Bird Street
Names
- Bird Street
Street/Area/District
- Bird Street
Maps & Views
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Bird Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Bird Street
- 1799 London (Horwood): Bird Street
Descriptions
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Bird-Street, Oxford-Street,—at 167, and 283, on both sides, about ⅞ of a mile from St. Giles's, leading into Henrietta-street, on the N. and to 31, Brook-st. Grosvenor-square on the S.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Bird-St., Oxford-street, turns off at Nos. 167 and 238, on both sides of the way about three quarters of a mile from St. Giles's, and leads into Henrietta-street, Manchester-square, on the north, and to No. 31, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, on the south. The upper or northern part is generally called Bird-street, Manchester-square, and the lower, Bird-street, Grosvenor-square.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Bird Street, Oxford Street. This street was built before 1750, and extended on both sides of Oxford Street, from Brook Street on the south to Henrietta Street on the north, the southern portion being known as Bird Street, Grosvenor Square, the northern as Bird Street, Manchester Square. Some time after 1831 the name of the southern portion was changed to Thomas Street. Thomas Banks, the sculptor, and his wife lived here before they went to Italy in 1772.