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Shoe Lane

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London, United Kingdom

: Shoe Alley

A passage off Fleet Street in Holborn, London.

During his stay in London in 1794, Johann Conrad Fischer worked for the mechanics master Rhé, whose workshop was in Shoe Lane. Rhé is not mentioned in Kent’s Directory for the Year 1794. Cities of London and Westminster, & Borough of Southwark. The directory, however, does give the impression of a bustling trade in Shoe Lane at the time:

  • Bland Thomas, Brass Founder, 40, Shoe lane, Fleet street
  • Botten & Son, Founders, 62, Shoe lane
  • Coles Wm. Oil & Colourman, 24, Shoe lane, Ditto
  • Cornell & Acton, jun. Goldbeaters, 72, Shoe lane, Fleet street
  • Eley & Son, Goldbeaters, 105, Shoe lane, Fleet street
  • Joseph H. & R. Pewterers, 9, Little New street, Shoe lane

Traveljournal 1794

Traveljournal 1814

Traveljournal 1845

Traveljournal 1851

  • Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.
  • Jenstad, Janelle: Shoe Lane. In: Janelle Jenstad (Hg.): The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6. Victoria 2021 (Map of Early Modern London, Stand 26.10.2021).

Cite as: Shoe Lane. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/places/gfa-places-1493, viewed on 6 June 2025.

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Oldbourne Hall in Shoe Lane, London (illustration by George Walter Thornbury, 1873)