Skimmer's Alley

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

East out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, 1720 and 1755).


In the text he calls it" Skinners Alley " (ed. 1720, I. ii. 27).

Former name: "Scummer Alley" (O. and M. 1677).

Derivation of name: There was a messuage and garden called the "Scomer" in Hundesdich, 34, H. VI. 1456 (Lond. Inq. p.m. 17, H. VII. No. 44, I.18), which may have given its name to the alley.

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