Smithfield
London
EC1
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These houses at Cloth Fair show a quieter alternative to the bustling City, set as they are along a fairly domestic street. The area gives a feeling of how alive the whole City of London once was before it was changed by money, fire and war – a place where long-established institutions, trades, houses, markets and people of all kinds mingled together. Each of the houses has a staircase, pleasant rooms and old joinery. Number 43 was once home to the poet Sir John Betjeman.