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By Sir Robert Smirke. Built between 1823-47. Original site of Montague House, demolished to make way for the Museum. This was also the site of the old MAnor of Blemondesbury in the 13th century.

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Was this Casanovas infamous Star Tavern?
Bloomsbury Theatre Club met here.
Now belonging to the Spirit Group mmmmm!

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Saviers of the area from the British Library Scheme

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Here Bedford Estates, The Dukes of Bedfords management office, who presided over the area, until Government intervention for the British Library scheme.

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Home of the Earl of Southampton whoes mark can still be seen in the streets around.

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The last stopping point before the Gallows

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Eminent occultist Geraldine Beskin owns this famous bookshop and continues the tradition of occultism in Bloomsbury. This shop attributed as being the oldest occult bookshop in London having started in 1922.

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Classic Art Deco Ballroom restored to splendor in 2007

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Michael Faraday lived here as a child - later to become an electric success

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Demolished in 1930's. It was set up in 1852 with nearly 1 million books and 30,000 subscribers and supporters and many of the local publishing firms

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By Hawkesmoor 1716-20. This beautiful Georgian church was restored in 2006 at a cost of £7 million, funded by Paul Mellon Trust, National Lottery and Others. Its a great place to see and listen to the regular classical music performances.

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The building that sits on this site is a replica of the one that was originally built in the 1850's and bombed during WW2

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

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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

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One of the 1st large suppliers of milk in London.
Also the 1st Pizza restaurant opened by Pizza Express in 1963.

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A Victorian artizan development originally Woburn Court, a Georgian Mews with The Fox Pub on the corner of Coptic Street

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he building was finished in 1850 and designed by noble Henry Roberts to provide decent housing for the working class. The balcony flats are built around a large open courtyard. There are amazing curved brick and plaster vaulted ceilings inside the flats.