Carlisle Street

 When I was in London I went to Carlisle Street to check out #19, the house where Sarah, Mary Anne and Charity Cockram were living in 1851. The house is now an Irish pub, a tiny place with low ceilings and signs outside warning patrons not to bother the surrounding businesses when they spill out onto the street. The area around Soho Square, off which Carlisle Street runs, is mostly home to media companies. The pub is called The Toucan (not very Irish) and has been there since 1993. It's clearly the original house though. Aound the corner in Soho Square at # 6/7/8 used to be the Soho Bazaar. As Sarah and her sister were dressmakers, I can imagine that they may have had a stall at the bazaar, selling gloves and handkerchiefs, but I don't know for sure.

On Dean Street, which crosses Carlisle Street a few doors down from the Toucan, is another pub named for Karl Marx, who was living there in 1851. Considering that the easiest route to the reading room at the British Museum was along Carlisle Street, I'm sure the Cockram family saw Marx frequently.