Great Tower Street
The Great Tower Street, formerly Tower Street is a street in the City of London. It leads from Tower Hill to the west by the City of London.
The Great Tower Street is part of an east - west route through the city. Originally it connected the Tower of London in the east with the Eastcheap in the West. Construction of the Metropolitan Railway in 1882-1884 changed the street system of the City. The Byward Street cuts since the Tower Street. Now this ends up as a street at the Byward Street and the church of All Hallows -by-the - Tower, and goes as non -designated footpath on to the Tower. After the road of the district Tower Ward of the City of London is named.
History
The first time in documents surfaced on the Tower Street in 1250. Although it seems obvious that it is named after the Tower of London, it is also possible that in the road stood another tower. Over the centuries, the road became a part of the procession train the British monarch on ceremonial occasions, that had to do with the tower.
Originally lived in the Tower Street, especially sailors, ship chandlers and others concerned with the maritime London. The street front was lined mainly of offices and representative transactions, while workshops and less representative shops in the smaller streets of Tower Street were. The Tower Street has long been the center of the Tower Ward, London. Only through the reorganization of districts in 2003, the Tower Ward lost most of the Tower Street which was slammed several other districts.
In January 1649 there was a huge explosion in Tower Street. The ship's outfitter Robert Porter had stored overnight 27 barrels of gunpowder in his house, which he wanted to bring the next day on a ship in the Pool of London. In Porter's house, a fire broke out that gunpowder reached. The explosion of barrels destroyed several buildings in the area and cost 67 people their lives. At the time these explosions and consequences as the "Great Fire of London " were called, 17 years before the Great Fire of London took place.
In addition to the ship outfitters numerous pubs and cafes were in the street. The Dolphin Tavern was a favorite pub of Samuel Pepys and is accordingly before in his diaries. The Pub at 48 Tower Street was a pub, the Peter the Great regularly frequented when he learned shipbuilding in London, and was later called Czars Head. The coffee house of Edward Lloyd on Tower Street was the meeting place of sailors and merchants. They were the latest messages were traded from shipping, and over time developed here also a trade for boat insurance. For this cafe, both the insurance market Lloyd's of London as well as the Lloyd 's Register of Shipping arose.
Also observed Pepys from the end of the Great Brands of London from the Tower Street. Engineers of the British Army destroyed houses at the eastern end of the road, and so created a firebreak, stopping at the the Great Fire. So Tower and All Hallows -by-the - Tower were spared from the fire.
As one of only a few streets of the city, there are in the Great Tower Street nor individual apartments.
Buildings
Characteristic of the current streetscape of the Tower Street are large office buildings of the 20th and early 21st century. The Minster Court from 1991 takes greater part of the north side of the street to the east. A little further west is the Plantation Place in 2004.
Not quite as big notable buildings on the street are, for example Millocrat House (1951-1954) and the office building of Harrison & Crosfield of 1911. Several buildings on the south side are of red brick, dating from the first half of the 20th century, the all be used as office and administrative buildings.
The eastern end of Tower Street leads now as footpath and right -of -way directly through the building Tower Place on Tower Hill, and is no longer marked as a road.