With LuggageHero , you can drop off your bags at a wide range of local stores in the city. They apply both an hourly and a daily rate. Stasher operates in the same way. We recommend leaving your bags at Luggage Storage Goodge St. Tottenham Court Road is a busy tube station on Northern and Central lines , completely renovated recently. Tottenham Court Road is a famous shopping hub. The road is about one kilometer long and stretches between the edge of the City of Westminster and the London borough of Camden.
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We use our own and third-party cookies to collect data related to your activity on our site for analysis and to improve your experience. By continuing to use our site, you consent to the use of these cookies. Learn more. View on Map Gallery. Bedrooms: S 1 2 3. Properties in this development on 26 October Bedrooms. Floors: 6. Flats: Property Type Apartments. Chill out place. Evans was one of the Welsh dairy farmers who set up shop in London.
The inside of these corner shops are very similar, shelves packed high with tinned and packet goods. An enlargement of the view through the door shows a wonderful tiled picture of a field and cows, part of a set of scales can be seen to the right and the shop assistant is behind the counter. This was only 33 years ago, but this type of local shopping is now dominated by the big supermarket brands, and a small store like this could probably not afford the rent or business rates.
The tiled picture of fields and cows could have been the scene where Warren Street is located back in At the time when John Rocque complied his map of London, the city had not yet reached as far as Warren Street and the area was still mainly fields, with some limited building just north of the future junction of Tottenham Court Road and Euston Road. I have marked the approximate location of Warren Street with red lines, running across the full width of a field.
Warren Street was built between and The street is named after the daughter of Sir Peter Warren, Anne Warren the wife of Charles Fitzroy, the 1st Baron Southampton who was the owner and developer of the land on which Warren Street was built. The street runs parallel and a short distance to the south of the busy Euston Road.
Looking south down Conway Street from Warren Street and a mainly original street plan and buildings survive. In the above photo, the J. Evans corner shop can be seen on the right. Note the lighter bricks on the second and third floors. The difference in bricks is due to a mid 20th century re-build of the top two floors. Evans shop. The following photo dates from A couple of large adverts are on the Warren Street facing wall. Also note that just along Warren Street were some other shops.
Difficult to see exactly what they are selling, but they look to be typical of the shops serving the day to day needs of local residents that were once found all across London. Today, these shops have been converted to a couple of private clinics. The buildings in which these other shops were located have what appears to be a secret entrance to a different place — this is the entrance to Warren Mews.
Warren Mews is a short street, even quieter than Warren Street, although I dread to think how much the houses that line the mews cost. After having found the old shop frount, I walked back down Warren Street towards Tottenham Court Road, viewing an interesting series of buildings as I walked. I do get depressed when walking the streets of London looking at the loss of one off shops, specialist shops and businesses, however in Warren Street I found a survivor.
The business was founded in High Holborn by Giovanni Tiranti in The business relocated to a number of different locations over the years, and whilst the main business is now located in Thatcham, Berkshire, Tiranti still retain a London premises.
Tiranti has a fascinating history. At the junction of Warren Street and Fitzroy Street is a large corner store, currently occupied by the Loft furniture business as their London showroom. A few years ago I photographed the original entrance sign for Samuel French. It is remarkable how quickly places change. Used car dealing was a specialty of Warren Street for much of the first half of the 20th century with car dealers occupying many of the buildings and also second-hand cars for sale lining the street.
The business on the corner with Fitzroy Street must have been one of the last in operation on the street. The car dealing business in Warren Street attracted a number of dubious characters, one of whom was Stanley Setty, a car dealer who operated outside a cafe on the corner of Warren Street and Fitzroy Street on the opposite side to the above photo.
Setty dealt in cash only and was always in possession of large amounts of cash. He had an associate in Brian Donald Hume who dealt in black market goods. In , after an argument and a fight, Setty was murdered by Hume, who disposed of his body parts over the Essex Coast from a hired plane. Hume was found not guilty of the murder, only the lesser offence of being an accessory to the murder by disposing of the body. After his release from prison he was happy to report to the press that he had carried out the murder — the defence of double-jeopardy protecting him from a new trial.
Captain Matthew Flinders was instrumental in identifying Australia as a continent, by being the first western explorer to circumnavigate the land, which he would also play a part in naming. Captain Matthew Flinders source here. Work on the buildings over the years shown by the different brick colours. It is a station I have used many times and during the early morning peak hours the automatic ticket gates are usually left open to speed passengers through from the escalators to the street.
