Brunswick Square is a public garden and area in Bloomsbury, in the modern borough of Camden (London, England). Most of the square was originally part of the grounds of the Foundling Hospital. The Foundling Hospital was founded in 1739 by the sea captain Thomas Coram and was a children's home and was moved to Bloomsbury in the 1740s. Brunswick Square and the neighbouring Mecklenburgh Square were leased for development in 1790. Bloomsbury became known for its association with culture, education, the arts, and medicine.
In London Labour and the London Poor edition:
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The Negro Crossing-Sweeper, who had lost both his Legs. (Volume 2): "I went to see him at his home early one morning—in fact, at half-past eight, but he was not then up. I went again at nine, and found him prepared for my visit in a little parlour, in a dirty and rather disreputable alley running out of a court in a street near Brunswick-square."
Old Sarah (Volume 3): "Many ladies as has known me since they was children allows me a trifle. One maiden lady near Brunswick-square has given me sixpence a week for many a year, and another allows me eighteenpence a fortnight; so that, one way and another, I am very comfortable, and I’ve much to be thankful for."