Tyburn with prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City, via St Giles in the Fields and Oxford Street. After the late 18th century, when public executions were no longer carried out at Tyburn, they were carried out at Newgate Prison itself and at Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Southwark. The first recorded execution took place at a site next to the stream in 1196. William Fitz Osbert, populist leader who played a major role in an 1196 popular revolt in London, was cornered in the church of St Mary le Bow. He was dragged naked behind a horse to Tyburn, where
Bow Common Booth described it as 'worse than almost any district in London.' Slums were cleared during the course of the 20th century, most hastened by bomb damage in the Second World War when Bow was targeted for it being an important artery, to feed the demands of the city, at that time. St Paul's Church was rebuilt in the fashionable 'new brutalism' style of1960 (replacing one damaged in the war) and is now a Grade II* listed building. Bow Common Bow Common is a locality that includes part of the Mile End and Bromley-by-Bow areas of the London Borough of Tower