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unusual facts about Cannon Street


Oxford and St Georges Old Boys and Old girls Clubs

The first club in the East End of London was held in Cannon Street Road and it expanded into bigger premises in Betts Street where the Girl's Club was added.


One New Change

The complex is located on New Change, a road linking Cannon Street with Cheapside, in one of the areas of the City historically associated with retailing and markets.

St Martin Orgar

St Martin Orgar was a church in the City of London in Martin Lane, off Cannon Street, most famous as being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons".

Swan Bells

However, since the rhyme refers to bells in the City of London and St Martins-in-the-Fields is in the City of Westminster, the line more likely refers to St Martin Orgar, near Cannon Street, which no longer exists.


see also

Birmingham Assay Office

The Birmingham Assay Office moved from the pub in 1815 to its own offices at Little Cannon Street and then moved to its current home on Newhall Street in the Jewellery Quarter in 1877, and is now the largest Assay Office in Europe, hallmarking 13 million articles in 2003.

Cannon Street station

Due to the Thameslink Programme removing the Spa Road Junction that enables access to Charing Cross from stations on the Greenwich Line and additionally New Cross and St Johns, these services will need to run to Cannon Street at all times.

Catrin ferch Owain Glyndŵr

A memorial to Catrin stands in Cannon Street Garden, where the church formerly stood; the statue was designed by Nic Stradlyn-John and sculpted by Richard Renshaw, and was unveiled in 2001 by Siân Phillips.

City of London Pedway Scheme

Other significant stretches of the Pedway network were built in Lower Thames Street, Cannon Street and around the former Stock Exchange building.

Lewis De Visme

Christened on 7 October 1720 at the French Huguenot Church of St Martin Orgar in Martin Lane, Cannon Street, London, Lewis Devisme was the fourth child and third son of Philippe de Visme, a successful City merchant, by Marianne de la Mejanelle his wife.

Queen Street, London

Two short sections of the street are pedestrianised, which together with a pedestrian-priority crossing of Cannon Street, forms a "Central Plaza" area.