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Bull and Mouth Inn.-On the south side of Bull and Mouth Street, in Aldersgate Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).
Burnt in the Fire and rebuilt.
Rebuilt about 1830-1 as the Queen's Hotel. Archt., Savage : demolished 1887.
The inn is said to have derived its name from the sign of the Boulogne mouth or harbour, of which the present form is a corruption.
The site is now occupied by some of the new General Post Office Buildings, erected 1890-5.
Bull and Mouth Street.-West out of St. Martin le Grand to King Edward Street, in Farringdon Ward Within and Aldersgate Ward (O.S. 1880).
First mention : O. and M. 1677.
Removed for the erection of the new General Post Office Buildings. So named from the Bull and Mouth Inn there (q.v.). See Stewksley's Street.
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