Blackman Street
Names
- Blackman Street
- Blackmans Street
- Blackman's Street
- Blackmore Street
Street/Area/District
- Blackman Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Blackmans Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Blackman Street
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Blackman street, (sometimes called Blackmore street) a very spacious Str. (especially the Ely side is very long) betn St. Georges Church Nd, and the Road to Camberwell, &c. Sd; the greatest L. is 650 Yds, and from T L. SW 1500 Yds.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Blackmans Street runs from St. Georges Church almost unto Newington, the Street is broad, but the Buildings and Inhabitants not much to be boasted of; the End next to Newington hath the West side open to St. Georges Fields; being rather a Road than a Street. Here are these Places beginning at the East side next to St. Georges Church.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Blackman’s street, St. George’s church, Southwark. ✽
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Blackman-Street, Borough,—is the S. continuation of the Borough, High-street, extending from St. George's-church to Stones-end, by the King's-bench, about ¼ of a mile in length.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Blackman-St., Southwark, is the south continuation of the Borough High-street, extending from St. George's church to the Stone's-end, Newington-causeway, by the King's Bench prison. It is about a quarter of a mile in length.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Blackman Street, Southwark, extends southward from Borough High Street to Stones End. Blackman Street is mentiond by name in a Terrier of St. Thomas's Hospital, 1536–1537, and in the Charter of 4 Edward VI. (1550), by which he granted the Great Liberty Manor of Southwark to the Corporation of London.1
Farewel to the Bankside,
Farewel to Blackman's Street,
Where with my bouncing lasses
I oftentimes did meet.
The Merry Man's Resolution, Roxburgh Ballads, p. 319.
Under the Long Parliament there was constructed "a large fort with four bulwarks near the end of Blackman Street." The Southwark Police Court is in Blackman Street; the Queen's Bench Prison was at its south-western extremity; St. George's church is at its north-east end.