London’s Alleys: Mills Court, EC3

This is one of those industrial alleys that Shoreditch is cleaning up into decorative residential areas, but still has plenty of character left to it.
The area was fields until the 1750s, when Charlotte Road was laid out with two blocks of houses and Mills Court between them.
R Horwood Map 1799
Although pure speculation, it was possibly named after a mill in the area when it was fields.
Although the houses with back gardens have long since been replaced with larger industrial properties, the T-s