London’s historical hidden gems
Turn off bustling Fleet Street into the much narrower and quieter Bride Lane. Walk past the back of Wren’s 17th century St Bride’s Church… … and you will find a historical hidden gem: the St Bride Foundation. From the early 1700s up until the 1980s, Fleet Street was the centre of London’s thriving newspaper business. […]
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I love a good map. Old maps, I find, are one of the most amazing resources for getting in touch with London’s history and the lives of past Londoners. In the Guildhall Art Gallery you can find a bright, enlarged version of one of the earliest maps of London. It is known as the Agas
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On what is now a quiet residential street in Twickenham you will find the only surviving home of one of Britain’s greatest artists: JMW Turner. Not only that, but he actually designed it himself. Today it is tucked between terraces of Victorian houses but when built, the surrounding area would have looked very different. JMW
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St Magnus the Martyr church is located in a slightly strange position in the modern city, squashed between the busy road of Lower Thames Street and the river. It was once however positioned right at the Northern end of London Bridge, making it one of the City’s most prominent and significant churches. It has a
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If you walk East from London Bridge station along the Thames path, through Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, you will come across a rare medieval historical site. You will find a collection of stone ruins. They may not look wildly exciting today but they are in fact the remains of a medieval manor house, built in 1350,
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