The City: banking on better weather (178)
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The City: banking on better weather (178)
Image: © Basher Eyre Taken: 11 Sep 2023
Looking from Copthall Avenue into Great Swan Alley [Great Swan Alley East out of Coleman Street, at No. 66, across Moorgate Street, at No. 39, to Little Swan Alley (P.O. Directory). Seems to be all called Great Swan Alley now. In Coleman Street Ward. First mention : Horwood, 1799. Former names : "Swan Alley," 19 Hen. VIII. 1528 (L. and P. H. VIII. Vol. IV. (Pt. 2), p. 1789). "Swanne Alley." 1566 (Lond. I. p.m. II. 46). "Swann Alley" (O. and M. 1677) in Henry A Harben, 'Great Prescott Street - Great Swan Alley', in A Dictionary of London (London, 1918)]
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