Webb Patent Sewer Ventilating Gas Lamp
One of the last remnants of the ingenuity of the Victorian era, around 100 years old, this was designed to burn off methane from the...
Caryatides of Rotherhithe Old Town Town
These Caryatides sit in Southwark Park. Originally flanking the main entrance of the old Rotherhithe Town Hall, later a library. The...
Floris of London
One of the oldest shops in London is the Floris perfume shop, founded in 1730 by Juan Famenias Floris and his wife Elizabeth, who began...
The Hoops and Grapes
One of three of the last remaining timber frame buildings surviving from before the fire of London is the pub know as the Hoop and Grape....
The Murder of Robert Packington
At around 6am on Monday 13th November 1536, Robert Packington left his house in London’s Cheapside, to attend early Mass in the Mercers’...
London’s insatiable appetite for tobacco!
Though it’s rarely acknowledged now, London was once the smoking capital of the world, awash with tobacco houses! Tobacco was introduced...
The Hardy Tree
The cemetery alongside London’s St. Pancras Old Church, which is considered by many to be one of England’s oldest places of Christian...
Monument to Hodge the Cat
“I never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat… I recollect him one day scrambling up Dr. Johnson’s breast,...
Samuel Johnson Statue
England’s most famous writer of the 18th century - and creator of the first English dictionary - looks very cuddly and amusing company in...
St. Andrew by the Wardrobe
The following text is taken from the church of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe website. The plain design of Wren’s last city church attracts...
