Pindar Street

Names

  • Pindar Street
  • Skinner Street
  • Skinners Street
  • Skinners Rents

Street/Area/District

  • Pindar Street

Maps & Views

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.