Road and way · London
Lantern Street
Lantern Street is the kept street at the heart of the Low Lanterns, lined with pleasure houses and walked by Ward Captain Thomas Bewley, whose watch-house overlooks it. The Blue Door, the most famous pleasure house in London, stands here under Mrs Honoria Pettigrew. Joan Marsh's eating-house and its harder back trade lie just off the street.
- Within
- The Low Lanterns
- Holds
- 3 places
- Named in
- Living Britannia, Travelling Britannia
Where the volumes speak of it
- LiB2 › 1.1 Streets, Wards, and Quarters
- LiB2 › 1.4 Taverns, Public Houses, and Beerhouses
- LiB2 › 1.9 After Dark
- LiB1 › 22.1 What the Night Sells
- LiB1 › Chapter 10 — The Watch and the Courts › 10.2 Being Stopped
- LiB1 › Chapter 22 — Pleasure Houses › 22.1 What the Night Sells
- LiB1 Addendum › The Year at a Glance › B.3 Business Without a Date
- LiB2 › Chapter 1 — London › 1.4 Taverns, Public Houses, and Beerhouses
Within Lantern Street
Inn and venue The Blue Door The best-known of the middling pleasure houses, in Lantern Street. Its keeper personally greets each visitor in a parlour whose clock is never allowed to chime, and soon… Inn and venue Joan Marsh's Room An eating-house off Lantern Street in the lower Commons, kept by Joan Marsh, who comes of Kent Street. By day it serves plain dinners to carters and working men, and the… Building Lantern Street Watch-House The Lantern Street watch-house keeps watch over the kept street of pleasure houses, under Ward Captain Thomas Bewley. It is one of London's watch-houses, with those at… 