The Rookeries of Old

Dens of Iniquity

Here and westward to St Giles. The old site of the infamous Rookeries. Once the vilest and most degraded quarters of London inhabited by Murderers, Thieves and Vagabonds and a great number of poor and destitute. These filthy tenaments gave rise to the great Plague which started in the parish of St Giles in 1665

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