London Lanes is an attempt to enumerate, name and describe, as far as possible, all the lanes old and new of London. Alan Stapleton writes “In the time of Henry VIII and Elizabeth the houses of London certainly climbed skywards along the narrow lanes. These houses were half-timbered buildings of sometimes eight storeys. But each storey bulged out over the next lower, so that the people on the topmost storey could almost shake hands with their neighbours across the way. Up to the end of the eighteenth century the citizens of London lived in the heart of their city- over … Continue reading Lanes of London