Quote#Wisdom
Great and Little Wild Streets are called respectively Old and New…
Quote byWalter Besant · 1836–1901
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Fascination of London: Holborn and Bloomsbury, with Geraldine Mitton (1903) , p. 29.
English (original)
Great and Little Wild Streets are called respectively Old and New Weld Streets by Strype. Weld House stood on the site of the present Wild Court, and was during the reign of James II occupied by the Spanish Embassy. In Great Wild Street Benjamin Franklin worked as a journeyman printer.
— Walter Besant
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