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Crutched Friars
The Priory of the Friars of the Holy Cross from the Agas Map around 1550 None of city’s monasteries has been obliterated quite as...
Richard Taylor
Jun 5
5 min read
Where the Great Fire Stopped
The Great Fire of London by Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1797 According to an old saying, the Great Fire started in Pudding Lane and...
Richard Taylor
Jun 3
11 min read
Blitz
In 1946, historian William Kent undertook a survey of London’s heritage lost as a result of the Blitz. This culminated in a book ‘The...
Richard Taylor
Jun 2
12 min read
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