Evans — Dairy Farmer, the shop that was the reason for my walk along Warren Street. The problem I find with this blog is that there is so much to discover and learn, each post really needs much more investigation than I currently have the time to do. My father took the following photo of a milestone in Highgate in It is just south of the Flask pub along Highgate West Hill. For a view of the Flask and Highgate in see my post here. The milestone is still there.
See my following photo of the milestone today. Nothing special you might think, but compare the mileage, five in and four today and the destination is a location that does not now exist in London, Saint Giles Pound.
Saint Giles refers to the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, the parish that took in the area around the church of the same name, just a short distance south-east from the junction of Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road. In my usual London reference books I have found a number of references to the Saint Giles Pound which was a fenced area to hold sheep and cattle etc.
The exact site of the Pound was the broad space where St. Noticed for the profligacy of its inhabitants, the vicinity of this spot became proverbial: witness the couplet of an old song. Meux and Co. The Cage appears to have been used as a prison, not merely of a temporary kind, but judging from the parish records, with little lenity. Giles Pound, a real pound for cattle, which is marked upon the old plans, was a prominent object, standing in the village of St.
Giles at the intersection of the roads from Hampstead and from Oxford. Giles Pound have long since vanished; and the milestones which record their glory ought also to be swept away. The two photos of the milestones also have different distances, five in and four in The only reference I can find to this change is that it was made by a local resident of Highgate who was frustrated with the error.
So is four miles correct? Although I have walked the route, I have not measured, so a quick check on Google maps, from Highgate West Hill at roughly the position of the milestone, to a point on New Oxford Street a very short distance past the end of Tottenham Court Road to allow for the possible siting of the Pound more towards St. Giles High Street. The following map confirms the distance as being exactly four miles the blue dots.
Even with some longer alternative routes, the distance does not reach five miles. It would be interesting to know if the error in distance was from when the milestone was originally installed, or perhaps when the figures may have been re-cut as they do look very sharp in the photo with very little deterioration to the edge of the lettering. The key point is that today, the distance is correct. Intriguingly, the Pound may be marked on a map. This is 19 years before the Pound was removed. There is a rectangular feature in the open area of the junction — could this be the Pound?
The location fits perfectly the description given by Rowland Dobie in his book, quoted earlier. Strange to think that this very busy junction, with the new Crossrail station being built, was once the location of a Pound, holding animals being brought down from the north. The map extract is from the very lower right hand corner of the page. This is Denmark Street featured in my post of a couple of weeks ago. The map has some other references that point to the original use of this area.
In the above map, the road running south from the junction is Hog Lane. The alley leading off from the top right of Hog Lane is Farmers Alley. Hog Lane is now the northern section of Charing Cross Road. Cunnigham :. So after the Pound had disappeared, there was no longer an association with animals so the name changed, with finally as so often happens in London, the street being integrated in the lengthening and widening of a main street.
Is there more information on the Pound, and is the original location marked on any maps? Are there any more of the milestones? What was the purpose of the Pound? Was it used as a stopping off point before heading into the City or did it serve the local area? London has always had areas which attracted specific types of trade, shops and industry, a number of which clustered around Tottenham Court Road underground station. To the south, along Charing Cross Road was Foyles and a range of second hand bookshops some of which remain, along with Foyles in their new location.
To the north, along Tottenham Court Road was to be found a large number of electronics shops. It was here that I bought my first calculator whilst still at school in , a Decimo Vatman, so called because as well as the normal addition, subtraction, multiplication and division keys, it also had a revolutionary for the time , percentage key. When I last walked along Tottenham Court Road, nearly all of these electronics shops have now disappeared. The Paolozzi mosaics at Tottenham Court Road underground station featured designs including cameras, electronics, music shops and saxophones to reflect the area around the station.
Walk a short distance south along Charing Cross Road and you will find Denmark Street, a street that has been the hub of the music industry for many decades. I walked to Denmark Street early on a very sunny morning — not always the best for photography with the contrast between light and dark.
Looking back up towards the large building site at the top of Charing Cross Road, an indication of what is happening to the area:. Looking down Denmark Street from Charing Cross Road, a mix of architectural styles, with at the end of the street, a sign of things to come with the standard new build that can now be found anywhere across London.
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