Robin Hood (Bishopsgate)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The trees indicate more or less the southern side of the now lost Skinner Street, where the Robin Hood was located / Byron Carr, 2013, Google Maps Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-17.
The Robin Hood in Skinner Street, a side street of Bishopsgate surviving in part as Pindar Street, seems to be first mentioned in a summary of a case at the Old Bailey in 1793. It existed at least as late as 1884. The large modern office building on Primrose Street known as Exchange House covers much of the long gone Skinner Street.
The Old Bailey case report (see Records below) refers to "Robinhood and Little John in Bishopsgate-street". Since we have no evidence for the existence of a pub named the Robin Hood (and Little John) on Bishopsgate itself, I think the UK Pub History site is right in taking this as a reference to the Robin Hood in Skinner Street.[1] It was not uncommon to refer to side streets and their side streets, courts, yards, alleys etc. by the name of the larger street to which they were connected.
The stretch of the present Pindar Street that runs in a more or less easterly direction is part of the lost Skinner Street, which then did not turn north to meet up with Primrose Street but instead continued in parallel with the latter to Bishopsgate. The row of trees on the south side of Exchange House would have been on the south side of Skinner Street.Template:PnItemQry
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.
Sources
Maps
- Rocque, John, cartog.; Pine, John, engr. A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark (London, 1746); shown on this page.
- 25" O.S. map London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.11 (1916; rev. 1914)
- 25" O.S. map London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.11 (1916; rev. 1914) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Middlesex XVII (1880-82; surveyed 1868-73)
- 6" O.S. map Surrey III (1880; surveyed 1868-73)
- 6" O.S. map London VII.SE (1894-96; rev. 1893-94)
- 6" O.S. map Surrey III.NW (1898; rev. 1893-95)
- 6" O.S. map Surrey III.NW (1898; rev. 1893-95) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map London Sheet K (1920; rev. 1913-14)
- 6" O.S. map London Sheet K (c. 1946; rev. 1938).
Background
Notes
- ↑ UK Pub History: Robin Hood & Little John, 67 Skinner Street, Bishopsgate EC2.
- ↑ Also see UK Pub History: London 1841 Public House & Publican Directory - R3; UK Pub History: The London 1842 Robsons Public House & Publican Directory - R2; UK Pub History: London 1856 Public House & Publican Directory - R2; UK Pub History: London 1869 Public House & Publican Directory - R2; UK Pub History: London 1874 Licensed Victuallers and Hotel Keepers Directory - City LR; UK Pub History: The London 1884 Public House & Publican Directory - R2.
A bit of the now vanished Skinner Street / Basher Eyre, 12 Oct. 2008, Creative Commons, via Geograph.