Billingsgate Escorts

The area of Billingsgate still maintains much of its illustrious past in its architectural splendour and the down to earth character of this Ward in the City Of London. This is a great location to meet with one of our Sophisticated, Gregarious and Amazonian London escorts to indulge in a pleasurable rendezvous, which we are sure you will want to enjoy again and again.

The modern day Billingsgate was formally known as Blynesgate and Byllynsgate which reportedly originated with a water gate on the Thames. Goods were landed here for onward transit and the area became known as the Billingsgate Wharf, part of the London docks close to Lower Thames Street.

Early records show that Billingsgate Market was a general market for corn, coal, iron, wine, salt, pottery, fish and miscellaneous goods up to and around the 16th century. At this point in time the neighbouring streets adapted to become a specialist fish market. By the 16th century, most merchant vessels had become too large to pass the original London Bridge and Billingsgate, with its deeply recessed harbour, replaced Queenhithe as the most important landing-place in the City.

The ward includes Pudding Lane, where in 1666, the Great Fire of London began. A sign was erected upon the house in which it began:

Here, by the permission of Heaven, hell broke loose upon this protestant city, from the malicious hearts of barbarous Papists, by the hand of their agent Hubert, who confessed, and on the ruins of this place declared the fact, for which he was hanged, viz. That here began the dreadful fire, which is described and perpetuated on and by the neighbouring pillar, erected Anno 1680, in the mayoralty of Sir Patience Ward, knight.

Billingsgate Fish Market was officially established through an Act of Parliament at the end of the 17th Century. The act stipulated the following conditions bestowed on the Market and dictated that the market should be a free and open market for all sorts of fish whatsoever. Oranges, lemons, and Spanish onions were also landed on the quay, alongside the other main commodities, coal and salt. In 1849, the fish market was relocated off the streets into its own riverside building, which was subsequently demolished in the late 19th Century and replaced by an arcaded market hall. The new building was the design of the City architect Horace Jones and built by John Mowlem in 1875.

In 1982, the fish market was again relocated to new buildings close to Canary Wharf in eastern part of the City of London. The original riverside market hall building underwent refurbishment to provide office accommodation which had become in great demand for this area of London.

The ward contains the Customs House and the Watermen's Hall, built in 1780 and the only surviving Georgian guild hall. Centennium House in Lower Thames Street has Roman baths within their basement foundations. The ward contains two churches St Mary-at-Hill and St Margaret Pattens, but another St George's Botolph Lane was demolished in 1904.