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