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Phil   Link to this

Thames Street, which can be seen running East/West along the lower part of this map http://www.motco.com/Map/81002/SeriesSearchPlat... , appears to now be split into Upper Thames Street and Lower Thames Street.

Pauline   Link to this

from L&M Companion
One of the most spacious of London streets, it ran from Tower Hill west past the Custom House, Billingsgate, London Bridge and Queenhithe to Puddle Dock (the modern, w. end of Queen Victoria St).Parallel to the line of wharves and landing stairs and connected to them by frequent short, narrow lanes, it was a centre for the commodity importers and always thronged with carts and drays. After the Fire, rubble from the burnt houses was used to raise it above flood level and to reduce the steep ascent to the line of Eastcheap and Cannon St. it was still, despite its widening, too narrow for the traffice seeking to use it. Now divided above and below London Bridge into Upper and Lower Thames St respectively.

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