![]() ![]() In the early 1660s, the Earl of Southampton constructed what eventually became Bloomsbury Square. In the 16th century, with the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII took the land back into the possession of the Crown, and granted it to Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton. An 1878 publication, Old and New London: Volume 4, mentions the idea that the area was named after a village called Lomesbury which formerly stood where Bloomsbury Square is now, though this piece of folk etymology is now discredited.Īt the end of the 14th century Edward III acquired Blemond’s manor, and passed it on to the Carthusian monks of the London Charterhouse, who kept the area mostly rural. The name Bloomsbury is a development from Blemondisberi – the bury, or manor, of Blemond. But it is not until 1201 that the name Bloomsbury is first noted, when William de Blemond, a Norman landowner, acquired the land. The earliest record of what would become Bloomsbury is the 1086 Domesday Book, which records that the area had vineyards and ’wood for 100 pigs’. If anyone has any answers please email me īloomsbury Bloomsbury is an area of the London Borough of Camden, in central London, between Euston Road and Holborn, developed by the Russell family in the 17th and 18th centuries into a fashionable residential area. An elderly gentleman once told me when I was a child that there used to be a cemetery but I am not sure if he was trying to scare us children! I only thought about this recently when walking past the old Methodist Church and seeing the flag stone in the side of the wall with the inscription of when it was built late 1880 We now walk my mothers dog there twice a day. We spent most of our childhood playing along the old dis-used railway that run directly along Blythwood Road and opposite Holly Park Estate - top end which is where we live/ed. I am wondering if there was ever a cemetery within The Hollies? And if so where? Was it near to the Blythwood Road end or much nearer to the old Methodist Church which is still standing although rather old looking. I lived in Holly Park Estate from 1969 I was 8 years old when we moved in until I left to get married, my mother still lives there now 84. Formerly the Gaiety Restaurant dined 2000 persons daily no business whatever is now done in this direction. the manager of the restaurant, estimates that the rats have destroyed L200 worth of linen. In the bar the removal of a panel disclosed the astonishing fact that the rats have dragged for a distance of seven or eight yards some thirty or forty beer and wine bottles and stacked them in such a fashion as to make comfortable sleeping places. This represents 1728 serviettes carried theee by the rats. Behind the wainscot of the bandstand in the grillroom is a large mound of linen shreds. Those three spacious halls which have witnessed many as semblages of theatre-goers are now qui:e deserted. Rats have invaded the premises in such force that the managers have had to close the large dining room on the first floor and the grill rooms on the ground floor and in the basement. ![]() The Gaiety Restaurant has been the greatest sufferer. The unwelcome visitors have been evicted from their old haunts by the County Council housebreakers, and are now busily in search of new homes. "There are millions of them," said one shopkeeper, and his statement was supported by other residents. The rats, indeed, have appeared in almost-incredible numbers. Women refuse to pass along Blackmore street and the lower parts of Stanhope street after dusk, for droves of rats perambulate the roadways and pavements, and may be seen running along the window ledges of the empty houses awaiting demolition by the County Council in the Strand to Holborn improvement scheme. Something akin to a reign of terror prevails among the inhabitants after nightfall. The streets principally infested are Catherine street, Drury lane, Blackmore street, Clare Market and Russell street. The Daily Mail on 14 April 1903 reported "MILLIONS OF RATS IN BUSY LONDON"Ī rat plague, unprecedented in the annals of London, has broken out on the north side of the Strand.
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