![]() ![]() Vast area renowned in the seventeenth century for Then called Southampton House, and subsequentlyīedford House, was removed early in the presentĬentury to make room for a new city which nowĬovers, with its squares, streets, and churches, a Verge of pastures and corn-fields, rose two celebrated Macaulay writes thus in his "History of England:"-"A little way north from Holborn, and on the Of this neighbourhood, about the year 1685, Kept up as a branch of the royal stables." Work on London, "as late as the middle of the lastĬentury it (the mews) would seem to have been still ![]() Steeds were removed to the stabling at CharingĬross, which was altered and enlarged for their Stables being burnt down, in 1537, the hawks and Village, the royal mews, an establishment for horsesĪnd also for hawks, stood here but on these The site of Bloomsbury Square and the surrounding The manor and village are said to have occupied Was originally called Lomsbury, or Lomesbury, and Gray's Inn Road and Tottenham Court Road. ![]() Is bounded to the east and west respectively by Stretching away as far as the Euston Road, and Of Bloomsbury lies on the north side of Holborn, The district now known under the general name Streets-Mudie's Library-Museum Street-Great Russell Street. ![]() Originally called "The Beggar's Bush"-A Dangerous Locality-Model Lodging Houses in Streatham Street-Bloomsbury and Duke Street-Bainbridge and Buckeridge Streets-The "Turk's Head"-Old Dyot Street-"Rat's Castle"-The "Hare and Hounds," The Locality a Century ago-A Pair of Eccentric Old Maids-The Field of Forty Footsteps-A Singular Superstition-Street Brawls and Roysterers-The Game of Base-Bloomsbury deserted by the Aristocracy-Albert Smith's Remarks on this once Patrician Quarter of London-The "Rookery," or "Holy Land"-Meux's Brewery-The "Horse-shoe" Tavern, New Oxford Street-The Royal Arcade-George The silent court and opening square explore,Īnd long perplexing lanes untrod before."- Gay's "Trivia." Where winding alleys lead the doubtful way: ![]()
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