3-101-146 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

Old House, Fore Street, c1884. Bianchi's shop on the corner of Milton Street, City of London. 'This house, of a type very rare in London - made rarer still by the demolition of this subject - dates probably from before the Great Fire...This house stood at the corner of Milton Street, a new name given some forty years ago to Grub Street, famous - or infamous in the annals of literature. The Street has long borne its old name. We find it recorded in 1320, that Richard le Cordewanere, of Grascherch, and his fellows, took from "William de Grobbelane" three pairs of false "shoes"; and the name occurs in the City records even earlier than this (Riley's Memorials, p.136).' Description by Alfred Marks. This area was badly bombed in World War II, Fore Street being the site of the first bomb to fall on the City of London. Milton Street no longer intersects Fore Street and much of the area now houses the Barbican complex. Signs advertise sherbet, ices, new milk, and lemonade.