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[OT] Ely Place, Cambridgeshire and mail sorting in Amsterdam
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J. writes 1956: City boundary still shown as running across the southern end of Ely Place (Bartholomew street atlas) At http://www.zigguratonline.com/clerkenwellhisto.html : "In medieval times, the Bishop of Ely was a powerful man. He built his palace just outside the City of London, at nearby Ely Place." At http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=63117 there's a digest of historical mentions of Ely Place which includes: "Ely Court: outside the City boundary (Bacon, 1912)." and "Six messuages and forty acres of land in Ely (in) London, the suburb of London and the parish of St. Andrew Holeburn to be alienated to the prior and convent of Ely, 1335-9 (Cal. P.R. Ed. III. 1334-8, p. 107)." At http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/M...w/churches.htm : "Holborn, St.Andrew, Holborn Viaduct [mediæval - pre-Conquest -before 951] parish originally partly within the City jurisdiction, partly in Middlesex." So apart from that last item, nothing to suggest a former presence in (or "within") the City. I've since had a look at the London Encyclopaedia (p266-7). This makes the statement that Ely place "does not form part of the City of London and is exempt from the authority of the Lord Mayor" (I think this might have been the original source for the lecture on which my notes were based. I also have a possibly erroneous mental image of an "Ely Place" street sign in the City Corporation style, white with a black border and with the city coat of arms at the side. Methinks a trip to have a look is overdue! -- Ian Jelf, MITG Birmingham, UK Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk |
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Ely Place, Cambridgeshire and mail sorting in Amsterdam
This is all great stuff and I'd like to thank all the contributors so
far. I am overdue for a trip to the Old Mitre anyway so I might try and pop down next week. |
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[OT] Ely Place, Cambridgeshire and mail sorting in Amsterdam
Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article , (Ian Jelf) wrote: I also have a possibly erroneous mental image of an "Ely Place" street sign in the City Corporation style, white with a black border and with the city coat of arms at the side. I think so. I expect 'll be in that area on the evening of 16 January next week but I'm not sure what one might see in the dark. Not a lot from Charterhouse Street, and Ely Place itself will probably be locked. |
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[OT] Ely Place, Cambridgeshire and mail sorting in Amsterdam
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(John Rowland) wrote: Colin Rosenstiel wrote: In article , (Ian Jelf) wrote: I also have a possibly erroneous mental image of an "Ely Place" street sign in the City Corporation style, white with a black border and with the city coat of arms at the side. I think so. I expect 'll be in that area on the evening of 16 January next week but I'm not sure what one might see in the dark. Not a lot from Charterhouse Street, and Ely Place itself will probably be locked. I was thinking of street name plates. -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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