Place Name Previously called Ann’s Place, it is named after the Pritchard family. Andrew Pritchard, a “tilemaker of Hackney Road”…
Place Name Hows Street is named after William Arnold Hadden Hows, a pawnbroker who was one of Shoreditch’s first representatives…
Place Name One of the very many London streets commemorating the heroic victor at the Battle of Trafalgar. This was…
Place Name Named after the French seaport, La Rochelle, in the Bay of Biscay, which had close links to the Huguenot community.…
Place Name Commemorating the Reverend Canon Samuel Augustus Barnett (February 8, 1844 – June 17, 1913), who was canon at St Jude’s…
Place Name Named in honour of Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (April 21, 1814 – December 30, 1906), a…
Place Name Previously called Henrietta Street. It was renamed after antiquarian Henry Allgood, author of A History of Bethnal Green, From…
Place Name A reference to the nearby area of Shacklewell, which is thought to mean a well where animals were…
Place name Named after Michael Godfrey (February 22, 1658 – July 17, 1695), the first Deputy Governor of the Bank…
Place Name Named after Henry of Navarre (December 13, 1553 – May 14, 1610), later King Henry IV of France from…