London’s Alleys: Silver Place, W1

A short wide alley in Soho lined with Georgian and Victorian buildings, but also a link to one of the 19th-centuries worst terrorist attacks.
This patch of Soho was once fields, known as Colman Hedge Close, but started being developed in the second half of the 17th-century. The layout of the area hasn’t changed much, but the street names have. When first laid out, the alley was known as Pulteney Court, but most of the streets in the area were renamed in the mid 19th-century, and that&rsquo