Lawrence Lane, London
During the London Pageant of 1621 an artificial mountain was built on the lane as the seat of Phoebus Apollo and the zodiac, to celebrate the inauguration of Edward Barkham as Lord Mayor of London.
A tavern known as Blossom's Inn once stood on the western side of the street on a large site on the corner with Trump Street from the fourteenth century until 1855. In the 1750s it became the London base for James Pickford, founder of the Pickfords removal firm. Archaeological excavations on the site in 2001 recovered Roman remains. The site became a parcels depot for the Great Eastern Railway in the nineteenth century before being renamed Blossom's Inn again in the twentieth century.
References
- ^ Caldwell, David. "What you need to know about Lawrence Lane in the city of The City". Street List. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ "Lawrence Lane" in Christopher Hibbert; Ben Weinreb; John Keay; Julia Keay (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (3rd ed.). London: Pan Macmillan. p. 476. ISBN 978-0-230-73878-2.
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 4 (London, 1828), p. 730.
- ^ "Blossom's Inn, Lawrence Lane - COLLAGE - The London Picture Archive". collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ Multiple Ordnance Survey maps, Digimap. Retrieved 6 January 2017. (subscription required)
External links
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