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Leadenhall Street is a street in the City of London, formerly part of the A11. It runs east from Cornhill to Aldgate, and west vice-versa. Aldgate Pump is at the junction with Aldgate. During much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries its name was synonymous with the East India Company which had its heaquarters there.
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In 1879 a telephone exchange was installed at 101 Leadenhall Street by The Telephone Company Ltd. (Bell's Patents) — one of the first in London.
The street was home to East India House from 1729 until its demolition in 1869; the site is now occupied by the insurance market Lloyd's of London. The London Metal Exchange is located at 56 Leadenhall Street.
Several companies are also headquartered on Leadenhall Street, including Xchanging, Ace European Group, Markel Insurance Services, Verdasys's EMEA Headquarter and Allianz Global Risks.
Leadenhall Market is accessible via Whittington Avenue, a small side road off Leadenhall Street. Opposite the Lloyd's building is a 48-storey skyscraper under construction, the Leadenhall Building, due to be completed in 2014.
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Coordinates: 51°30′48″N 0°04′52″W / 51.51346°N 0.081°W / 51.51346; -0.081
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Leaden Hall Street
is a major E-W street 1/3 down from the top of this section of the 1746 map
http://www.motco.com/map/81002/SeriesSearchPlatesFulla.asp?mode=query&title=Leaden+Hall+Street&artist=384&other=321&x=11&y=11
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Leaden Hall Street.
At the coronation of Charles II, the first triumphal arch erected in Leadenhall Street, near Lime Street, for the king to pass under on his way from the Tower to Westminster, is described in Ogilby’s contemporary account of the ceremony as having in its centre a figure of Charles, royally attired, behind whom, ‘on a large table, is deciphered the Royal Oak bearing crowns and sceptres instead of acorns; amongst the leaves, in a label
“—————- Miraturque novas
Frondes et non sua poma.”
(—————- Leaves unknown
Admiring, and strange apples not her own.)(Book of Days.)