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There isĪ view of the old Row in Faithorne's ichnographicalĭelineation of London in the reign of Charles I. Rising streets in the world." The obstructive buildings were at last made an end of in 1868.

Were taken down there would be from HolbornĬonduit to St. To Holborn, in point of prospect, which if they Row of small houses, which is a mighty hindrance Says:-"Southward of Gray's Inn Lane there is a In his "Perlustration of London," 1657 (p. For at least a couple ofĬenturies it was considered an obstruction. Stood half blocking up the street at the south end The Middle Row, Holborn, has disappeared, These tolls were levied at the six bars, including Holborn Bars. Received a penny and two-penny toll from theĬarts and carriages of non-freemen entering theĬity. Now shown by two granite obelisks bearing theĬity arms. "Holborn Bars" used to stand a little west ofīrooke Street. Which graced both its north and south sides.īesides, it contained an hospital for the poor, andĪ cell to the house of Clugny in France, suppressed Who resided here, but because of the Inns of Court, Not only on account of the many eminent people Holborn was anciently of much consequence, Thereof, named the Cock, to the Swan Inn, on the Line from a certain timber-house on the north side Lawful for the Mayor, &c., to make it run in a bevil Therefore necessary to be enlarged: that it may be Narrow, incommodious for the many passengersĭaily using and frequenting the same, and it is

The passage to Holborn Bridge is too strait and Place, or oblong square." In the additional Actįor rebuilding London, 1670, it was enacted "that Writing in 1803, "is an irregular long street, narrowĪnd inconvenient at the north end of Fleet Market,īut widening from Shoe Lane, up the hill, westward thence to Middle Row, or the south end of "Londinium Redivivum." "Holborn," he says, Holborn in the beginning of this century isĭescribed by Malcolm, the careful compiler of Part of that space was a rural region belonging to With trees and shrubs and long before Agas's day Shoe Lane to Chancery Lane was then gardens Represents Holborn as a very different sort of a That lie betwixt it and the river of Thames, remainįull of springs, so that water is there found at hand,Īgas's map of London, in the time of Elizabeth, Thereof, together with all the grounds adjoining, Here called High Oldborne Hill, and both the sides The head, and in other places where the same hathīroken out, but yet till this day the said street is This bourn was likewise long since stopped up at It ran down the whole street till Oldborne Bridge,Īnd into the river of the Wells or Turnemill Brook. This locality:-"Old borne or Hilborne, breaking outĪbout the place where now the Bars do stand, and There was of old a stone bridge over the Fleet,Ĭalled "Oldbourne Bridge." Stow thus describes In Holborn, at what is now Farringdon Street, That many perils and hazards were thereby occasioned, as well to the king's carriages passing that Holborn was its being paved, in 1417, at theĮxpense of Henry V., when the highway, we learnįrom Rymer's "Fœdera," "was so deep and miry One of the first great improvements effected in Viaduct to Holborn Bars, and High Holborn from Improvements, Holborn extends from Holborn Holborn Hill from Fetter Lane to Brooke StreetĪs Holborn, and from Brooke Street to Drury LaneĪs High Holborn. From Farringdon Street to Fetter Lane used to be known as Leaving the gates of Ely Place we turn westwards, and pursue our way along the main Herbalist, and his Garden-The Flying Pieman of Holborn Hill-An old Bellman of Holborn. Lotteries: Their History and Romance-Praying for Luck-A £20,000 Prize-Lucky Numbers-George A. Birkbeck and Mechanics' Institutions-An Extraordinary Well-Fulwood's Rents-Ned Ward and the "London Spy"-Selling a Horse-Dr. Southampton Buildings-Flying for Dear Life-Jacob's Coffee House-Ridiculous Enactments-Dr. Statue to the late Prince Consort-The "Rose" Tavern-Union Court-Bartlett's Buildings-Dyers' Buildings-A Famous Pastry-cook-Ĭastle Street-A Strange Ceremony-Cursitor Street-Lord Chancellor Eldon-A Runaway Match-Southampton House-An old Temple The Way to Tyburn-A Sweet Youth in the Cart-Clever Tom Clinch-Riding up Heavy Hill-The Hanging School-Cruel Whippings. The Divisions of Holborn-A Miry Thoroughfare-Oldbourne Bridge-In the Beginning of the Century-Holborn Bars-The Middle Row-On