Hatton Garden is a street and commercial zone in the Holborn district of the London Borough of Camden, abutting the narrow precinct of Saffron Hill which then abuts the City of London. It takes its name from Sir Christopher Hatton, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, who established a mansion here and gained possession of the garden and orchard of Ely Place, the London seat of the Bishops of Ely. It remained in the Hatton family and was built up as a stylish residential development in the reign of King Charles II. For some decades it often went, outside of the main street, by an alternative name St Alban's Holborn, after the local church built in 1861.
A scene in Hatton Garden
A ring shop in Hatton Garden
Painted road sign
43 Hatton Garden, former 1686 church now known as Wren House
Holborn is an area in central London, which covers the south-eastern part of the London Borough of Camden and a part of the Ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London.
Staple Inn, near Chancery Lane tube station, the last of the Inns of Chancery
Passage North side of Holborn, 1897 by Philip Norman
Peter Pan statue at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Former Pearl Assurance Company building, now the Rosewood London