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61 Hatton Garden takes its name from Sir Christopher Hatton who was Chancellor to, and favourite of, Elizabeth I. He would write, “Your heart is full of rare and royal faith, the writings of your hand do raise me to joy unspeakable”. She found him to be “a good dancer”. In 1577, Elizabeth formally granted him the Bishop of Ely’s garden and orchard in Ely Place. This led to its name being changed from Ely Palace to Hatton Garden. The Bishop was understandably furious.
62 In 1531 Ely Palace played host to an immense five day banquet for Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, where 100 sheep, 51 cows and 24 oxen, 91 pigs, 444 pigeons, 168 swans, 720 chickens and 4,000 larks were eaten. (It was around this time Henry was turning from an athletic young king into the larger man we now picture him as. His physical change was actually due to sporting injuries rather than the sheer quantity of food he ate.)
63 In theory at least, any policeman chasing fugitives into Ely Place was required to seek permission before entering the street. It was the London home of the Bishops of Ely (in Cambridgeshire) and until recently was considered to be technically part of Cambridge. It is the last privately owned street in London.
64 Bleeding Heart Yard is named after the seventeenth century myth of Lady Elizabeth Hatton, daughter of Christopher Hatton. Legend has it, Lady Hatton made a pact with the devil to secure wealth, position, and a mansion in Holborn. During the housewarming of the mansion, the devil danced with her, then tore out her heart, which was found, still beating, in the courtyard the next morning.
65 Hatton Garden is the centre of the London Diamond Trade, and home to the famous Hatton Garden Raid of 2015, where £15 million was stolen from number 88-89. The average age of the gang was 63. The ringleader was 77 and had turned up to the raid on the bus, using somebody else’s pensioner Freedom Pass. The getaway driver was 75, suffered from arthritis, diabetes and memory loss. Billy ‘the Fish’ Lincoln was a 60-year-old with two replacement hips who had to keep leaving the dock to go to the loo during the trial.
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Hatton Garden faces the future
The BID acknowledges that the famous street is changing Hatton Garden – London’s jewellery centre for hundreds of years – is rapidly changing. With Crossrail on its way in 2021, rents are increasin…
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