Cromer Street#Pubs

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Cromer Street was formerly called Lucas Street and was renamed in 1818. In the earlier 1840s, it was described as being occupied by a class of 'more or less poor' 'small tradesmen and artisan lodgers' in densely crowded lodgings.{{cite book|title=On the excess of diseases in large towns, and its causes|editor=Thomas Wakley|publisher=J. Onwhyn|location=London|year=1843|volume=2|pages=775|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F_sBAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Cromer+Street%22+London&pg=RA4-PA775|accessdate=28 January 2008}} On it is Church of the Holy Cross, which was built by Joseph Peacock and dedicated in 1888.

105 houses were built in the street in the early 19th century, but it has largely been rebuilt and consists of over 1,000 council and housing properties, mostly pre-1919 railway tenements of fine architectural qualities on the north side, and on the south a "striking sequence of nine 6-storey slabs of flats of 1949–1951 by Hening & Chitty... They were singled out by Pevsner in 1952 as some of the first good post-war flats" The area has suffered deprivation and crime andThe Buildings of England. London 4:North. Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner. Yale University Press 2002 in 1996, was the subject of a £46 million regeneration project.{{cite book|last=Colquhoun|first=Ian|title=Design out crime:creating safe and sustainable." communities|publisher=Architectural Press|location=London|year=2003|page=284|isbn=978-0-7506-5492-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BHQt9WXrrs4C&dq=%22Cromer+Street%22+London&pg=PA284|accessdate=28 January 2008}}

Nowadays there is a very large Bangladeshi Muslim population living in the area.[http://guide.muslimsinbritain.org/guide3.html#3.3.2 Muslims in Britain]

The nearest tube stations are King's Cross St Pancras, Russell Square, and Euston.

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The street has two pubs: The Lucas Arms at the east end, on the junction with Gray's Inn Road, and The Boot at the west end, near the junction with Judd Street. The Boot was the headquarters of the Gordon rioters and later was used as a location of some of the action in Charles Dickens' book, Barnaby Rudge; it was rebuilt in 1801. Kenneth Williams filmed a sequence in The Boot for the 1980s TV programme Comic Roots, since it was there that his parents and their friends met; when he was a child, he lived at No. 14 Cromer House.{{cite book|title=A Dickens Dictionary|editor=Alexander John Philip, William Laurence Gadd|publisher=Ayer Publishing|year=1970|edition=2nd|pages=330|isbn=978-0-8337-2735-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XC0TW0lmqCkC&dq=%22Cromer+Street%22+London&pg=PA330|accessdate=28 January 2008}} The Lucas Arms has been used for meetings of political organisations.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UKAr0rNGfuAC&pg=PA19|page=19|title=Ulster's White Negroes|author= Fionnbarra Ó Dochartaigh|year=1994|isbn=9781873176672}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cTtVDR7Dxu4C&pg=PA64|page=64|title=What's Left? What's Right?: A Political Journey |author= Muriel Seltman|isbn=9781434958211|author-link= Muriel Seltman}}

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