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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.

Swan Upping at Cookham , by Stanley Spencer

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

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

7. Can you identify these London ceilings?

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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