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[[Image:GrubStreet-London 300dpi.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=People congregate at the entrance to a narrow street, overlooked by two four-storey buildings.  Each floor of the right-most building projects further over the street than the floor below.  At the corner of each building, shops advertise their wares.  A cart is visible down the street, and one man appears to be carrying a large leg of meat.|19th-century ''Grub Street'' (latterly Milton Street), as pictured in ''(contracted; show full)
[[File:Sweedons passage grub street.jpg|left|thumb|A late 18th-century illustration of a property on Sweedon's Passage, Grub Street]]
An early use of the land surrounding Grub Street 
may have beenwas [[Archery]].  In ''Records of St. Giles' Cripplegate'' (1883), the author describes an order made by [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] to convert Finsbury Fields from gardens, to fields for archery practice,<ref>{{Harvnb|Denton|1883|p=109}}</ref> however in [[Elizabethan]] times archery became unfashionable, and Grub Street is described as largely deserted, "except for low gambling houses and bowling-alleys&mdash;or, as we should call them, skittle-grounds.&qu(contracted; show full)
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