Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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New Palace Yard was immediately to the north of Westminster Hall: http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/128.php
Old Palace Yard was to the south of the Hall. Latham & Matthews assume that when Pepys was ambiguous and referred to merely “Palace Yard” or “Palace,” he’s referring to New Palace Yard.
new palace yard had the world’s first traffic lights
However the world’s first automatic traffic lights could be seen in Princes Square, Wolverhampton in 1927.
The Crown was almost certainly in Old Palace Yard - it is refered to in a trial report of the theft of a silver tankard in 1683
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_units/1680s/t16830418a-6.html
Looking for any/all info on
‘The Fleece’ New Palace Yard 1770’s
as ancestors of mine were Landlords
Thanks