Lawrence Lane is a street in the
City of London
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that runs from
Trump Street
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in the south to
Gresham Street
Gresham Street in the City of London is named after the English merchant and financier Thomas Gresham.
It runs from the junction of Lothbury and Moorgate at its eastern end, to St. Martin's Le Grand in the west. Gresham Street was created ...
in the north. Its final section in the north is pedestrianised. An alley also joins it to
King Street in the north. It once ran south to join
Cheapside
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but that end was blocked following post-Second World War rebuilding. It was known as St Lawrence Lane from the 13th to the 18th centuries due to its proximity to the church of
St Lawrence Jewry
St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall is a Church of England guild church in the City of London on Gresham Street, next to Guildhall. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, and rebuilt to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren. It is the ...
and until King Street was built was the main route from Cheapside to the London
Guildhall
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.
[
During ]the London Pageant of 1621
The London Pageant of 1621 including Thomas Middleton's ''The Sun in Aries'' followed the inauguration of Edward Barkham as Lord Mayor of London on 29 October 1621.
Edward Barkham was sworn into the office of Lord Mayor on 29 October 1621 at the ...
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
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.
A tavern known as Blossom's Inn
Blossom's Inn was a tavern which stood in Lawrence Lane in the City of London from the 14th century until 1855. It became a substantial coaching inn and was used as a staging post by carriers of goods. In the 19th century, the lease was bough ...
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.Pickfords
Pickfords is a moving company based in the United Kingdom, part of Pickfords Move Management Ltd.
The business is believed to have been founded in the 17th century, making it one of the UK's oldest functioning companies, although the similar ...
removal firm. Archaeological excavations on the site in 2001 recovered Roman remains.["Lawrence Lane"]
in 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.[Multiple Ordnance Survey maps, Digimap. Retrieved 6 January 2017. ]
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Streets in the City of London
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