Clare Market was an area of London to the west of Lincoln's Inn Fields, between the Strand and Drury Lane, with Vere Street adjoining its western side. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London, England. The Strand is a street in the City of Westminster, London, England. Drury Lane is a street in the Covent Garden area of London, running between Aldwych and High Holborn. Not to be confused with Vere Street Westminster. Vere Street was a street in the Lincoln's Inn Fields area between Clare Market It was named for the food 69 market in established there, in Clement's Inn Fields, by John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare. Sao Paulo Stock Exchangejpg|thumb| Virtual market arena where buyer and seller are not present and trade via intemediates and electronical information John Holles 2nd Earl of Clare ( 13 June 1595 – 2 January 1666) was an English nobleman It was originally centred on a small market building constructed by Lord Clare in c. 1657, but the retail area spread through a maze of narrow interconnecting streets lined by butchers' shops and greengrocers. Butchers would slaughter sheep and cattle for sale. An area was set aside for Jews to slaughter kosher meat. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ The market mostly sold meat, although fish and vegetables were also sold. In modern English usage meat most often refers to Animal tissue used as food mostly Skeletal muscle and associated Fat, but it may also refer
An early theatre was in Gibbon's Tennis Court, in the Clare Market area. Gibbon's Tennis Court was a building off Vere Street and Clare Market, near Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, England. A club of artists, including William Hogarth, met at the Bull's Head Tavern in the market. William Hogarth (10 November 1697 &ndash 26 October 1764 was a major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic
The area was not affected by the Great Fire of London, and the decrepit Elizabethan buildings survived until the area, by then a slum, was redeveloped by the London County Council in around 1900 to create the Aldwych and Kingsway. This article is about the Great Fire of 1666 For other great fires in London see Early fires of London or Second Great Fire of London. Romance and reality The Victorian era and the early twentieth century idealised the Elizabethan era A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security London County Council (LCC was the principal local government body for the County of London, throughout its 1889-1965 existence and the first London-wide general municipal Aldwych ('ɔːldwɪtʃ is a place and road in the City of Westminster in London, England. Kingsway is a major road in central London in the United Kingdom, designated as part of the A4200. Parts of the London School of Economics now occupy the site, and the name is commemorated in an academic journal published by the university, entitled The Clare Market Review. The London School of Economics and Political Science, more commonly referred to as The London School of Economics or LSE, is a specialist college of the Established in 1905 the Clare Market Review is the oldest student-run journal in the UK
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- Victorian London
- "St. Clement Danes: Clare Market", A History of the County of Middlesex: online draft (2002)
- "The Strand (northern tributaries): Drury Lane and Clare Market", Old and New London: Volume 3 (1878), pp. 36-44
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