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The Angel…
or Mr. Bianchi’s superior Weavers Arms, Angel Street.
I wonder what Mr. John Bianchi, who ran the Weavers Arms
on Angel Street in 1849, would have made of his pub today.
Like quite a few of our pubs, it has changed its name and
undergone more than a few makeovers in the last couple of
centuries.
Perhaps the biggest change Mr. Bianchi would have noticed
is the total absence of the lodging houses which ran down Angel
Street leading off to that most notorious of slums which was
Angel Meadow.
The street was narrow and many of those lodging houses
were packed with people history has forgotten, if it ever took
notice of them in the first place.
At number 44 in 1901 there were thirty two of them, all
male, ranging from William Paxton aged 22 from Wigan, who
described himself as a street hawker, to Thomas Reed from
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