Fashion Street
Names
- Fashion Street
- Fasson Street
Street/Area/District
- Fashion Street
Maps & Views
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Fashion Street
- 1720 London (Strype): Fashion Street
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Fashion Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Fashion Street
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Fashion street, a considerable one about the middle of Spittle fields, btn Brick lane E. and New Fashion str. W. L. 200 Yds.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Fashion street, Artillery lane, Spitalfields.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Fashion-Street, Brick-Lane, Spitalfields,—at 194, the fourth on the L. about ⅕ of a mile from Whitechapel, it leads into White's Row, Widegate-street, and Bishopsgate-without.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Fashion-St., Spitalfields, is the fourth turning on the left hand in Brick-lane.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Fashion Street, Spitalfields, leads from Brick Lane to White's Row—a very unfashionable locality. The name was originally Fasson Street, but it was known as Fashion Street as early as 1708.