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gested that one was crooked, and was
known for this singularity as the
crooked usage" a name that descend
ed to street and is still preserved. AS
already stated, many homely designa,
tons linger. A Cut Throat Lane sun
lends it slerror to Camberwell, Double
X. Place may be found in Bethnal
Green, Halfpenny Alley, recalling an
old "halfpenny hatch" or toilgate, sur
wives" in Bermondsey. Jacobs Well
Passage, Noahs Ark Alley, Selah
Place, Zoda street, Adam and Eve
lane, and other Biblical names proba-
bly, date from Puritan times. Among
other queer survivals are Labor in VAN
street in Shadwell, Periwinkle street in
Ratclff. Lilly Pot lane in the city, and
Sea Witch lane in Greenwich.
The subject is vast, and one does
but pick up it's pebbles. Thus the per-
sonal names given to many London
precincts have a charm of their own
as looks Court, Baldwin's Gardens,
Fulwood's Rents. Who were Took,
Baldwin and Fulwood? Who was the
Mr.. Ball of Balls Pond Road and Fou-
bert of Foubert's Place in Regent
street?
These questions will be asked for
many a year, and fortunately most of
them can be answered. looks Court,
near Chancery Lane, has been vari-
ously called fuckers, Dukes, Ducks
and Tukes Court, so that conjecture
can but play gingerly round the Mr..
Thomas Tuck, whose local charities are
recorded in the parish church of st.
Andrews. Holborn. Baldwins Gardens,
in the Gray's Inn Road, are said TO
bark back to Richard Baldwin, one of
Queen Elizabeth's gardeners, who built
some houses here in 1883. Fulwood's
Rents, that curious old precinct which
lifts it's sagging red-tiled roofs above
the Chancery Lane Station of the Tube
Railway, is a genuine bit of seven
teenth century London. 1t was so call
ed from Christopher Fulwood, whose
sister, Jane Fulwood, died here in pow
erty as early as 1913. Lord Bacon may
have known these houses. AS for Foul
bert's place, it celebrates Mai. Foubert,
whose fashionable riding school had the
support of Charles H., and was deem
ed highly advantageous to the young
officers Of the Restoration. Major
Foubert's Passage" was the name when
the poet Rogers was young, and he
wished this full style had been retain
ed. Lambs Conduit Street is named
after one William Lamb, who more
than 300 years ago built a water con-
duit at Holborn Cross at cost of G1,-
500.
FOR the Wan VINO "AnOWs MS Lon
dom"
In all these cases the personal name
borne by each place seems to have
sprung up naturally or to have been
bestowed by common consent, and the
result is that the memories of these
worthless are kept peculiarly green.
Only last year lively discussion arose
on the personalities of Took and Bo-
he nf
noblemen are often hardly kept alive
in the street names they proudly estab-
hshed. Who knows which Cecil or
Norfolk is perpetuated in Cecil street
and Norfolk street? Sir Walter Scott
remarks, in ''Peveril of the Peak" that
probably few of those who live in
Buckingham street, Duke street, and
Villiers street-that cluster of old
brick streets by Charing Cross-think
of the witty. eccentric, and licentious
nobleman whose titles are preserved
in these names. Hereby hangs a tale.
The immediate descendants of George
Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, were
not content with imposing every name
in his title on the streets near the
Adelphi, for when they had built
George street, Villiers street, Duke
street, and Buckingham street. they
bethought. themselves of the preDosi-
ZION ana created VI Alley. InlS al
ley survives as York Place.
AS a foundation for the study Of
London place names the County Coun-
ellis List will henceforth be indis-
pensable, but beyond Laurence
Gomme's interesting little introduction
1T is not actually concerned with this
subject. Its mission is geographical.
1t is one long rebuke to the man who
thinks he knows his London - Where,
do you imagine, are China Square,
Frogs Island, Matrimony Place, the
Neckinger, Hay Hill, the Palatinate,
Allfarthing Lane. BaSing's Folly
Mount Nod Square, Plato Road, Bah
macs News, and King David Lane?
Nay have you ever found Marylebone
High street? Or, supposing you live
in North London, have you SO much
as seen the River Wandle? Where is
Parsons Green? Did you ever enter
Barnsbury or climb knights Hill?
Have you followed Upper Wimpole
street to the bitter end? Do you know
where Hackney swoons into the arms
of Hackney Wick? Where is the last
lamp post? Alas, my brother. what
wooing is this love of Londonl