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Bull and Mouth Street was a street in the
The street may once have been known as Stukeley's Street.http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=18688&inst_id=118&nv1=search&nv2=
The street is named after the Bull and Mouth Inn which stood on the south side from at least the time of the
British History Online. Retrieved 31 January 2018. It may date even earlier as the original name of the inn was the Boulogne Mouth, a reference to the siege of the town and harbour of Boulogne by the English kings Henry VII and
Bull and Mouth Street appears on
Stagecoach Travel
'. Oxford: Shire. p. 13. The street and the hotel and chapel were demolished in 1887 or 1888 to make way for new post office buildings at 1 St Martin's Le Grand, later
Bull and Mouth Street was a street in the City of London
The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London fr ...
that ran between Edward Street (Hall Lane) and St Martin's Le Grand
St. Martin's Le Grand is a former liberty within the City of London, and is the name of a street north of Newgate Street and Cheapside and south of Aldersgate Street. It forms the southernmost section of the A1 road.
College of canons and col ...
. On part of its site stands Postman's Park
Postman's Park is a public garden in central London, a short distance north of St Paul's Cathedral. Bordered by Little Britain, Aldersgate Street, St. Martin's Le Grand, King Edward Street, and the site of the former headquarters of the Gener ...
.
Origins
The street may once have been known as Stukeley's Street.http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=18688&inst_id=118&nv1=search&nv2=
The street is named after the Bull and Mouth Inn which stood on the south side from at least the time of the Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past the ...
in 1666 when it was destroyed. It was subsequently rebuilt.Brown's Yard, Angel Alley, Bishopsgate - Bull Court.British History Online. Retrieved 31 January 2018. It may date even earlier as the original name of the inn was the Boulogne Mouth, a reference to the siege of the town and harbour of Boulogne by the English kings Henry VII and
Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disa ...
in 1544–46. Over time, the name became corrupted into Bull and Mouth. The street was first recorded on John Ogilby
John Ogilby (also ''Ogelby'', ''Oglivie''; November 1600 – 4 September 1676) was a Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer. Best known for publishing the first British road atlas, he was also a successful translator, noted for publishi ...
and William Morgan's ''Large Scale Map of the City As Rebuilt By 1676''.
History
Bull and Mouth Street appears on Richard Horwood
Richard Horwood (1757/8 – 3 October 1803) was a surveyor and cartographer. He is mainly remembered for his large-scale plan of London and its suburbs published in 32 sheets between 1792 and 1799. He also published a plan of Liverpool in six she ...
's map of London published in 1813.Laxton, Paul & Joseph Wisdom. (1985) The A to Z of Regency London. London: London Topographical Society. p. 15. An 1875 Ordnance Survey map shows there to have been a ward school on the north side at the western end and the French Protestant Chapel (1842) at the eastern end on the corner with St Martin's Le Grand. On the south side was The Queen's Hotel on the corner with St Martin's Le Grand, formerly the Bull and Mouth Inn, rebuilt as a hotel by the coaching entrepreneur Edward Sherman at a cost of £60,000. The architect was Savage. The hotel provided accommodation for passengers and underground stabling for 700 horses.Allen, Louise. (2014) Stagecoach Travel
'. Oxford: Shire. p. 13. The street and the hotel and chapel were demolished in 1887 or 1888 to make way for new post office buildings at 1 St Martin's Le Grand, later
Nomura House Nomura (written: 野村 "field village" or 埜村 "wilderness village") is a Japanese surname.
Notable people with the surname include:
* Don Nomura (born 1957), Japanese-American baseball agent
* Katsuhiro Nomura, Japanese voice actor, includin ...
. Bull and Mouth Street was located approximately where Postman's Park is today.
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