Bethnal Green: Old Nichol Street
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Bethnal Green: Old Nichol Street
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton Taken: 3 Feb 2010
Looking east. The photographer stands in Boundary Street, with the Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch behind him, and that of Bethnal Green in front. When the notorious Old Nichol rookery was cleared in the 1890s, the whole street pattern and names of the streets were changed, with only two or three streets on the edge retaining their names. Old Nichol Street and Boundary Street are two of these, although the former used to have the possessive, as Old Nichol's Street.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.524904
Longitude
-0.075888