The Serle Street and Cook's Court Improvement Act, 1872
WHEREAS that portion of Serle Street in the parish of Saint Clement Danes in the county of Middlesex which lies between Portugal Street and Carey Street in the said parish, and forms one of the chief approaches to the Courts of Justice now in course of erection between Carey Street and the Strand in the said parish, is inconveniently narrow:

And whereas that portion of Carey Street which lies to the west of Serle Street and faces the site of the said Courts of Justice is inconveniently narro...