Just around the corner from the Bunhill Fields burial ground, where both John Bunyan and William Blake (not to mention Thomas Bayes) are buried is the street in the photo above. It's an ordinary East London view but is also one of the few remaining London streets where you can still see wooden cobble stones, the street is called "Chequer St".
They used to make these cobbles from wood rather than stone as the noise from horses and carriages was much less that way, even in the 19th century people used to complain about noise pollution!
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