Tooley Street

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 245

Tooley Street, a street in Southwark, at the foot of London Bridge, derives its name from a corruption of St Olave, a church here, and is famous through Canning's story of its three tailors who began their petition to parliament with 'We, the people of England.'

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