Church Lane

See COVE Master Map entry on Church Lane: 

https://editions.covecollective.org/place/church-lane

In London Labour and the London Poor edition

Phase 1

A Visit to the Rookery of St. Giles and its Neighbourhood. (Volume 4): "Leaving George Street we passed on to Church Lane, a by-street in the rear of New Oxford Street, containing twenty-eight houses. It was dark as we passed along. We saw the street lamps lighted in Oxford Street, and the shop-windows brilliantly illumined, while the thunder of vehicles in the street broke on our ear, rolling in perpetual stream. Here a very curious scene presented itself to our view. From the windows of the three-storied houses in Church Lane were suspended wooden rods with clothes to dry across the narrow street,—cotton gowns, sheets, trousers, drawers, and vests, some ragged and patched, and others old and faded, giving a more picturesque aspect to the scene, which was enhanced by the dim lights in the windows, and the groups of the lower orders of all ages assembled below, clustered around the doorways, and in front of the houses, or indulging in merriment in the street."

Phase 2 

Statement of a Beggar. (Volume 1)

The Whistling Man. (Volume 3)

 

 

Layers

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.575316600000
Longitude: -0.262486400000