Pre-1700
"Although few buildings from Donne's time survive, most of the places associated with his name are within easy walking distance of one another. From Bread Street, where he was born, to Lincoln's Inn, where he studied law and later preached, takes little more than fifteen minutes. Even less time is necessary to walk from the Inns of Court to York House, at the bottom of Drury lane, in which he would serve as Egerton's secretary; and from here to St. Read more »
In 1603 Mary Brookes, a young London woman, was picked up by constables at the house of Agnes Allowin, a laundress and starcher who was also running a bawdy house in three rooms in Northumberland Alley, near Aldgate. Mary Brookes was taken to Bridewell, London’s house of correction on suspicion of sexual misconduct, where she confessed on another occasion that a captain had fetched her from her mother’s house and brought her to a house in the Strand, where he ‘had the use of her body’. Read more »
This postcard was sent to the Strandlines team by the reindeer in February 2011. Click on the image, then on the link 'Original', to see a larger version.
Shown at an art exhibition at The Connection at St Martins in November 2010. Click here to see more pictures from that exhibition.
Poem titled ‘King’s College School, Strand Days’ from the King’s College Review, 1917, p.63
King's College London Archives (Ref: K/SER1/63), December 1917, King’s College Review, Vol. 19-20 No.2, anonymous poem titled ‘King’s College School, Strand Days’.
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From The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St Paul’s to St James’s (1848) by James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859). The palace was burnt down in 1381, during the Peasants Revolt. It stands on the current site of the Savoy Hotel.
