Farriner's bakery stood immediately opposite the location of the present Monument, on the eastern side of Pudding Lane. The site was paved over when Monument Street was built in 1886–87, but is marked by a plaque on the wall of nearby Farynors House, placed there by the Bakers' Company in 1986.[1]
Pudding Lane was given its name by the butchers of Eastcheap Market, who used it to transport "pudding" or offal down to the river to be taken away by waste barges. There was a wharf at its lower end called Rothersgate (from the "rothers" or cattle that were landed there), and it was also known as Rother Lane.[2] Another name for it was Red Rose Lane, from a shop sign that once hung in it.[3]
Pudding Lane was one of the world's first one-way streets.[4] An order restricting cart traffic to one-way travel on Pudding Lane and 16 other lanes around Thames Street was issued in 1617, an idea not copied until Albemarle Street became a one-way street in 1800.
Pudding Lane People. Illustrated by Janet Laura Scott. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1926. OCLC11418973
Pudding Lane and Farriner's bakery feature prominently in the 2016 musical show Bumblescratch.[5]
In the 1982 Doctor Who episode "The Visitation", aliens visit 17th century London and cause an explosion in Pudding Lane, which is revealed to be the true source of the Great Fire.