Brooke Street, Holborn

Brooke Street, Holborn: In this street the poet Chatterton put an end to his life with arsenic, on August 24th 1770, at the young age of 17. It has been mostly rebuilt and at the end of it is the well known church of St. Alban's, Holborn with its memorial chapel to Mackonochie. Adjoining this street in Holborn are the huge palatial buildings of Holborn Bars, built as the headquarters of the Prudential Assurance Company.