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Gobbets of the week #9

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Here are links to our top 10 gobbets of London history this week:

1. The Newgate prison executioner’s bell on show at St. Sepulchre’s church. 

2. Cleopatra’s Needle: how an Egyptian obelisk ended up by the Thames. 

  

3. The remarkable 300-year history of the equestrian statue of Charles I at Charing Cross. 

4. How Thomas Cromwell helped John Stow’s father to move house.

  

5. Numismatic detective wizardry: unfolding Restoration London lives from trade tokens. 

6. All of London’s tiny streets have a story: Crown Court, Cheapside. 

7. Nuances of the Northern Line. 

8. Mapping emotions in Victorian London. 

9. How 173 Londoners lost their lives in the Bethnal Green tube disaster. 

  

10. Behind the scenes at Stationers’ Hall (three tweets: one, two and three).

Gobbets of the week #8! 

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 Here are links to our top 10 gobbets of London history this week: 

1. Re-imagining Elizabethan London with Mathew Lyons…

2. The lost world of the alleys. @thegentleauthor ventures into one of Spitalfields’ darkest corners.

  

3. Side by side as equals: Darwin and Wallace in Westminster Abbey. 

4. Cleaning Justice at the Old Bailey…

5. The 7 tallest buildings ever demolished in London…

6. An interactive map of C16 London. 

  

7. A lovely painting of Old London Bridge. 

8. Bedlam’s Big Dig – Crossrail article in the New Yorker…

9. Pipe Dreams: a short film commissioned by the Barbican to mark the passing of Crossrail’s Tunnel Boring Machines beneath the Barbican Estate. 

10. The quirky moles of Sub-Brit visit the Clapham South deep level air raid shelter. 


Gobbets of the week #7

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Here are links to our 10 favourite gobbets of London history this week:

1. Another great London photo from @imagefreak: ‘Big Time’, a long exposure of the Thames by Big Ben.

2. Inked Spires: a lovely project to draw 48 of London’s spires & domes.

3. The 264th anniversary of the death of Thomas Coram, creator of the Foundling Hospital.

4. With news that the Museum of London may relocate to old market buildings in Smithfield, here’s there post on Smithfield’s history.

5. The story of the notorious Ratcliffe Highway murders.

6. Trinity Square Gardens: the ‘a London inheritance’ blogger takes another journey back in time via his Father’s photographs.

7. William Caxton’s house in the almonry on Thorney Island, Westminster.

8. The ruins of Christ Church Greyfriars and the grave of a she-wolf. Another great post from the Flickering Lamps blog.

9. The story behind a Thames Foreshore find: a London tradesman’s token of 1666.

 

10. Westminster Hall decked out for the coronation banquet of George II.