great Eastern Street, EC2A

Gun Yard, E1 Gun Yard ran west out of Norton Folgate.

Gun Yard, E1

Hackney House, EC2A Hackney House is a block on Curtain Road.

Hackney House, EC2A

Hearn Street, EC2A Hearn Street is a road in the EC2A postcode area

Hearn Street, EC2A

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

Hewett Street, EC2A

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

Hoffman Square, N1

Holderness House, EC2A Holderness House is a block on Clifton Street.

Holderness House, EC2A

Holywell Centre, EC2A Holywell Centre is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Holywell Centre, EC2A

Holywell Lane, EC2A Holywell Lane runs west from Shoreditch High Street and runs on to Curtain Road.

Holywell Lane, EC2A

Holywell Row, EC2A Holywell Row is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Holywell Row, EC2A

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

Hoxton Market, N1

Hoxton Square, N1 Hoxton Square is a garden square laid out in 1683

Hoxton Square, N1

Karma Yoga House, EC1V A street within the N1 postcode

Karma Yoga House, EC1V

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

Kayam House, EC2A

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

Kiffen Street, EC2A

King John Court, E1 King John Court runs between Holywell Lane and New Inn Yard.

King John Court, E1

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

Lamb’s Passage, EC1Y

Leonard Circus, EC2A Leonard Circus is a location in London.

Leonard Circus, EC2A

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

Leonard Street, EC2A

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

Lexington Apartments, EC1Y

Life Line House, EC2A Life Line House is sited on Clifton Street.

Life Line House, EC2A

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

Lizard Street, EC1V

London City House, EC1V London City House is a block on City Road.

London City House, EC1V

Longbow House, EC1Y Longbow House is a block on Chiswell Street.

Longbow House, EC1Y

Longbow House, EC2A Longbow House is a block on Chiswell Street.

Longbow House, EC2A

Lowndes House, EC1Y Lowndes House is located on City Road.

Lowndes House, EC1Y

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

Luke Street, EC2A

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

Mallow Street, EC1Y

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

Mark Street, EC2A

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

Martha’s Buildings, EC1Y

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

Mercury House, N1

Michael House, EC1Y Michael House is a block on Chiswell Street.

Michael House, EC1Y

Mill House, EC2A Residential block

Mill House, EC2A

Mills Court, EC2A Mills Court is a location in London.

Mills Court, EC2A

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

Monmouth House, EC1Y

Moor Alley, EC2M Moor Alley ran from Norton Folgate to Moor’s Garden.

Moor Alley, EC2M

Moorâ€™s Garden, EC2P Moor’s Garden was buried under the platforms of Liverpool Street station.

Moorâ€™s Garden, EC2P

Moorgate House, EC2A Moorgate House is a block on Dysart Street.

Moorgate House, EC2A

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

Mora Street, EC1V

Morrell House, EC2A Morrell House is a block on Curtain Road.

Morrell House, EC2A

Mundy Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Mundy Street, N1

Murton Street, EC1V Murton Street dates from about 1829.

Murton Street, EC1V

Nena House, EC2A Nena House can be found on Great Eastern Street.

Nena House, EC2A

New Inn Broadway, EC2A New Inn Broadway is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

New Inn Broadway, EC2A

New Inn Square, EC2A New Inn Square is a road in the EC2A postcode area

New Inn Square, EC2A

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

New Inn Street, EC2A

New Inn Yard, E1 New Inn Yard once ran through Holywell Priory at the western end of which was the world’s first ’theatre’.

New Inn Yard, E1

New North Place, EC2A New North Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

New North Place, EC2A

Norton Folgate, E1 Norton Folgate links Bishopsgate and Shoreditch High Street.

Norton Folgate, E1

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

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

Parkinson Court, N1

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

Paul Street, EC2A

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

Peerless Street, EC1V

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

Phipp Street, EC2A

Pindar Street, EC2A Pindar Street is a road in the EC2A postcode area

Pindar Street, EC2A

Plough Yard, EC2A Plough Yard is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Plough Yard, EC2A

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

Primrose Street, EC2A

Primrose Street, EC2A Primrose Street is a location in London.

Primrose Street, EC2A

Principal Place, EC2A Principal Place is a location in London.

Principal Place, EC2A

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

Provost & East Building,

Quaker Court, EC1Y Quaker Court is a block on Banner Street

Quaker Court, EC1Y

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

Radnor Street, EC1V

Railway Arches, EC2A Railway Arches is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Railway Arches, EC2A

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

Ravey Street, EC2A

Rivington House, EC2A Rivington House is a block on Great Eastern Street.

Rivington House, EC2A

Rivington Place, EC2A Rivington Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Rivington Place, EC2A

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

Rivington Street, EC2A

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

Roscoe Street, EC1Y

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

Rufus Street, N1

Scrutton Street, EC2A Scrutton Street is the eastern extension of Epworth Street.

