Bayley Street

Names

  • Bedford Street
  • Bayley Street

Street/Area/District

  • Bayley Street

Descriptions

from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)

Bedford-Street, Tottenham-Court-Road,—at 30, near Oxford-st. leading into Bedford-sq.

from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)

Bedford-Street, Tottenham-Court-Road,—at 30, near Oxford-st. leading into Bedford-sq.

from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)

Bedford-St., Tottenham-court-road, or Bedford-square, is near Oxford-street, and leads from Tottenham-court-road into Bedford-square, at the north-west corner.

from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)

Bedford Street, Bedford Square. The name was changed to Bayley Street in 1878. Sir Marc Isambard Brunel was living here when, in 1801, he perfected his remarkable invention of the block-making machinery.