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Old houses in Holborn, opposite Gray's Inn Road, 1880
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Old houses in Holborn, opposite Gray's Inn Road, 1880
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Old houses in Holborn, opposite Gray's Inn Road, 1880

Gray's Inn Lane, (now Gray's Inn Road) described in 1878 by Thornbury in Old and New London as a narrow, dingy thoroughfare, had several literary associations, it was the road by which Fielding's Tom Jones entered London, James Shirley (1596-1666), the dramatist resided here and it was the favourite haunt of the poet John Langhorne (1735-1779).
Date 1873 (1887 copy)
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Image extracted from page 1146 of volume 1 of Old and New London, Illustrated, by Walter Thornbury. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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