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121: 204: 771: 22: 595: 781: 167:, who in 1564 made a charitable contribution of £1,500, an enormous sum in those days, for the rebuilding of the Holborn Conduit. The Conduit (a cistern) was fed by a dam across a tributary of the River Fleet. The Conduit also supplied water to the nearby 171:
area by a system of pipes. Lambe also provided 120 pails to enable poor women to make a living selling the water. The tributary ran west to east along the north side of Long Yard, followed the curved course of Roger Street and joined the Fleet near
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opened in 1613 and the conduit was demolished in 1746. The remains of the head of the conduit can be seen on the side of a 1950s building on the corner between Lamb's Conduit Street and Long Yard. On the stone, an inscription reads:
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Lamb's Conduit, the property of the City of London. This pump was erected for the benefit of the Publick
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lived together with his wife Mary at 7 Lamb's Conduit Street, where they hosted the American anarchist
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used the architecture of Lamb's Conduit Street to arouse her "historic sense" in the 1922 novel
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Fountain commemorating Lamb's Conduit, situated at the junction of Lamb's Conduit Street and
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Wilson, Jean Moorcroft. "Virginia Woolf. Life and London.A biography of place".
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A fountain at the north end of Lamb's Conduit Street, at the junction with
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food cooperative. There are many independent traders along the street.
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An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre
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