From :Â In 1896 the street was renamed to join the street to its west, Old Compton Street. Â On we found a page reporting that Rimbaud and Verlaine in 1871 used to frequent a bar, the Hibernia, at 5 Little Compton Street. Â The building shown on that page is now 5 Old Compton Street.
Note: New Compton Street used to extend to the west and join Little Compton Street. Â This section of road may have disappeared in 1877 when Charing Cross Road was built over the (presumably narrower) Crown Street.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Little Compton Street
The grill is above a brick-walled tunnel which carries a mass of cables. The...
In 1897 J. Lyons and Co. secured an 80 year lease on this site from the Worshipful Company of Drapers and built the restaurant in the basement with offices above. The restaurant opened in 1900 and ...
It seems likely that this tavern and pleasure gardens took the name of a publican with the foreign name 'Pimlico'.  There were many places of entertainment nearby and the whole area became known as...
Railway line, known as the 'Twopenny Tube', as all tickets were sold at the price of two pre-decimal pennies. It was taken over by London Underground, becoming the Central line. See Londonist for ...
The first steam railway to have a terminus in London. Originally it ran, largely on viaducts, between Deptford and Spa Road Bermondsey. By 1838 it had been extended at both ends: from Deptford to G...
First documented in 1674, at its largest the farmland was bounded by High Road, Ballards Lane, Long Lane, Squire's Lane. Â The Cobley family owned he farm from 1680 to 1902 when it was sold, the bui...
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