St John Street News

draw a line on the map from the angel islington to smithfield market and you’re following the line of st john street, a medieval thoroughfare that once linked the city of london to the country hamlet of islington. down this street, for centuries, farmers from the fields north of london would drive their cattle down the street to be slaughtered. walk along st john street today, and you pass through almost a millennium of history – past the remains of a medieval priory, former breweries, warehouses and factories. and – if you know where to look – there are numerous reminders of the clerkenwell of the 19th and 20th centuries – when hundreds of jewellers and clockmakers made this quarter of london their own. st john street fell into decline in the latter years of the 20th century, but in the 21st , this once post-industrial part of london has been reborn, as the internet and new media companies around old street’s ‘digital roundabout’ draw a whole new workforce into the area. giants such a