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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

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Tom

Blackfriars

Added: 21 May 2021 23:07 GMT

Blackfriars
What is, or was, Bodies Bridge?

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St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street

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St Mary Somerset

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St Nicholas Cole Abbey

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NEARBY STREETS

Addle Hill, EC4V Addle Hill, formerly Addle Street, originally ran from Upper Thames Street from Carter Lane. (City of London)

Addle Hill, EC4V

Apothecary Street, EC4V Apothecary Street leads to Apothecaries’ Hall (City of London)

Apothecary Street, EC4V

Ashentree Court, EC4Y Ashentree Court was named after the ashen trees formerly located here at the Whitefriars’ monastery (City of London)

Ashentree Court, EC4Y

Baynard House, EC4V Baynard House is a block on Queen Victoria Street (City of London)

Baynard House, EC4V

Bell Yard, EC4V Bell Yard served the Bell Inn in Carter Lane - documented from 1424 until 1708. (City of London)

Bell Yard, EC4V

Black Friars Lane, EC4V Black Friars Lane was known as Water Lane until 1940 (City of London)

Black Friars Lane, EC4V

Blackfriars Bridge, EC4V Blackfriars Bridge serves as a road and pedestrian bridge spanning the River Thames (City of London)

Blackfriars Bridge, EC4V

Blackfriars House, EC4V Blackfriars House is a block on New Bridge Street (City of London)

Blackfriars House, EC4V

Blackfriars Lane, EC4V Blackfriars Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Blackfriars Lane, EC4V

Bouverie Street, EC4Y Bouverie Street is named for the Pleydell-Bouveries, Earls of Radnor, who were landowners in this area (City of London)

Bouverie Street, EC4Y

Bracken House, EC4M Bracken House is a block on Friday Street (City of London)

Bracken House, EC4M

Brick Court, EC4Y Brick Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area (City of London)

Brick Court, EC4Y

Bridewell Place, EC4V Bridewell Place is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Bridewell Place, EC4V

Bridge Walk, EC4V Bridge Walk is a road in the SE8 postcode area (River Thames)

Bridge Walk, EC4V

Broken Wharf House, EC4V Broken Wharf House is a block on Broken Wharf (City of London)

Broken Wharf House, EC4V

Broken Wharf, EC4V Broken Wharf is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Broken Wharf, EC4V

Burgon Street, EC4V Burgon Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Burgon Street, EC4V

Carmelite House, EC4Y Carmelite House is sited on Victoria Embankment (City of London)

Carmelite House, EC4Y

Carmelite Street, EC4Y Carmelite Street continues south from Whitefriars Street, which itself is just off Fleet Street (City of London)

Carmelite Street, EC4Y

Carter Lane, EC4V Carter Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Carter Lane, EC4V

Carter Lane, EC4V Knightrider Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Carter Lane, EC4V

Church Entry, EC4V Church Entry is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Church Entry, EC4V

Cobham House, EC4V Cobham House is a block on Black Friars Lane (City of London)

Cobham House, EC4V

Creed Lane, EC4V Creed Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Creed Lane, EC4V

Deans Court, EC4V Deans Court is directly opposite the south west corner of St Paul’s Cathedral, on the south side of St Paul’s Churchyard (City of London)

Deans Court, EC4V

Distaff Lane, EC4V Distaff Lane is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Distaff Lane, EC4V

Doctor Johnsons Buildings, EC4Y Doctor Johnsons Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area (City of London)

Doctor Johnsons Buildings, EC4Y

Dorset Rise, EC4Y Dorset Rise is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area (City of London)

Dorset Rise, EC4Y

Faraday Building, EC4V Faraday Building is a building on New Bell Yard (City of London)

Faraday Building, EC4V

Farringdon Road, EC4V Farringdon Road is a road in the EC4A postcode area (City of London)

Farringdon Road, EC4V

Fleetbank House, EC4Y Fleetbank House is located on Salisbury Square (City of London)

Fleetbank House, EC4Y

Genesis House, EC4V Genesis House is a building on Godliman Street (City of London)

Genesis House, EC4V

Godliman Street, EC4M Godliman Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Godliman Street, EC4M

Harcourt Buildings, EC4Y Harcourt Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area (City of London)

Harcourt Buildings, EC4Y

Ireland Yard, EC4V Ireland Yard is an alleyway leading off of Playhouse Yard (City of London)

