Petticoat Lane is a market in Spitalfields, in the East End of London in the modern borough of Tower Hamlets. By 1608, it was a commercial district for the selling of second-hand clothing. It later became a centre for master weavers and clothing dyeing due to the settling of Huguenot refugees in the late 17th century.
HM Prison Pentonville is a prison in Barnsbury, in the modern borough of Islington (London, England). The prison was opened in 1842 and its design used as a model for prisons in Britain and the British Empire. The prison is still used to this day.
Pentonville is an area in the modern borough of Islington (London, England).
In London Labour and the London Poor:
Of the Street Sellers of Live Birds. (Volume 2): "About one-half of those birds die after having been caged a few days. The other evening a bird-catcher supplied 26 fine linnets to a shopkeeper in Pentonville, and next morning ten were dead."
The Pelican Stairs is an alleyway in London leading to the River Thames. It is located in Wapping, in the modern borough of Tower Hamlets (London, England).
