Removals Holborn
Removals, Storage, Man and Van, Office Moves and House Clearance in Holborn and WC1, WC2 and EC, Central London, London.
Allen & Young are a Moving and Storage Company based in London and we regularly move clients to and from the Holborn area. We offer Removals, Storage, Packing Services, Man and Van Hire, House Clearance and Removal packaging such as boxes, tape and bubble wrap can also be purchased though our site. We also provide a full range of Business Services such as office moves, light haulage, furniture delivery and assembly. Although offer the full range of removal services and frequently undertake large moves, we specialise in light and medium sized removals, perfect for apartments, flats, studios, bedsits, houses and moving offices. In addition we offer some specialist removal services such as comprehensive relocations for senior citizens planning to move into residential care homes, nursing homes or sheltered accommodation in Holborn.
If you need a remover, a man and van, some storage, packing or house clearance in the Holborn area, simply call or email Allen and Young today.
About Holborn
Holborn is an area of Central London and is located across postal districts WC1, WC2 and EC1. Holborn is also the name of the area’s principal east-west street, running from St Giles’s High Street as High Holborn to Gray’s Inn Road to Holborn Viaduct, crossing the borders of the City of Westminster, London Borough of Camden and the City of London. Allen and Young Ltd carry out all moving services including removals, man and van, storage, packing and house clearance in the Holborn area.
The name Holborn is derived from the Old Bourne (“old brook”), a small stream which ran from near Temple Bar to the River Fleet below the present day Holborn Viaduct. However at this point the Fleet itself ran in a small valley and the Middle English “hol” for hollow, with bourne as before, has been considered as the origin.
Charles Dickens took up residence in Furnivall’s Inn, now covered by the old Prudential building now named as ‘Holborn Bars’ designed by Alfred Waterhouse. The Bars were the boundary of the City of London until 1994 but only the area of the south-side of Holborn was under its jurisdiction. Dickens also put his character ‘Pip’, in Great Expectations, in residence at Barnard’s Inn opposite, the current home of Gresham College, and Staple Inn notable for being used as the promotional image for “Old Holborn” tobacco. The three of these were Inns of Chancery. The most northerly of the Inns of Court, Gray’s Inn, is in Holborn as is Lincoln’s Inn. This demonstrates the area’s connection with the legal professions since mediaeval times.
Over the coming years the area began to diversify and become recognisable as the modern street. A plaque stands at number 120 commemorating Thomas Earnshaw’s invention of the Marine chronometer, one of the catalysts which facilitated long-distance travel.
In the modern era High Holborn has become a centre for entertainment venues. Twenty two inns or taverns are recorded in the 1860s. Originally Weston’s Music Hall, the Holborn Empire stood between 1857 and 1960 when it was pulled down after structural damage sustained in the Blitz. The theatre premièred the first full-length feature film in 1914, The World, the Flesh and the Devil, a 50-minute melodrama filmed in Kinemacolour. At the corner of Hatton Garden was the old family department store of Gamages. Until 1992, the London Weather Centre was located in the street. In the eighteenth century, Holborn was the location of the infamous Mother Clap’s molly house.
On Holborn Circus lies the Church of St Andrew, an ancient Guild Church, that survived the Great Fire of London. However, the parochial authority decided, nevertheless, to commission Sir Christopher Wren to rebuild it. Although the nave was destroyed in the Blitz, the reconstruction was faithful to Wren’s original. In the middle of the circus there is a large equestrian statue of Prince Albert by Charles Bacon (1874) the City’s official monument to him. It was presented by Charles Oppenheim, of the Diamond Trading Company De Beers, whose headquarters building is on nearby Charterhouse Street.
In the early twenty-first century, Holborn has been the site of new offices and hotels, which have exploited its excellent public transport links (Holborn underground station is the junction of the Central and Piccadilly lines), and its strategic location between the City of London and the West End. The Metropolitan Borough of Holborn was created in 1899. It was abolished in 1965 and its area formed part of the London Borough of Camden. Read more…
