Gilbert Street
Names
- Gilbert Street
Street/Area/District
- Gilbert Street
Maps & Views
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Gilbert Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Gilbert Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Gilbert Street
- 1799 London (Horwood): Gilbert Street
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Gilbert street, on the NE side of Queen str. Blomesbury, L. 120 Yds.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
[Gilbert Street.] On the East side [of Queen Street] is Gilbert Street, as also Little Russel Street; both which fall on the backside of Allington Row, used for Coach Houses and Stables. These Streets are but ordinary.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Gilbert’s street, Bloomsbury.†
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Gilbert-Street, Bloomsbury,-the first S. parallel to part of Great Russell-st. say from 49 to 65, extending from Queen-st. to Bury-st.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Gilbert-St., Bloomsbury,-is the first turning on the left from Museum-street and leads into Bury-street, parallel to Great-Russell-street.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Gilbert Street, Bloomsbury, runs parallel with Great Russell Street, from Museum Street to Bury Street. So called after Gilbert Holles, third Earl of Clare, who died in Warwick House, Holborn, January 16, 1688–1689. He was the father of John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, who died July 15, 1711. Michael Faraday, when a child, lived with his father in Gilbert Street. Fifteen lives were lost by a fire which occurred in this street on the morning of Sunday, March 28, 1858. The north-east side of Clare Market was also called Gilbert Street, after the Earl of Clare.