London’s memorials and monuments- the history behind them and the people they honour
On Warwick Lane in the City of London, minutes from St Paul’s Cathedral, you will find the rich, red brick facade of Cutlers’ Hall. This is one of the City of London’s 40 livery halls, home to the Worshipful Company of Cutlers. The Cutlers Company is one of the 111 livery companies in the City. […]
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Austin Friars is a street in London, just to the North East of the Bank of England. In terms of its shape it looks a bit like a wonky ‘T’ and has a couple of little alleyways shooting off from it such as Pinner’s Passage and Austin Friars Passage. You enter through an archway on
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A few of the major streets in London are named after people: Downing Street (Sir George Downing), Shaftesbury Avenue (the Earl of Shaftesbury) and Regent Street (the Prince Regent, future King George IV), to name a few. However, I wanted to highlight five streets in the city, named after lesser-known, but inspiring, figures. Let me
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If you have ever walked around the financial district you would have almost certainly have seen St Mary Woolnoth church. It sits in a prominent position, at the corner of Lombard Street and King William Street, looking towards the busy Bank junction. It is not one however that many have been inside, so I paid
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Since 1066 every monarch, who has had a coronation, has been crowned inside Westminster Abbey and over 30 Kings and Queens of England are buried inside the building. Ever since Edward the Confessor had the first significant Westminster Abbey built in the 1040s, it has been at the heart of the country’s history and traditions.
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