Trump Street is a street in the City of London that was originally known as Trumpadere Street, probably after the trumpet or horn makers who once worked there or in the adjacent Trump Alley (now demolished). It was built after the Great Fire of London (1666) but completely destroyed by bombing during the Second World War and has since been entirely rebuilt.
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Trump Street runs between Russia Row and King Street.Philip's Street Atlas London, Philips, London, 2003. p. 242. The pedestrianised Honey Lane runs from the south side to join it to Cheapside. It is crossed only by Lawrence Lane.
Freeman's Court, originally known as Trump Alley, once ran between Lawrence Lane and Honey Lane immediately to the south of and parallel with Trump Street.Foxton Inn – Fresh Wharf Gateway. British History Online. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
Origins Trump Street, originally known as Trumpadere Street, was built after the Great Fire of London in 1666. John Strype called it Duke Street in 1720.Besant, Walter. (1910) London City. (The Survey of London) London: Adam & Charles Black. p. 37.
The street may be named after Trump Alley or named because its occupants had the same occupation as those that lived in the alley. Henry Riley writes in his Memorials of the inscription on the coffin of Godefrey le Trompour and of trumpeters generally that:
Henry Harben considered that Riley was wrong to believe that Trump Alley and Trump Street were synonymous.
Trump Street was recorded by the cartographer John Rocque in 1746, and The London Encyclopaedia write that it "probably derived from a nearby Tavern, the Trumpeter Inn"."Trump Street" in It appears on Richard Horwood's original (1799) and revised (1813) map of London with Honey Lane Market at its western end where Russia Row is now.Laxton, Paul & Joseph Wisdom. (1985) The A to Z of Regency London. London: London Topographical Society. p. 31.
Buildings A tavern known as Blossom's Inn once stood on the north side of the street on a large site on the corner with Lawrence Lane from the fourteenth century until 1855. In the 1750s it became the London base for James Pickford, founder of the Pickfords removal firm. Archaeological excavations on the site in 2001 recovered Roman remains."Lawrence Lane", The London Encyclopaedia, p. 476. The site became a parcels depot for the Great Eastern Railway in the nineteenth century before being renamed Blossom's Inn again in the twentieth century.Multiple Ordnance Survey maps, Digimap. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
The street was completely destroyed by German bombing on 29 December 1940 during the Second World War and has since been rebuilt.Smith, Al. (1970) Dictionary of City of London Street Names. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 203.
Today it is completely made up of office buildings with some retail premises at street level. The City Tavern, a post-Second World War pub which once stood on the south side on the corner with Lawrence Lane has been replaced with offices. Opposite, still on the south side, is King's House (36–37 King Street). The north side, east of Lawrence Lane, is 35 King Street. The north side west of Lawrence Lane is an office building of "Buildings going up despite City glut", Jenny Davey, The Times, 20 October 2003, p. 25. known as 30 Gresham Street that was developed by Land Securities in 2002–2003 and was described at the time as "the biggest speculative office development in the capital"."Gamble on Gresham St." The Times, 22 May 2003, p. 35.
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