Where Was Wych Street?
The location of the long lost Wych Street.
Location: Aldwych
Description: Where Was Wych Street? is one of the best loved short stories by Stacy Aumonier (18771928). The story has little to do with Wych Street itself, which was wiped from the London map in 1901.
Wych Street ran through where Australia House now stands on Aldwych. It ran West from the Church of St Clement Danes on the Strand to a point towards the southern end of Drury Lane.
The street and all it's stunning but decrepit Elizabethan houses was demolished by the London County Council as part of the redevelopment that created the Kingsway and Aldwych.
Some time near 1780, the brothers George and John Jacob Astor, who later became America's first multi-millionaires, ran an instrument store at 26 Wych Street.
Jack Sheppard, the infamous thief, was apprenticed to a carpenter, Mr. Wood, on Wych Street. One of Sheppard's haunts, the White Lion tavern, was also here on Wych Street.
The music hall performer Arthur Lloyd lived at 39 Wych Street in 1892.
The location of the long lost Wych Street. |
Ranking This Month: 882/3071
Pages Hit This Month: 48
Your Comments:
Other places nearby:
Irish poet WB Yeats Lived here», 1.0km
The Original Hatchard's», 1.0km
Enid Blyton was born here», 4.7km
Charles and Mary Lamb», 9.8km
Where Boswell met Johnson», 0.2km
Non-Roman Bath», 0.1km
Clapham Junction & Oscar Wilde», 4.5km
Mount Pleasant - or is it?», 0.8km
Rimbaud and Verlaines House», 1.8km
Lord Byron & 1st ever plaque», 1.2km
Location Pinpointed:
Open Street Maps», Google Maps»