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Henry A Harben, 'Queen's Colledge Passage Square, or Queen's Square Passage - Quick Apple Alley', in A Dictionary of London( London, 1918), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london/queens-colledge-passage-square-quick-apple-alley [accessed 31 October 2024].
Henry A Harben, 'Queen's Colledge Passage Square, or Queen's Square Passage - Quick Apple Alley', in A Dictionary of London( London, 1918), British History Online, accessed October 31, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london/queens-colledge-passage-square-quick-apple-alley.
Henry A Harben. "Queen's Colledge Passage Square, or Queen's Square Passage - Quick Apple Alley". A Dictionary of London. (London, 1918), , British History Online. Web. 31 October 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london/queens-colledge-passage-square-quick-apple-alley.
In this section
- Queen's Colledge Passage Square, or Queen's Square Passage
- Queen's College Yard
- Queen's Court
- Queen's Court
- Queen's Court, Aldersgate Street
- Queen's Head Alley, Newgate Street
- Queen's Head Alley, Tavern
- Queen's Head Court
- Queen's Head Court
- Queen's Head Court
- Queen's Head Passage
- Queen's Head Tavern
- Queen's Head Tavern
- Queen's Office Alley
- Queen's Square, Queen's Square Passage, Leadenhall Street
- Queen's Storehouse
- Queen's Wardrobe
- Quick Apple Alley
Queen's Colledge Passage Square, or Queen's Square Passage
South out of I,eadenhall
Street and east to Lime Street. In Lime Street Ward (Strype, 1720 and 1755).
A passage into Leadenhall Market. The southern portion called "Pav'd Alley," or "Little Queen Street" (q.v.) in Rocque, 1746, the northern portion occupied by the Green Market.
Strype says the site was originally occupied by a large house, the habitation of a merchant, and.anciently supposed to belong to the Kings and Queens (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 89).
Part of the site is now occupied by Leadenhall Place (q.v.).
See Artirce (The King's).
Queen's College Yard
South out of Duke Humfrey's, in Castle Baynard Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755).
It seems to be called " Castle Lane" in Stow, and to occupy the site of the hostel called "Okebourn" (q.v.).
Site now occupied by St. Andrew's Wharf (q.v.).
Queen's Court
In St. Catherine's Court (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
Queen's Court
West out of Vine Street, north of The Circus, in Portsoken Ward (P.O. Directory).
Earliest mention : Boyle, 1799.
Queen's Court, Aldersgate Street
See Queen Square.
Queen's Head Alley, Newgate Street
See Queen's Head Passage.
Queen's Head Alley, Tavern
South out of Wormwood Street, in Broad Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1720 and 1755).
The site is now occupied by part of Union Court (q.v.).
Queen Elizabeth formed the type for representations of the sign of the Queen's Head for more than two centuries.
Queen's Head Court
East out of Giltspur Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C 1732-L.C.C. List, 1901).
Site now occupied by St. Bartholomew's Hospital Out-patient department, etc.
Queen's Head Court
In Fleet Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
There was a tavern called the Queen's Head betwixt the Temple Gates, 28 H. VIII. (L. and P. H. VIII. XI. 556).
Not named in the maps.
Queen's Head Court
South out of Turnagain Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720-Boyle, 1799).
Site now occupied by Holborn Viaduct and its approaches.
Queen's Head Passage
South out of Newgate Street, at No. 41, to Paternoster Row. In Farringdon Ward Within (P.O. Directory).
First mention: Horwood, 1799.
Former name: "Queens Head Alley" (Leake, 166~P.C. 1732).
The name of the public-house at No. 41 Newgate Street at the present time is the "King's Head."
So called from the Queen's Head Tavern there seated in an open square Court, from which it hath a long passage into Newgate Street (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 196).
Queen's Head Tavern
On the west side of Bishopsgate Street, with a passage into Queen's Head Alley, leading into Broad Street. In Bishopsgate Ward Within (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 107).
See Queen's Head Alley, Wormwood Street.
Queen's Head Tavern
Given by Thos. Busbie Cooper for the relief of the poor in St. Giles' Parish without Cripplegate (S. 302).
No further reference. Site not identified.
Queen's Office Alley
In Shoe Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
Queen's Square, Queen's Square Passage, Leadenhall Street
See Queen's Colledge Passage Square.
Queen's Storehouse
In East Smithfield (Midd. Sessions Rolls, 19 Eliz. I. 104).
Queen's Wardrobe
See Northumberland House, St. Martin's Lane; and Tower Royal.
Quick Apple Alley
In Bishopsgate Street Without (W. Stow, 1722-Dodsley, 1761). Not named in the maps.