Scrutton Street, EC2A

Silbury Street, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Silbury Street, N1

Silicon Way, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Silicon Way, N1

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

Singer Street, EC1V

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

Singer Street, EC1V

Snowden Street, EC2A Snowden Street is a road in the EC2A postcode area

Snowden Street, EC2A

Square Studio, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Square Studio, N1

St Mary’s Tower, EC1Y St Mary’s Tower is a block on Fortune Street.

St Mary’s Tower, EC1Y

Standard Place, EC2A Standard Place is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Standard Place, EC2A

Stapleton House, EC2A Stapleton House is a block on Clifton Street.

Stapleton House, EC2A

Summit House, EC2A Summit House is a block on Great Eastern Street.

Summit House, EC2A

Suna House, EC2A Suna House is sited on Rivington Street.

Suna House, EC2A

Symister Mews, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Symister Mews, N1

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

Tabernacle Street, EC2A

Technico House, EC2A Technico House is located on Christopher Street.

Technico House, EC2A

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

Telephone House, EC2A

Templeton House, EC1Y Templeton House is a block on Chiswell Street.

Templeton House, EC1Y

The Arches, EC2A The Arches is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

The Arches, EC2A

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

The Bezier Apartments, EC1Y

The Broadgate Tower, EC2A A street within the EC2A postcode

The Broadgate Tower, EC2A

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

Tilney Court, EC1Y

Timber Yard, N1 A street within the N1 postcode

Timber Yard, N1

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

Touchard House, N1

Unicorn House, E1 Unicorn House can be found on Shoreditch High Street.

Unicorn House, E1

Unicorn House, EC2A Unicorn House is a building on Shoreditch High Street.

Unicorn House, EC2A

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

Vandy Street, EC2A

Victoria House, EC1V A street within the EC1V postcode

Victoria House, EC1V

Victoria House, EC2A Victoria House is a location in London.

Victoria House, EC2A

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

Vince Court, N1

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

Vince Street, EC1V

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

Wendt House, E1 Wendt House can be found on Shoreditch High Street.

Wendt House, E1

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

Whitecross Street, EC1Y

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

Willen House, EC1V

Willow Court, EC2A Willow Court is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Willow Court, EC2A

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

Willow Street, EC2A

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

Wilson Street, EC2A

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

Winkworth Court, N1

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

Works House, N1

Worship Mews, EC2A Worship Mews is one of the streets of London in the EC2A postal area.

Worship Mews, EC2A

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

Worship Street, EC2A

Zeus House 16-30, EC2A A street within the EC2A postcode

Zeus House 16-30, EC2A

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

NEARBY PUBS

Blackwall Tunnel The Old Kings Head is located at 28 Holywell Row, EC2.

Blackwall Tunnel

Cargo, The Arches

Casita

Charlie Wright’s International

Dragon Bar

East Village

Far Rockaway

Honourable Artillery Company

Horse And Groom The Horse And Groom is on Curtain Road.

Horse And Groom

Iambic Bar

Lounge Bohemia

Love’s Company, Unit 1

Masque Haunt

McQueen

Ninetyeight Bar and Lounge

Singer

The Fox

The Old Shoreditch Station

The Primrose The Primrose was a pub on the corner of Norton Folgate and Primrose Street.

The Primrose

The Princess Of Shoreditch

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Clerkenwell

Clerkenwell was once known as London’s Little Italy because of the large number of Italians living in the area from the 1850s until the 1960s.

Clerkenwell took its name from the Clerks’ Well in Farringdon Lane. In the Middle Ages, the London Parish clerks performed annual mystery plays there, based on biblical themes. Part of the well remains visible, incorporated into a 1980s building called Well Court.

In the 17th century South Clerkenwell became a fashionable place of residence. Oliver Cromwell owned a house on Clerkenwell Close, just off the Green. Several aristocrats had houses there, most notably the Duke of Northumberland, as did people such as Erasmus Smith.

Before Clerkenwell became a built-up area, it had a reputation as a resort a short walk out of the city, where Londoners could disport themselves at its spas, of which there were several, based on natural chalybeate springs, tea gardens and theatres. The present day Sadler’s Wells has survived as heir to this tradition.

Clerkenwell was also the location of three prisons: the Clerkenwell Bridewell, Coldbath Fields Prison (later Clerkenwell Gaol) and the New Prison, later the Clerkenwell House of Detention, notorious as the scene of the Clerkenwell Outrage in 1867, an attempted prison break by Fenians who killed many in the tenement houses on Corporation Row in trying to blow a hole in the prison wall.

The Industrial Revolution changed the area greatly. It became a centre for breweries, distilleries and the printing industry. It gained a special reputation for the making of clocks and watches, which activity once employed many people from around the area. Flourishing craft workshops still carry on some of the traditional trades, such as jewellery-making. Clerkenwell is home to Witherby’s, Europe’s oldest printing company.

