Historical street oddities in London
When walking London’s streets we are nearly always surrounded by history. It is a part of everyday life and therefore sometimes easy to overlook. When looking for history it is worth looking, not just at the buildings, but also the pavements. A good example are old surviving cattle troughs. Today they are generally used as […]
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You may well be familiar with the Holborn Viaduct, an impressive Victorian construction acting as a bridge over Farringdon Street linking Newgate Street and Holborn. Did you know though that it was once home to the world’s first ever coal-fired power station? The Holborn Viaduct Down the Western edge of London once ran the Fleet
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Anyone that lives in London or has visited the city has almost certainly had a walk along the South Bank. If you have, you will have walked past a small park, most likely without paying it much notice. Next time you are in the area though, spend a bit of time there, because it has
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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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