Green’s Dictionary of Slang

paviour’s workshop n.

the street.

1785		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Pavior’s workshop, the street.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: Paviour’s Workshop. The street.
1808		B. Bradshaw Hist. of Billy Bradshaw 17: Being now fairly tiled in the paviour’s workshop, I was obliged to take up with the best accommodation.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1796].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Pavier’s Workshop. The street.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1858		A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 268: He was ready for anything, either to sing ballads in the ‘paviors’ work-shop’ (streets), or to ‘sneak down an area in the hopes of purloining a silver ‘pap feeder’ (spoon), or even a teapot, if it was at hand.