Leadenhall Street
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Leadenhall Street is a street in the City of London. It is about 1⁄3-mile-long and links Cornhill in the west to Aldgate in the east. It was formerly the start of the A11 road from London to Norwich,
Leadenhall Street from Whittington Avenue in 2016
Leadenhall Street c.1837 looking east past East India House (engraving after Thomas H. Shepherd)
Leadenhall Street looking east from Bishopsgate in 1955
Leadenhall Street looking east from St Mary Axe in 2007
East India House
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East India House was the London headquarters of the East India Company, from which much of British India was governed until the British government took control of the company's possessions in India in
Leadenhall Street
…in Londinium, extended beneath the western end of Leadenhall Street. Roman remains have also been found on both sides of Leadenhall Street, beneath East India House (now No 12) and the P&O Building (now St Helen's Square). The street probably originated in the medieval period. It appears in a map of London in 1270…
The extended East India House in c. 1800, painted by Thomas Malton
Old East India House: from a late 17th-century Dutch print.
East India House: the Leadenhall Street frontage as rebuilt by Theodore Jacobsen in 1726–9. Engraving by T. Simpson, 1766.
Sale Room of East India House drawn by Thomas Rowlandson & Augustus Charles Pugin, c. 1809