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Orange Street


Oxford Street. (W1) So called from the colouring of the stable of the King's Mews. Thomas Holcroft, the dramatist, was born in this street. Here, also, was the school in which Edmund Kean learned his A B C. (Wheatley's London Past and Present, vol. II, p. 615)

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