Place Name Remembering Dr Nathaniel Heckford (1842 – 1871), a Victorian paediatrician who founded the East London Hospital for Children…
Place Name Site of a former glassworks. The industry remained in the area until the 1960s. Glassworks tended to be…
Place Name Once the far more prosaically named Elm Row. The minor name change may have been something of a…
Place Name First recorded as Smethefeld in the 12thCentury when it was a large open area neighbouring Tower Hill, used…
Place Name Previously Denmark Street. The current name commemorates Augustus George Crowder, a member of the vestry of the Parish of St…
Place Name Previously called King Edward Street, the name commemorates haberdasher Thomas Clave from Wapping who left £50 to the parish…
Place Name From early on the City of London attracted talent from around the country, yet the Guilds set up…
Place Name Unsurprisingly there was brewery here. Pickard’s Brewery is named in John Lockie’s Topography of London published in 1810 but…
Place Name Named after Peter Bere, a local landowner, who came to wider attention when on July 23, 1794 a…
Place Name An old name possibly of Anglo-Saxon origin. A soke was a judicial area that granted certain rights and…