In 2015, in an attempt to preserve our local colloquial heritage regarding Gibraltar’s old street names, the Ministry for Transport, Traffic & Technical Services, which has responsibility for street signs throughout Gibraltar, embarked upon a project erecting new historical street plaques with old street names and a brief description explaining why these streets were named as such.

The Ministry for Transport worked very closely with a number of prominent local historians, and also received the support of the Gibraltar Heritage Trust, to produce an initial series of 6 street signs.

Following the success of the first phase, the Ministry of Business, Tourism and Transport launched the second installment of five new sites in early 2020.

Street names in Gibraltar only became official in the 1970’s, when street signs (written in English) were first erected by the Police. Until then, streets had no official names and were therefore referred to either by their function or relevance, after some landmark or building on the street, or after an important property owner living on that street.

Included in phase 1.