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A procession left Clerkenwell Green in order to present the petition to Thomas Duncombe, MP for Finsbury. Meetings were held regularly during the summer of 1848. Over 4,000 met on the Green on 31st May, 300-400 on 25th July, 3000 on the 18th August, with further meetings on the 20th and 25th August.
Clerkenwell Green Clerkenwell Green. Clerkenwell Green lies at the centre of the old village, by the church, and has a mixture of housing, offices and pubs, dominated by the imposing former Middlesex Sessions House. It was built in 1782, extended during the Victorian era, and by the early 21st century used as a Masonic hall. The name is ...
5 days ago · 100. The Green in 1898 showing drinking-fountain and trough in their original positions. 101. Reform League procession leaving Clerkenwell Green for Trafalgar Square, February 1867; note 'liberty' caps on some banners. 102. Archbishop Manning administering the pledge outside the Crown public house, 1872.
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Clerkenwell is Islington’s oldest residential and business district. The area is named after the Clerks’ Well, a 12th-century water source that adjoined St Mary’s Nunnery (c1140), a religious order once located off Clerkenwell Green. Due to fresh air, a plentiful supply of fresh water, open fields and its proximity to the City ...
Clerkenwell, neighbourhood in the inner borough of Islington, London. It is composed of the parishes of St. James and St. John. The area developed around the Nunnery of St. Mary (replaced by St. James, Clerkenwell Green, in 1792) and the Priory of St. John of Jerusalem, both founded in the 12th
