Gobbets of the week #20

Here are links to the10 gobbets of London history that we liked most this week:

1. The Victorian splendour of Highgate Cemetery. 

  
2. New podcast from the Oxford DNB: Dennis Severs, creator of 18 Folgate Street. 

  
3. The chapel of St Thomas-a-Becket on Old London Bridge. 

  
4. Where the Knollys Roses grow: the lovely ‘secret garden’ of Seething Lane. 

5. Just what we needed! The London Walker’s Tube Map! 

6. A visit to the old church at Perivale. 

7. As another Ashes series comes to a close, a look at some of The Oval’s finest moments. 

8. To Hell in a handcart? A final journey revisited: Newgate to Tyburn.

9. London’s oldest public drinking fountain.

10. A walk from Lambeth Palace to Waterloo Station, using Bradshaw’s Guide. 

More? If you like our weekly gobbets, you might also like some of our longer posts on London’s history: 

Magnus, the Monument and Mice eating Cheese 

Fishwives and Firestarters: a load of old Billingsgate

London’s Bare Necessities 
 

Gobbets of the week #19

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

1. A spectacular Resurrection Stone at St Andrew, Holborn. 

  

  
2. Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower: from doom to desire. 

3. Vintage Videos of London released! 

4. In pictures: London’s lost department stores. 

5. Nine quiet places to explore in Fleet Street, Temple and Holborn. 

6. St Bartholomew’s Gatehouse: a rare survivor of pre-Fire London. 

  
7. London’s watery streets: from Jacob’s Well to Lamb’s Conduit. 

8. St Dunstan-in-the-East’s lovely garden. 

  
9. The site of Chaucer’s Tabard Inn

10. London Calling: a great image of Tower Bridge from @Fredtography

Gobbets of the week #18

Swan Upping at Cookham , by Stanley Spencer

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

1. 300 years of Doggett’s Coat and Badge! 

  

2. Swan Upping with the Vintners’ Company! 

3. Inigo Jones’ grand portico on Old St Paul’s Cathedral. 

4. The Strand, 1824. Fire at Mr Martin the Sausage-Maker’s.

5. The mysterious Mrs Gillray 

6. A part of Old London Bridge

7. Can you identify these London ceilings? 

8. Remembering East End Jewish Bookshops.

9. One for Arsenal fans: the North Bank, Highbury under construction in 1913. 

10. Tower Bridge – with a man up the flagpole! 

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