This book is intended to be the first of a series documenting London
Streets and a thousand years of their respective histories. Clearly some
routes were only trackways, pathways or even fields but where Londoners
have existed, worked, fought, traded, played, lived and died on the site
it's fascinating to mark the journey, growth, sights and sounds of these
iconic London thoroughfares. Denmark Street wasn't built until the
1680s, but fascinating characters from all walks of life have been
active on the site since the 1000s at least. Royalty, singers,
musicians, highwaymen, murderers, thieves, arsonists, inventors,
pioneers, regicides, politicians, revolutionaries, songwriters, poets
and artists are all part of the colourful past of the street that became
known as Tin Pan Alley.