Ireland Yard, EC4V

John Carpenter House, EC4Y John Carpenter House is a block on John Carpenter Street (City of London)

John Carpenter House, EC4Y

John Carpenter Street, EC4Y John Carpenter was town clerk of the City of London in the fifteenth century, and founder of the City of London School (City of London)

John Carpenter Street, EC4Y

Kildare House, EC4Y Kildare House can be found on Dorset Rise (City of London)

Kildare House, EC4Y

Knightrider Street, EC4V Knightrider Street was supposedly a route that knights would take from the Tower of London to Smithfield, where jousts were held (City of London)

Knightrider Street, EC4V

Lambeth Hill, EC4V Lambeth Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Lambeth Hill, EC4V

Magpie Alley, EC4Y Magpie Alley marks the position occupied by the dorter (dormitory) of the Friary of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel, commonly called the Whitefriars Monastery (City of London)

Magpie Alley, EC4Y

Millennium Bridge House, EC4V Millennium Bridge House is a block on High Timber Street (City of London)

Millennium Bridge House, EC4V

Mintel House, EC4V Mintel House can be found on Playhouse Yard (City of London)

Mintel House, EC4V

New Bell Yard, EC4V New Bell Yard is a modern development (City of London)

New Bell Yard, EC4V

New Bridge Street House, EC4V New Bridge Street House is a building on New Bridge Street (City of London)

New Bridge Street House, EC4V

New Bridge Street, EC4V New Bridge Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

New Bridge Street, EC4V

New Change, EC4M New Change is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area (City of London)

New Change, EC4M

New Court, EC4V New Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area (City of London)

New Court, EC4V

Old Change Court, EC4V Old Change Court is one of the streets of London in the EC4M postal area (City of London)

Old Change Court, EC4V

Old Change House, EC4V Old Change House is a block on Queen Victoria Street (City of London)

Old Change House, EC4V

Paul’s Walk, EC4V Paul’s Walk runs along the north bank of the Thames (City of London)

Paul’s Walk, EC4V

Peter’s Hill, EC4V Peter’s Hill is the northern access to the Millennium Bridge (City of London)

Peter’s Hill, EC4V

Playhouse Yard, EC4V Playhouse Yard is named after the Blackfriars theatre which stood here in Shakespeare’s time and where his play’s were performed (City of London)

Playhouse Yard, EC4V

Plowden Buildings, EC4Y Plowden Buildings is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area (City of London)

Plowden Buildings, EC4Y

Printing House Square, EC4V Printing House Square - formerly part of Blackfriars Monastery - became a printing district in the 17th century (City of London)

Printing House Square, EC4V

Puddle Dock, EC4V Puddle Dock is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Puddle Dock, EC4V

Queen Victoria Street, EC4V Queen Victoria Street was built in 1861 to provide a more efficient approach to London’s central business district (City of London)

Queen Victoria Street, EC4V

Salisbury Square, EC4Y Salisbury Square is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area (City of London)

Salisbury Square, EC4Y

Sir John Lyon House, EC4V Sir John Lyon House can be found on High Timber Street (City of London)

Sir John Lyon House, EC4V

Southwark Bridge, EC4V Southwark Bridge is one of the streets of London in the SE1 postal area (River Thames)

Southwark Bridge, EC4V

St Andrew’s House, EC4V St Andrew’s House is a block on St Andrew’s Hill (City of London)

St Andrew’s House, EC4V

St Andrews Hill, EC4V St Andrews Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

St Andrews Hill, EC4V

St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4M By the beginning of the sixteenth century, St. Paul’s Churchyard was the chief centre of the book trade, not only for London, but for the whole country. (City of London)

St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4M

Tallis House, EC4Y Tallis House is a block on Tallis Street (City of London)

Tallis House, EC4Y

Tallis Street, EC4Y This street honours Thomas Tallis, composer whose name is engraved on the façade of the nearby former building of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (City of London)

Tallis Street, EC4Y

Temple Avenue, EC4Y Temple Avenue is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area (City of London)

Temple Avenue, EC4Y

Temple House, EC4Y Temple House is a block on Temple Avenue (City of London)

Temple House, EC4Y

Three Barrels Walk, EC4V Three Barrels Walk is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Three Barrels Walk, EC4V

