Seven Step Alley

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

At 39 New Street, Gravel Lane, Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (P.O. Directory).


Earliest mention: O. and M. 1677. In its original state the street was more extensive than at present and had a passage east to Middlesex Street (Petticoat Lane), occupying part of the sites of the present Ellison Street, Hutchison Street, Hutchison Avenue and Providence Place. The passage into Middlesex Street was called "Bates' Yard" (Strype, 1720 and 1755).

The whole neighbourhood has been altered and rebuilt for the extension of the Metropolitan Railway lines, etc.

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