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Can anyone help please, When were one-way streets first introduced to London?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The Royal Institution gave London its first one-way street. A night out at the Royal Institution was one of the hottest tickets in town. Charles Dickens, Prince Albert and every other Victorian celebrity fought for front-row tickets to hear Humphry Davy and his fellow pioneers of science. Their carriages so thoroughly clogged Albemarle Street that in 1808 they were instructed to proceed one way only.
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you could try looking here seems to indicate an earlier date
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