This street is exactly what is sounds like: a broad wide thoroughfare, carved out parallel to the Marina, then known as Water Street.

Broad street, at sixty feet wide, was imagined as a convenient buffer between the European merchants and the African population in Oko Faji and Ereko to the north and Olowogbowo to the west.

John Glover liked to call the colonial prison “Bridewell,” after the notorious prison in England.