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Liverpool Street station stands on the site of the original Bethlem Royal Hospital, colloquially known as Bedlam. 'Bedlam' is Europe's oldest continuously operating mental health hospital and is now located in Beckenham in south London.

Headquarters of the 1820 egalitarian conspiracy to kill the whole of the Cabinet.

The area beyond the 'Cripplegate' (one of the gates of the City of London) was also unsurprisingly named Cripplewas. The Barbican estate, built in the 1950s and 60s, now occupies most of the area of Cripplegate, as the area was reduced to rubble by German bombs in WWII.

Peter Kropotkin's anarchist bookshop, Freedom, is still open round the side of the Whitechapel Gallery

Farringdon was the centre of the city's migrant Italian community in the 19th century.

If you wanted to buy an automobile in the early 20th century, Great Portland Street was the place to go. It had a Benz dealership from the early 1900s and 'Speedometer House' was constructed on this street in 1913 to house the production of Smith, Smith and Son Limited Perfect Speedometers. 

Euston Road's original name, when it was built as the first bypass, for drovers to get to Smithfield Market without having to use Oxford Street.

Many Baker Street properties were requisitioned for the work of the undercover Special Operations Executive during WWII