Place Name Surprisingly not a directional description but named after a man called West who held a considerable amount of…
Place Name Previously called Neptune Street after the Roman sea god. This road leads to Wellclose Square, which was so-called…
Place Name Leading to Wapping Dock Stairs which go down to the River Thames. For many years it was believed…
Place Name After the colony which later became the ninth US state. The first expedition to the colony of Virginia…
Place Name An all too rare reference to the ordinary men who were employed at the docks to load and…
Place Name Commemorating the school established by Nicholas Gibson, Prime Warden of the Grocers’ Company 1536 – 1537 and Sheriff…
Place Name Named in honour of local brewer and devout churchgoer Henry Raine (1679 – 1738) who in 1719 used…
Place Name One of a small cluster of streets commemorating the Leman family and their spouses. This is most likely…
Place Name In the 14thCentury this was home to hermit Friar John Ingram, an anchorite or religious recluse, who lived…
Place Name Remembering Dr Nathaniel Heckford (1842 – 1871), a Victorian paediatrician who founded the East London Hospital for Children…