Monthly Archives: September 2015

Gobbets of the week #25

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Here are links to the top 10 gobbets of London history we liked this week: 

1. Moving a Wren tower from the Square Mile to Twickenham.

2. The man who made Soho glow. 

3. Samuel Pepys at St Olave’s. 

 

Samuel Pepys’ monument at St Olave Hart Street

 
4. London’s rumoured secret tunnels! 

5. The sightlines of St Paul’s Cathedral 

 

St Paul’s at dawn from New Change

 
6. The Blitz and bomb damage maps. 

7. Two pieces from the Guildhall Library blog: Magna Carta and Surveys and plans of Victorian London’s docks and wharves. 

 

The Magna Carta at the Guildhall

 
8. Experiences of the theatre in post-Medieval London.

9. A Tudor hunting lodge on the outskirts of London 

10. Housing ‘poor men‘ in Greenwich. 

Gobbets of the week #24

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Here are links to the top 10 gobbets of London history we liked this week: 

1. A brief but lovely history of London maps.

  

2. Visscher redrawn. The panorama of London 400 years on. 

3. Agatha Christie’s London. 

4. More Cries of London from @thegentleauthor. 

5. The Barbican Estate: a town reconstructed from its cellars. 

  

6. Regency London, John Nash and the Third Reich: visiting Carlton House Terrace. 

7. Battle of Britain: the Crisis. 

8. First ever public tours of Henry V’s chapel. 

9. Postman’s Park – one of London’s most unusual memorials. 

  

…and finally, two pieces on London’s Northern Heights…

10. Highgate’s hospital history and Hampstead Heath Pergola. 

Gobbets of the week #23

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It’s been a big week for anniversaries. While the USA remembers the tragedy of 11 September 2001, in London this week marks the anniversaries of the Great Fire, a Zeppelin raid and the start of the Blitz. And of course in ‘other news’ there has been the small matter of the Queen becoming Britain’s longest serving monarch. 

1. My City of Ruins: Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn recount the aftermath of the Great Fire.

  

2. The centenary of the 3rd Zeppelin raid on London. 

3. On 7th September 1940: a survivor recounts the bombing of Columbia Road Market. 

4. Peter Watts recounts the Legacy of the Blitz

  

5. Long to Reign Over Us: the Queen’s latest milestone celebrated by St Paul’s Cathedral and the Telegraph. And an explanation of the Crown’s relationship with the City of London. 

  

6. C S Forester and South London 

7. Lost London – the Great Conduit

8. Down House: Charles Darwin’s Forever Home. 

9. Cries of London: the curious legacy of Francis Wheatley. 

  

10. Spirit of Soho Mural: celebrating the history and characters of Soho.