King’s Cross is an absolutely fascinating area, packed with history and industrial heritage. It was once a crucial industrial hub for Victorian London, receiving and distributing goods and coal from the North. After a period of decay and decline after World War Two, it has recently, in the last ten years or so, undergone rapid […]
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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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