London’s Alleys: Dereham Place, EC2

This is a passage that winds its way around the backs of Shoreditch with a mix of 1950s factory buildings and modern flats.
The passage also has a complicated naming history.
The western two-thirds was originally called Norfolk Gardens, and the eastern part was called New Norfolk Street. Then in the 19th-century, both passages were renamed as Norfolk Place and again renamed later as Dereham Place, with a line of bollards where the two roads met. The names were split again in the 20th-century, to