the Curtain
Names
- the Curtain
- Curtain Row
- Curtain Road
Street/Area/District
- the Curtain
Maps & Views
- 1677 A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (Ogilby & Morgan): the Curtain
- 1720 London (Strype): the Curtain
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): the Curtain
- 1761 London (Dodsley): the Curtain
Descriptions
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Curtain row, Hog lane, Norton Falgate.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Curtain-Road, Shoreditch, is the first turning on the right hand in Worship-street, going from Shoreditch, and reaching to Old-street-road. It received its name from the Curtain Theatre, wherein Ben Johnson, Tarlton and other celebrated actors of that period often performed.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Curtain Road, Shoreditch, leading from Worship Street to Old Street Road. [See Curtain Theatre.]
Porter, which was first brewed in the neighbouring High Street, Shoreditch, was first retailed at the "Blue Last," Curtain Ditch. It was numbered 84, and stood at the corner of New Inn Yard. An Act was passed in 1752 to widen, repair, and keep in repair the road from the Red Lion on Windmill Hill, by the east end of the Artillery Ground Walk, to the end of Thunderbolt Alley, and thence through Worship Street and the Curtain to the Ditchside next to the east side of Holywell Mount. St. James's Church in this road was built in 1839 from the designs of Mr. George Vulliamy, architect.