a tavern known as blossom's inn once stood on the western side of the street on a large site on the corner with trump street from the fourteenth century until 1855. in the 1750s it became the london base for james pickford, founder of the pickfords removal firm. archaeological excavations on the site in 2001 recovered roman remains. the site became a parcels depot for the great eastern railway in the nineteenth century before being renamed blossom's inn again in the twentieth century.