This free content was digitised by double rekeying and sponsored by English Heritage. All rights reserved. This street existed under its modern name as early as when a survey of the Manor of Stepney mentions two tile garths on its eastern side. In Agas's map of c. Faithorne and New court's map, published in but probably surveyed in the 's, shows building on its east side approximately as far north as Hanbury Street. In Samuel Twinn, a bricklayer, built six houses, probably in the neighbourhood of Fashion Street, fn.
Part of the street between Truman, Hanbury, Buxton and Company's premises and the railway line was built up by John Stott, mariner, under a lease from Sir William Wheler, between and Building was proceeding on the east side in the late 's.
In May John Carter submitted a petition to the Privy Council, in which he asked for permission to continue building development in Haresmarsh, on the east side of Brick Lane, which he had partially built up in the previous year: this was probably between Carter's Rents and Buxton Street. The degree of development of Brick Lane in —82 is shown in Ogilby and Morgan's maps, which record more or less complete lines of building as far north as the vicinity of Fournier Street, and more irregular development beyond that.
An inhabitant of this side of the street, just south of Booth Street, in the mid's was Ralph Alexander, fn. An ephemeral project in the street in indicates its suburban character at that time. Henry Smith of Chancery Lane, joiner, was employed to erect the evidently all-wooden buildings. The work appears never to have been completed, Diggs accusing Smith of failing to fulfil his contract and Smith accusing Diggs of failing to pay his wages.
Gascoine's map of suggests that all the part of the street in Spitalfields was then built-up, except for small stretches on the east side of Joyce's Garden and the tenter ground. Rocque shows it all built-up except where the eastern end of the churchyard abutted on the street. Two years later, in , Commissioners were appointed with power to pave certain streets in Spitalfields and all of Brick Lane within and without the parish.
A substantial widening of Dirty Lane, to become Osborn Street, was carried out, but Horwood's map of suggests that any widening of Brick Lane in Spitalfields was inconsiderable.
Brick Lane Music Hall puts on music and dance shows, pantomimes, and the like. But it's 8km away from Brick Lane, residing, in fact, in Docklands. The venue first opened on the eponymous street in , in a stable in the Old Truman Brewery. A article in The Stage newspaper reported plans to move to a former button factory on Curtain Road, half a mile away.
In February , it was forced out of these premises due to rising rents, and relocated to St Mark's Church in Silvertown, its current premises. The best things to do in London. The must-read London articles. The coolest London events from our partners. By Laura Reynolds Last edited 58 months ago. Photo: Louis Berk 1. Why's it called Brick Lane? Report a problem with this article. X close. Londonist in your inbox Plan your day ahead or read the day's London headlines with our daily emails.
The sites of 2—38 Brick Lane were occupied by by small houses, most likely comparable to and contemporary with what was built to the west on the Fossan Estate in Spitalfields in the late s. Osborn Place was again renamed as the west end of Chicksand Street in Along the north side, a weaver, Abraham Fleury, had No.
At No. Poverty crept in. Two years later cholera deaths in the area were attributed to overcrowding, particularly among Jewish immigrants, and in a house further east in Chicksand Street was declared wholly unfit for habitation after the death of a cellar-dweller. In Robert Womersley, a Yorkshire Quaker and linen draper who had set up a dye house, took an Osborn lease of the property to set up as a drysalter for dying and other purposes in what was still then a textile district. From the family no longer lived at the chemical factory, which had extended southwards to Finch Street by the s.
In later years the works came to be wedged between a school and a hostel. There were new warehouses in and , but the firm moved away in the s. Chicksand Street and Finch Street were formed and humbly and irregularly built up with small two-storey dwellings in the first years of the nineteenth century. There was sugar refining on Finch Street by , George Brienlech setting up as a preparer of molasses and a cowkeeper.
By the s, there was a diamond cutter on Luntley Place. Much of the land was alienated from the Osborn Estate. Other nineteenth-century buildings, mostly two-storey dwellings, stood into the s. The Bell public house at 40 Brick Lane, returning on the north side of Chicksand Street, had moved here from its more southerly site around to make way for the road improvement that created Osborn Street. By they had been divided also to accommodate Henry Cox, a manufacturing chemist, and J.
Heckman, a skinner and furrier. East of these works, Abraham Davis built Helena Terrace, four pairs of back-to-back tenements, in — As further south, this whole area became poorer and predominantly Jewish by the s. There were many tailors, also fur dressers and shoemakers. Abraham Davis put up an open-sided fish-market hall on the east side of Hope Street in —2, along with a row of eight lock-up stores to its south, all with gable fronts.
Leonard Williams was the architect. In the market was reappropriated to be a Poultry Shechita, or kosher slaughtering yard, a business that dominated both sides of Hope from Monthorpe Street into the post-war period, and drew curious children as spectators. Further west there were miscellaneous factories behind tenements on Finch Street. Survey of London , vol.
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