Blossom's Inn

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Blossom's Inn by Thomas H. Shepherd , 1850
Blossom's Inn by Thomas Colman Dibdin , 1854
The location of the Blossom's Inn (center) is shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1916 as the Goods & Parcels Office of the Great Eastern Railway.

Blossom's Inn was a pub on Lawrence Lane in the City of London that existed from the 14th century until 1855. It became an important stagecoach station and a transshipment point for goods for the carters. In the 19th century the lease was bought and the Inn became a parcel depot for the Great Eastern Railway . The name was used on a major construction project in the late 20th century, and the site is now the 30 Gresham Street complex .

Surname

The inn takes its name from the sign of the inn, which shows St. Lawrence framed by hawthorn blossoms; these were a traditional ornament for such signs. However, there are numerous variants of the name, including Bosom's Inn . These names are either misspellings of “blossom” or possibly refer to Thomas Deloney , whose Thomas of Reading says, “Our cheerful drapers kept their courage and went to Bosom's Inn, named after a sleazy old guy who was always with his Head nudged in his bosom. ”“ Our jolly clothiers kept up their courage and went to Bosom's Inn, so called from a greasy old fellow who always went nudging with his head in his bosom… ” Ben Jonson used this spelling in Christmas, His Masque in the lines: "But now comes Tom from Bosom's Inn, and he introduces King Jester." "But now comes Tom of Bosom's Inn, and he presenteth Misrule".

Carters

When the German-Roman Emperor Charles V visited Henry VIII in 1522 , the inn had twenty beds and sixty stables for horses. In the 16th century the inn became a base for wagoners and was the London departure point for James Pickford until 1756 . Thomas Nashes pamphlet Have with You to Saffron-Walden alludes to it: “But of course I cared for it and hugged it in my bosom, even as a porter at Bosome's Inn puts a cheese under his arms.” “Yet I naturally cherish and hug it in my bosome, even as a carrier at Bosome's Inn doth a cheese under his arms ".

1835 has an aging Porter of the inn, John Neat, tried for the third time, to take by hanging life. He was taken to Barts , where he looked pretty dead on arrival. He was treated with poultices , brandy , a drink of ammonia with camphor , liniments over the heart, warming the feet, a bloodletting of four pounds of blood and a turpentine - enema . After a few days of this treatment, it was said that he was “much better”, although he “still looked a bit insane”.

Later story

The site became a package handling facility for the Great Eastern Railway in the 19th century and then was renamed Blossom's Inn again in the 20th century. Today the area of ​​the Blossom's Inn is completely built on with an office building; 30 Gresham Street was built by Land Securities between 2002 and 2003 and was at the time the “largest speculative office development in the capital”.

See also

supporting documents

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey map of London, 1916, 2nd revision. Digimap.
  2. ↑ a b Ben Weinreb , Christopher Hibbert, John Keay, Julia Keay: The London Encyclopaedia , 2nd edition, Pan Macmillan, 2008, ISBN 978-1-405-04924-5 , p. 476.
  3. ^ Thomas Pennant: Some Account of London , Volume Vol. 2. J. Faulder, 1813, p. 552.
  4. ↑ Thorns and Thistles, and their Companions . In: W. Curry, Jun., And Company (Ed.): Dublin University Magazine . 43, 1854, p. 443.
  5. ^ A b c d Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten: The History of Signboards . Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly 1875, pp. 297-298.
  6. ↑ St. Bartholomew's Hospital . In: The Lancet . 24, No. 628, September 12, 1835, pp. 793-794. doi : 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (02) 98016-5 .
  7. ^ Multiple Ordnance Survey Maps, Digimap .
  8. ^ "Buildings going up despite City glut," Jenny Davey, The Times , Oct. 20, 2003, p. 25.
  9. ↑ "Gamble on Gresham St." The Times , May 22, 2003, p. 35.