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

1. The London that might have been: architectural wonders (and monstrosities) that never got past the drawing board.

2. Slashing throats for 170 years: the ‘real’ Sweeney Todd.

3. As we approach the 800th Lord Mayor’s show, a video of the 1967 event...

4. …another showing just how they get the Lord Mayor’s coach out of the Museum of London…

5. …and a song about the Lord Mayor’s coachman!

6. Two London artists from London Historians: Celebrating Hogarth and Gillray’s Ghost.

7. The grizzly story of Bunhill Fields.

9. More ‘from the City to the Sea’: part IV – the Thames Estuary; part V – the Thames at night.

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!

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.

9. The site of Chaucer’s Tabard Inn.

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

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