2-798-857 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

London improvements - Cranbourne Street, 1845. '...the plan of opening a street in a line with Coventry-street, across Leicester-square, by Cranbourne-street...has only just been executed...the new line from the corresponding corner of Leicester-square, is named "Cranbourne-street". The houses have been built from the designs of Mr. Herbert, of Pimlico; Messrs. Archbutt and Co.; and Messrs. Burton and Dent...The width is 54 feet. We understand that the Improvement Commissioners intend to continue this line..thus opening a noble avenue long wanted from the north to the south side of London...The plans will be carried out by Mr. Barry, the celebrated architect, and, combined with the new streets, north and south, east and west...will indeed be a boon to the public, as well as a vast advantage to the metropolis in a healthful as well as a moral point of view'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.