St. Martin's Le Grand looking south: St. Martin's Le Grand is a former liberty within the City of London, and is the name of a street north of Newgate...
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The General Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand (later known as GPO East) was the main post office for London between 1829 and 1910, the headquarters...
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end, to St. Martin's Le Grand in the west. Gresham Street was created in 1845 by widening and amalgamating Cateaton Street, Maiden Lane, St. Anne's Lane...
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St Martin le Grand, York is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in York. The church dates from the 11th century. The tower was built...
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General Post Office (section St Martin's Le Grand)
had branches in every major sorting office in the UK and in St Martin's Le Grand GPO, near St Paul's Cathedral. Letters targeted for interception by the...
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St. Martin's Le Grand (which extends northward as Aldersgate Street), Noble Street and Foster Lane. The ward took in the liberty of St. Martin's Le Grand...
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the Postmaster General, set up a committee at the Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand to investigate how London could best be divided for the purposes...
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which forms part of the A40 London to Fishguard road. It links St Martin's Le Grand with Poultry. Near its eastern end at Bank Junction, where it becomes...
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include: St Martin's Church, Aalst St Martin's Church, Arlon Saint Martin's Church (Ghent) [nl]; see Georges-Jacques Aelsters Saint Martin's Church (Kortrijk)...
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sorting office was located in the cramped basement of GPO East in St. Martin's Le Grand; Baines was actively seeking to remove it, preferably to a spacious...
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General Post Office on nearby St. Martin's Le Grand. The name Post Office was possibly chosen instead of the more obvious St. Paul's to differentiate it...
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the City of London that ran between Edward Street (Hall Lane) and St Martin's Le Grand. On part of its site stands Postman's Park. The street may once have...
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City of London that runs between King Edward Street in the west and St Martin's Le Grand in the east. Although dating back to at least 1542, no original buildings...
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incandescent lamps to provide street lighting from Holborn Circus to St. Martin's Le Grand, which was later expanded to 3,000 lamps. The power station also...
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special case occupied Parliament's attention in 1815. The Liberty of St Martin's Le Grand was situated in the City of London, but was part of the borough of...
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line from Holborn to Gresham Street via the General Post Office on St Martin's le Grand was under construction in 1865. By the time of the 1866 financial...
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roads. The route of the A1 in London runs from the northern end of St. Martin's Le Grand in the City to Borehamwood in Hertfordshire, then travels on the...
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0978 Little Britain is a street in the City of London running from St. Martin's Le Grand in the east to West Smithfield in the west. It is situated in the...
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this congregation moved initially to the Bull and Mouth-Street, St. Martin's Le Grand, and then to Paul's Alley in the Barbican in the autumn of 1778...
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December 12, 2010. Bacon, E. D. (1899). "Ocean penny postage". St. Martin's-le-grand (April): 164ff. "Dictionary of Australian Biography: Sir John Henniker...
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initially operated from a room in the General Post Office building on St. Martin's Le Grand in the City of London. By 1864 it had outgrown the space available...
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"market". The following roads run north to south across the ward: St. Martin's Le Grand, Foster Lane, Gutter Lane, Wood Street, Milk Street, King Street...
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mark on 3 May 1768, giving an address of 3 Bull and Mount Street in St Martin's Le Grand. She appears to have been active for only a year after the death...
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London, a short distance north of St Paul's Cathedral. Bordered by Little Britain, Aldersgate Street, St. Martin's Le Grand, King Edward Street, and the site...
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of the wall and the Manor of Finsbury). The Soke was granted to St. Martin's Le Grand by William the Conqueror in 1068, in exchange for prayers for the...
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tracked her down and escorted her to sanctuary at the Church of St Martin's le Grand. In order to win the final consent of his brother George to the marriage...
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London as well as being a member of the papal chapel and the dean of St Martin le Grand. Wingham was elected to the see of London about 29 June 1259, confirmed...
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Thomas Gresham (category People educated at St Paul's School, London)
1597; Gresham Street in the City of London running east from St Martin's Le Grand near St Paul's Cathedral, past the Guildhall and the Bank of England...
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demolished in 1887 or 1888 when new post office buildings were built in St Martin's Le Grand. The original name of the inn was the Boulogne Mouth in reference...
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England as a diplomat. His church career in England, being a dean of St. Martin's Le Grand in London from 1262. His influence at court in 1262 is evidenced...
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