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snip from the agas map of london with the london stone marked

Myths and Legends of the London Stone

07/12/2025 donbrown 0

Embedded into the wall of 111 Cannon Street, just over the road from the railway station, is a portland stone receptacle around a metre and […]

elysyng spital tower in the city of london

Elsyng Chapel Tower on London Wall

28/05/2025 donbrown 0

Elsyng Spital tower, once the church for, in turn, a nunnery, a hospital, an Augustinian priory, a grand house, a college and the parish church of St Alphage’s.

clapham common temperance fountain

Clapham Common’s Temperance Fountain

08/12/2024 donbrown 0

Step onto Clapham Common from the eponymous tube station and looming in front of you is a large drinking fountain. By the German sculptor August […]

The Mysterious Panyer Boy of St Paul’s

17/09/2024 donbrown 0

When yu have sought the Citty Round, Yet still this is the highest Ground. August the 27 1688 Step out of the tube at St Paul’s […]

The Camels of Eastcheap

01/08/2021 donbrown 0

Eastcheap – from an old english word for market (and “east” to distinguish it from the original Westcheap, now ‘Cheapside’) – runs from Monument tube […]

The Monument and the Shard

Wren’s Monument to the 1666 Great Fire

21/10/2016 donbrown 0

Climb the 311 stairs today to the top of the Monument and the the 21st century City spreads out around you. To the north the […]

The Moorgate Lighthouse

26/01/2015 donbrown 1

Stroll up Moorgate Street from the Bank of England, and about a third of the way along on your right, look up and, set into […]