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The Inns of Court around Holborn and Temple are true historic gems in London, undiscovered by many. I was delighted to be recently shown around Lincoln’s Inn, located just North of the Royal Courts of Justice in Holborn, by Dunstan, the Inn’s librarian. It was a journey through 600 years of architecture and the stories […]
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I find walking around the City of London utterly fascinating. In some ways it is very modern with its soaring skyscrapers, but also, scattered within it, are incredible historic fragments and architectural wonders from different eras. The City is not just about what is physically there though, but also what has been lost. Many of
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When you are next walking along Fleet Street, if it’s open, I would recommend exploring St Dunstan-in-the-West church. Not only is it beautiful inside, it is gifted with a great number of historical curiosities and details to spot. A Lucky Church St Dunstan-in-the-West first appears in the records here in the 12th century, but it
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I recently had the pleasure of being shown around four of the City of London’s historic livery halls. Livery halls are the headquarters and ceremonial venues of the various livery companies of the City of London. There are 40 halls scattered throughout the City and they are often both architectural hidden gems and packed with
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London, at its heart, is a Roman city, founded just after the Roman invasion in 43AD. Many Roman remnants survive today including sections of the wall, a temple and bathhouses. An important Roman town also needs an amphitheatre. It was assumed that Londinium, as the Roman city was known, must have had an amphitheatre but
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