From GUILDHALL to ST.PAUL’s and on to BLACKFRIARS
Gresham St.
Medieval Jewish London
Archaeologists discovered a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath, from the mid-13th century, under a modern building in Milk Street in 2001. It has been reconstructed at the Jewish Museum in Camden Town. Milk Street may be derived from the Hebrew word ‘melech’, meaning ‘king’
Old Jewry (street)
Site of the MEDIEVAL SYNAGOGUE
Frederick Place
MERCERS’ HALL
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
EDWIN WATERHOUSE
Torch snuffers
Poultry (street)
Former MIDLAND BANK HQ, now THE NED, hotel, eateries, club
Cheapside (street)
Birthplace of THOMAS BECKET, Archbishop and Martyr
ST.MARY-LE-BOW Church
MEMORIAL to JOHN SMITH
Watling St.
Friday St.
Site of THE MERMAID TAVERN
ONE NEW CHANGE. Arch. JEAN NOUVEL
Memorial to ADMIRAL PHILIP, founder of Sidney, Australia
Church belltower
ST.PAUL’s
W.S.’s ST.PAUL’S
Nearby
Paternoster Row and Sq.
Site of the centre of the publishing trade
STATIONERS’ HALL
Stationers' Hall in London holds immense historical significance for Shakespeare's works, primarily as the site where the Stationers' Register was kept. This trade guild's register recorded the rights to publish plays and poems
Carter Lane
Memorial to PAUL’S WATCH
THE COLLEGE OF ARMS
Driven by the playwright's success, Shakespeare applied for gentry status on behave of his father, John Shakespeare, who was granted a coat of arms in 1596. “Non, sanz droict” or “Non sanz droit”
Site of THE BELL INN
Richard Quiney wrote the only surviving original letter addressed to William Shakespeare from The Bell Inn, Carter Lane, in London on October 25, 1598
https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/blogs/quiney-letter-25th-october-1598/
The Blackfriars district
Site of the KING’S WARDROBE
As the head of the King's Men (formerly the Lord Chamberlain's Men), Shakespeare and his fellow actors were directly provided with red cloth for ceremonial royal liveries by the Master of the Great Wardrobe in 1604.
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