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"We have had under consideration plans for the development of the Reid's Brewery site,
" Clerkenwell, which was acquired by the Council for the provision of accommodation for persons
" to be displaced by the formation of the new street from Holborn to the Strand. The site has
" frontages to Clerkenwell Road, Leather Lane, Portpool Lane, and Gray's Inn Road. The plan
" which we have approved and which has also received the approval of the Secretary of State
" provides for the erection of five-story block dwellings all round the site except on the frontage to
" Gray's Inn Road, where the existing buildings will remain for the present. These dwellings
" will be pierced with six archways up to the second floor, giving access to the interior of the
" site. There are also two existing archways from Gray's Inn Road. The main interior of the
" site will be occupied by five five-story transverse blocks of dwellings divided by yards and gardens.
" The narrow end of the site next Gray's Inn Road will contain another short block of five-story
" dwellings, and the remainder of the site between this block and Gray's Inn Road frontages will
" be laid out as a playground and garden. An estate office and twenty-three shops will be pro"
vided on the ground floor of the dwellings facing Clerkenweli Road and Leather Lane. The
" accommodation will consist of 5-51 tenements, of which only 13 will be associated and the
"remainder self-contained. The 13 associated tenements will consist of one room; there
" will be 301 two-roomed tenements, 136 three-roomed tenements, and JI four-roomed tenements.
" Accommodation will be provided in all for 2,614 persons, exclusive of the shops."
herbrand street site.
In 1901 this site was acquired for the purpose of providing for 080 of the 3,700 persons
of the working classes displaced by the new Holborn to the Strand street, and building operations
were begun about August, 1902.
houses closed voluntarily, demolished, rebuilt, &c.
Bloomsbury and St. Giles.
Alfred Place, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Demolished.
Alfred Place, Nos. 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Closed.
Betterton Street, No. 28. Demolished and Extension of the British Lying-in Hospital
built.
Bernard Street and Herbrand Street (corner of). New Flats being erected.
Bloomsbury Street, Nos. 9, 11, 19. Closed.
,, „ Nos. 14, 16. Demolished.
,, ,, No. 20. Rebuilt.
„ „ Nos. 21 and 23, and Nos. 94, 95, 96, and 97, Great Russell Street,
Partly rebuilt as the Kenilworth and Waverley Hotel.
Chenies Sti-eet, Nos. 8 and 10. Closed.
Coptic Street, Nos. 26, 27, 28 and 29. Demolished.
Cof.mo Place, No. 4. Remains closed.
Francis Street, No. 18. Demolished.
Francis Street, Nos. 5, 6 and 7, and 37 and 39, Huntley Street. Rebuilding as Public
House, Shops and Flats (Blenheim Mansions). Nearly completed.
Great Russell Street, No. 29. Closed.
Great Russell Street, Nos. 94, 95, 96, and 97, and Nos. 21, and 23, Bloomsbury Street.
Partly rebuilt as the Kenilworth and Waverley Hotel.
Great White Lion Street, No. 3. Closed.
Great Wild Street, Nos. 31, 32, 33, 34 and 3o. Closed.
Herbrand Street. New Houses for the Working Classes being erected for the L.C.C,
,, „ and Bernard Street (corner of). New Flats being erected,
High Street, No, 47. Demolished and New Warehouse built.