Green Dragon Coach Office
Names
- Green Dragon Coach Office
- the Greene Dragon
- Green Dragon Tavern
Street/Area/District
- Fleet Street
Maps & Views
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Green Dragon Coach Office
On the south side of Fleet Street at No. 56, east of Serjeants' Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without (Lockie, 1810–16).
Not named in the maps.
The "Greene Dragon" in Fleet Street is mentioned in 1612 (H. MSS. Com. Marquis of Bath, II. 62).
from the Grub Street Project, by Allison Muri (2006-present)
Green Dragon Tavern, Fleet Street. Described in A New View of London (1708) as being at the corner of the lane going south out of Fleet Street known as Whitefriars. It is mentioned by Strype as one of a "little less than a score" of taverns along Fleet Street (1726).
[1670?] The first part of Mr. Ogilby's English Atlas being published on the 28th of April last past are to be had at his office in White Fryers below the "Green Dragon" Tavern in Fleet St., where those that have subscribed and others that are willing to be concerned in like manner are desired to repair to receive African volumes that are ready to be delivered, where they may also subscribe for his second work, being America, which he hopes to make ready by January next, still continuing the same advantage according to the following proposals of six for five. Also he intends his third volume, before the publication of Asia, and his first part of Europe to be the Description of the British Monarchy, to which all those that are willing to be concerned are desired whatever they know of supplemental remarks conducible to the illustrations thereof that they would be pleased to participate them unto the author which he will take as a kind and civil favour from them. Printed. [Col. Papers, Vol. XXV., No. 113.]
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Green-Dragon-Coach-Office,—at 56, Fleet st. about the middle of the S. side, seven doors E. from Serjeants-inn.
from Old and New London, by Walter Thornbury and Edward Walford (1873-1893)
Green Dragon. The original "Green Dragon" (No. 56, south) was destroyed by the Great Fire, and the new building set six feet backward. During the Popish Plot several anti-papal clubs met here; and from the windows Roger North stood to see the shouting, torch-waving procession pass along, to burn the Pope's effigy at Temple Bar. In the "Discussion Forum" many Lord Chancellors of the future have tried their eloquence. It was celebrated some years ago from an allusion to it made by Napoleon III.
from London Signs, by Bryant Lillywhite (1972)
7874 "Greene Dragon in Fleete Street" 1612–66; "in ffleetstreet next White ffryers Alley formerly the Green Dragon" "totally taken away" after the great Fire 1666.
"Green Dragon Tavern"; "Green Dragon in Fleat streat" 1680–98 was probably near the Inner Temple Gate; 1708–48; 1763–1816; "Green Dragon east of Serjeants Inn"; Green Dragon 57 Fleet Street. Tavern. 1826–54; "modernised in recent years" 1897–1912.