Trig Lane, EC4V A street within the EC4V postcode (City of London)

Trig Lane, EC4V

Tudor Street, EC4Y Tudor Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area (City of London)

Tudor Street, EC4Y

Unilever House, EC4Y Unilever House is a block on Victoria Embankment (City of London)

Unilever House, EC4Y

Upper Thames Street, EC4V Upper Thames Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Upper Thames Street, EC4V

Victoria Embankment, EC4Y Victoria Embankment is part of the Thames Embankment scheme of 19th-century civil engineering that reclaimed land next to the River Thames (City of London)

Victoria Embankment, EC4Y

Wardrobe Place, EC4V Wardrobe Place is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

Wardrobe Place, EC4V

Watergate, EC4Y Watergate is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area (City of London)

Watergate, EC4Y

White Lion Hill, EC4V White Lion Hill is one of the streets of London in the EC4V postal area (City of London)

White Lion Hill, EC4V

Whitefriars Street, EC4Y Whitefriars Street is one of the streets of London in the EC4Y postal area (City of London)

Whitefriars Street, EC4Y

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Postal area SE1 TUM image id: 1483541461 Licence:	Smithfield Market TUM image id: 1620388545 Licence:	"Cheapside and Bow Church" engraved by W. Albutt (1837) First published in The History of London: Illustrated by Views in London and Westminster. Steel engraved print after a picture by T.H. Shepherd. Credit: W. Albutt TUM image id: 1507465321 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The old wooden Temple Bar Credit: Walter Thornbury TUM image id: 1523115955 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Hopton’s Almshouses, Hopton Street, Bankside (1957) TUM image id: 1470953421 Licence:
Tate Modern viewed from Thames pleasure boat (2003) Credit: Christine Matthews TUM image id: 1557161613 Licence:	The Southwark Street estate was opened in 1876. Originally there were 12 blocks, with 22 flats in each one. In the 1960s two blocks in the centre of the estate were demolished as part of a modernisation programme, which created a space for the construction of a children’s play area. In the 1990s a block near the estate boundary was pulled down, and some adjoining land was purchased. This enabled the building of new blocks with a frontage to Great Guildford Street, which include some shop units. TUM image id: 1657027225 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Middle Temple Lane looking towards Victoria Embankment (2008) The buildings are mainly occupied by barristers’ chambers Credit: Wiki Commons/J D Mack TUM image id: 1660223325 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Castle on Cowcross Street, EC1 is the only pub in England that, alongside its pub sign, is permitted to display the three balls of a pawnbroker. Credit: Wiki Commons/oxyman TUM image id: 1653994847 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Illustration of Fleet Market Credit: William Henry Prior TUM image id: 1530111646 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Coach & Horses stood at 71 Bartholomew Close, Smithfield from 1799 until the Second World War. Credit: Guildhall Library TUM image id: 1671490114 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Anchor, Bankside Credit: IG/meolafrancesco TUM image id: 1653841490 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Ring, Blackfriars Road, SE1 (1925) Although established as a boxing venue in 1910, the building dated from 1783 as the Surrey Congregational Chapel by the Reverend Rowland Hill - who reportedly opted for the unusual, circular design so that there would be no corners in which the devil could hide. The person responsible for overseeing the chapel’s conversion was Dick Burge, a former English middleweight champion from Cheltenham. The former place of worship was then a warehouse. Dick and his wife Bella Burge enlisted the help of local homeless people to clean out the building and transform it into a state fit for presenting boxing to the public. The Ring opened on 14 May 1910, with the Blackfriars arena soon staging events four to five times a week, and the name from the circular shape of the building. The term "boxing ring" is not derived from the name of the building, contrary to local legend, but - still from the capital - instead from the London Prize Ring Rules in 1743, which specified a small circle in the centre of the fight area where the boxers met at the start of each round. The term ’ringside seat’ dates from the 1860s. TUM image id: 1509724629 Licence:	Panorama of the Cripplegate bombsite looking north-northeast after the clearance of unsafe buildings (1942) The derelict structure in the centre is the Jewin Crescent ruin, which survived until final clearance of the site in 1961. The view would now be within Thomas More Gardens. Credit: London Metropolitan Archives TUM image id: 1726664280 Licence:	Amen Court, EC4M TUM image id: 1493474208 Licence: CC BY 2.0