Honey Lane Market

[2] It was built at the south end of Milk Street on the site of the parish church of St Mary Magdalen and All Hallows Honey Lane after the areas destruction in the Great Fire of London in 1666, and the market took over the area.

[4] By 1835, the City of London School was built on part of the market site facing Milk Street on the corner with Russia Row.

[5] It was paid for with money bequeathed for the purpose by John Carpenter, city clerk in the reign of King Henry V.[6] The school grew rapidly and in 1883 it moved to larger quarters on the Victoria Embankment.

[8] Honey Lane was completely destroyed and the surrounding area seriously damaged by German bombing on 29 December 1940.

[9] The current Honey Lane, a breezeway, is approximately 100 feet east of the old one and connects Cheapside and Trump Street.

Honey Lane Market on Richard Horwood 's 1799 map.
London Blitz bomb damage map, c. 1945 (purple: damaged beyond repair; scarlet: seriously damaged, doubtful if repairable; other colours: lower levels of damage) [ 1 ]
The current Honey Lane, slightly to the east of the original.