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Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell takes its name from an ancient well, which you can still visit and which still has drinkable water. Inside the New Statesman building in Farringdon Lane, Clerkenwell is the original Well of the Clerks, named after the Parish Clerks of the City of London. The earliest public musical concerts were held in a coal cellar in Britton Street, Clerkenwell. This was soon followed in 1683 by Thomas Sadler's 'musick house', opened in a pleasure garden on the site of some medicinal springs, which became known as Sadler's Wells. There is still an ancient well under the stage of the Sadlers Wells Theatre. Clerkenwell Green, the village centre was a no-man's land in the Middle Ages, acting as a buffer between the Benedictine nunnery of St. Mary and the Priory of the Order of St. John. Oliver Twist was taught to pick pockets by Fagin here on the Green. The Marx Memorial Library situated on the Green was established in 1933 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Marx's death and also as a counter to the burning of books then taking place in Nazi Germany.