New Oxford Street was cut through in 1847.

Historic Sites

It cut through the infamous Rookeries at a cost of £290,227. It was one of London's 1st slum clearance schemes.

The historical aspects of Bloomsbury Village in London

We have adapted a cartoon map by Chris Halliday who was a young archiect in 1981 when he collaborated with a group of Oxford Poly Architects to map some of the history of what is now called Bloomsbury Village