03-11-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

London’s Alleys: Greystoke Place (redux), EC4

This is an alley I’ve written about before, but it recently underwent substantial change. With some additional information about its history, it’s time to have a look again.
Then
Now
The alley is one of the ancient alignments, appearing in the middle of the 1600s, and although the area changed a lot over the centuries, it remained very much a cluster of smaller buildings surrounding the alley.
Until WWII, when a bomb flattened the entire site.
It turns out that the alley was culverte
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