Great Tower Street, originally known just as Tower Street, forms an eastern continuation of Eastcheap.
On Byward Street, opposite Great Tower Street, the historic church All Hallows-by-the-Tower can be found.
Tower Street was first recorded in 1259, and that the name may derives from ’vicus Turris’ (street tower)
A public house called the Czar’s Head used to stand here - so named because Peter the Great used to drink there when he was learning shipbuilding at Deptford.
On Tower Street in 1688, Edward Lloyd opened Lloyd’s Coffee House, where the insurance market Lloyd’s of London originated.
Tower Street was part of the route for civic pageants and processions, specifically coronation processions.
