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