Bishopsgate Street: 1872 Size:large slicing through the existing urban

slicing through the existing urban landscape

Section 22 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

A traditional fair has been held here at Easter for over 150 years

The section covers the area between Baring Street in the North West

crowded and noisy place: 'Countrymen

Bishopsgate Street: 1872 Size:large slicing through the existing urbanAn illustration of Bishopsgate Street from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. People can be seen gathered in the Sir Paul Pindar Stout House. The building had originally been built c. 1599 as a mansion for Sir Paul Pindar, a merchant and diplomat whose wealth in 1639 was estimated at 236,000. However he died in debt and by the 1780s the mansion had become a tavern. It was pulled down in 1890 and the carved oak front is