Place Name The main route leading from Acton to Gunnersbury. Gunnersbury has its roots in an old Scandinavian name. It…
Place Name Part of the North Circular. Gunnersbury Avenue has its roots in an old Scandinavian name. It is believed to…
Place Name The adjacent St Helen’s Church, Bishopsgate is all that remains of the former priory that stood nearby. The…
Place Name Originally Back Brook Street, it became Davies Mews sometime before 1792. Mary Davies (also spelt Davis) (January 1665…
Place Name Mary Davies (also spelt Davis) (January 1665 – 1730) was only-child of Alexander Davies, the great-nephew of Hugh…
Place Name Previously the site of Falcon Court. Charles Dickens wrote extensively about the notorious Marshalsea debtors’ prison where his…
Place Name Ironic name since Little Dorrit Court not far away is far larger. Charles Dickens wrote extensively about the notorious…
Place Name Elizabeth Fry (May 21, 1780 – October 21 1845), was a prison reformer, Quaker and philanthropist. She was born…
Place Name This was being laid out across Hackney Marsh at the turn of the 20thCentury linking Stratford with Hackney…
Place Name Named after members of the the Pritchard family. Andrew Pritchard, a “tilemaker of Hackney Road”, who in 1789…