Pindar Street
Names
- Pindar Street
- Skinner Street
- Skinners Street
- Skinners Rents
Street/Area/District
- Pindar Street
Maps & Views
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): Skinners Rents
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Skinners Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Skinners Street
Descriptions
from A Dictionary of London, by Henry Harben (1918)
Pindar Street
West out of Bishopsgate, partly in Bishopsgate Ward Without, partly in Shoreditch (P.O. Directory).
First mention: July 18, 1905 (L.C.C. Streets, 1912).
Former names: "Skinner Street," "Skinners Street" (Hatton, 1708–O.S.). "Skinners Rents" (O. and M. 1677).
As late as 1720 it was still in course of formation.
A good portion of the street is now only a bridge over the railway lines of the Great Eastern and North London Railways.
Renamed after Sir Paul Pindar, whose magnificent house stood in Bishopsgate Street Without.
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Skinners street, on the W. side of Bishopsgate str. near the Bars.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Skinner's Street, a very handsome open place with well built Houses.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Skinner street, Bishopsgate street, without.