Friday Street, London

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Friday Street is a small street in the City of London, England.

The street is reported to have been named either after a fish market held on Fridays (which was traditionally a day of abstinence from meat),{{cite book|title=The Amateur Historian's Guide to Medieval and Tudor London, 1066-1600|author=Sarah Valente Kettler, Carole Trimble|page=[https://archive.org/details/amateurhistorian00kett_1/page/151 151]|publisher=Capital Books|year=2001|isbn=978-1-892-12332-9|url=https://archive.org/details/amateurhistorian00kett_1/page/151}} or a corruption of the Old English word {{Lang|ang|Frigdaeges}}. It originally ran between Cheapside and Old Fish Street and was one of the principal thoroughfares of the Bread Street Ward in Mediaeval London.John Noorthouck, 'Book 2, Ch. 9: Bread Street Ward', in A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark (London, 1773), pp. 558-560. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/new-history-london/pp558-560 [accessed 29 December 2019].{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=309}} It was partially cleared to construct Queen Victoria Street, and following damage in World War II, only the section between Queen Victoria Street and Cannon Street remains.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=309}}

The street once had three churches: St Margaret Moses, St John the Evangelist and St Matthew. All three were destroyed in the Great Fire of London. St Matthew was rebuilt following the fire, but subsequently demolished.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=309}}

Bracken House sits at the corner of Friday Street and Cannon Street. It was designed by Albert Richardson as the main office and print works of the Financial Times.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=309}}