After the Second World War, Clerkenwell suffered from industrial decline and many of the premises occupied by the engineering, printing publishing and meat and food trades (the last mostly around Smithfield) fell empty. Several acclaimed council housing estates were commissioned by Finsbury Borough Council. Modernist architect and Russian émigré Berthold Lubetkin’s listed Spa Green Estate, constructed 1943–1950, has recently been restored. The Finsbury Estate, constructed in 1968 to the designs of Joseph Emberton includes flats, since altered and re-clad.

A general revival and gentrification process began in the 1980s, and the area is now known for loft-living in some of the former industrial buildings. It also has young professionals, nightclubs and restaurants and is home to many professional offices as an overspill for the nearby City of London and West End.

Amongst other sectors, there is a notable concentration of design professions around Clerkenwell, and supporting industries such as high-end designer furniture showrooms.

LOCAL PHOTOS

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Bevis Marks Synagogue Credit: John Salmon TUM image id: 1519475277 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Petticoat Lane in the 1920s Credit: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) TUM image id: 1523993996 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:	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
Geffrye Museum, London (2012) Credit: Chang Yisheng TUM image id: 1557162652 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Mass grave for plague victims, Holywell Mount (1665) Holywell Mount is the source of the River Walbrook. Today it lies underneath Luke Street in Shoreditch but, then in open land, was used as a plague pit in 1665. TUM image id: 1627419399 Licence:	Established in 1745 as The Old Jerusalem, a drinking house took the name of Dirty Dick’s in 1814 and adopted his story along with it. The original of Dirty Dick was Nathaniel Bentley, a successful merchant with a hardware shop and warehouse in Leadenhall Street in the mid-eighteenth century. After his bride-to-be died on their wedding day - so the legend goes - he never cleaned up again, never washed or changed his clothes. Bentley died in 1809, and the Bishopsgate Distillers appropriated this story of the notorious dirty hardware merchant, adorning their bar with dead cats and cobwebs to perpetuate the legend. Credit: Spitalfields Life TUM image id: 1641301488 Licence:	The Primrose pub on the corner of Norton Folgate/Bishopsgate and Primrose Street (1912) The Primrose, which had existed since at least since 1839, was demolished in 1987 Credit: CA Mathew/Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1641566818 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Artillery Lane as viewed from Bishopsgate (1912) Credit: CA Mathew/Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1641571742 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Optician built into the facade of St Ethelburga’s, Bishopsgate, c.1910 Credit: Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1665401859 Licence:	One of the bedrooms of Dennis Severs’ House in Folgate Street, Spitalfields. Each room of Dennis Severs’ House is a preserve ’experience’ of 18th-century Huguenot life. Credit: Wiki Commons TUM image id: 1641983736 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Shepherd’s Place archway (built c. 1810), and Tenter Street (c. 1820) in 1909 TUM image id: 1492897455 Licence:	Shown on many older maps as Dashwood Walk, in the 17th century Alderman’s Walk was a passageway leading to the large house and gardens of Sir Frances Dashwood. The poet John Keats was christened at nearby St Botolph’s church in 1795 Credit: https://careergappers.com TUM image id: 1622637249 Licence:	Looking down Artillery Lane towards Artillery Passage in Spitalfields (1912) Credit: CA Mathew/Bishopsgate Institute TUM image id: 1641420067 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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St Lukes Hospital for Lunatics, London
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The gravestone of English poet William Blake in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
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Mass grave for plague victims, Holywell Mount (1665) Holywell Mount is the source of the River Walbrook. Today it lies underneath Luke Street in Shoreditch but, then in open land, was used as a plague pit in 1665.
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Established in 1745 as The Old Jerusalem, a drinking house took the name of Dirty Dick’s in 1814 and adopted his story along with it. The original of Dirty Dick was Nathaniel Bentley, a successful merchant with a hardware shop and warehouse in Leadenhall Street in the mid-eighteenth century. After his bride-to-be died on their wedding day - so the legend goes - he never cleaned up again, never washed or changed his clothes. Bentley died in 1809, and the Bishopsgate Distillers appropriated this story of the notorious dirty hardware merchant, adorning their bar with dead cats and cobwebs to perpetuate the legend.
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Artillery Lane as viewed from Bishopsgate (1912)
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Shepherd’s Place archway (built c. 1810), and Tenter Street (c. 1820) in 1909
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The site of Gun Yard (1912) Gun Yard disappeared at the time of the First World War. This north-facing view of Norton Folgate shows the widening at this point which demolished Gun Yard which would have been on the left here.
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Crondall Street
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View of Curtain Road, Shoreditch from the corner of Great Eastern Street (1896)
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Butcher, Hoxton St, Shoreditch (c.1910)
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