Poultry is a short street in the City of London, which is the historic nucleus and modern financial centre of London. It is an eastern continuation of Cheapside, between Old Jewry and Mansion House Street, towards Bank Junction.
Looking east down Poultry toward Bank junction in 2009
Block lining the north side of the street in 1877. Shows where Cheapside has its invisible eastern start, to the west.
Image: lossy page 1 Insurance Plan of City of London Vol. I; sheet 13 (BL 150105).tiff
Image: lossy page 1 Insurance Plan of City of London Vol. I; sheet 13 (BL 150105).tiff
Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London, England, which forms part of the A40 London to Fishguard road. It links St. Martin's Le Grand with Poultry. Near its eastern end at Bank junction, where it becomes Poultry, is Mansion House, the Bank of England, and Bank station. To the west is St. Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's tube station and square.
The 1547 coronation procession of Edward VI passing the Eleanor cross in Cheapside (West Cheap)
Cheapside in 1823, looking west towards St Paul's Cathedral
A view of Cheapside published in 1837
Photochrom of Cheapside, c. 1890–1900
