Millenium Bridge
The Millennium Bridge, officially known as the London Millennium Footbridge, is a steel suspension bridge for pedestrians crossing the...
Hoop and Grape
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....
122 Leadenhall Street
122 Leadenhall Street, or the Leadenhall Building, is a 225 m (737 ft) tall building on Leadenhall Street in London. The commercial...
Lombard Street
Lombard Street has its origins in one of the main Roman roads of Londinium. It later formed a plot of land granted by King Edward I (1272...
The Watch House
Overlooking the graveyard of St. Sepulchre's in Giltspur Street, Holborn, is this old watch house. This was built with the increase of...
Scratching Fanny of Cock Lane
The Cock Lane ghost was a purported haunting that attracted mass public attention in 1762. The location was an apartment in Cock Lane, a...
King Henry VIII Statue
This is the only outside statue of King Henry the VIII in London. It can be viewed, sited on top of the main gateway of London's oldest...
The Murder of Robert Pakington
At around 6am on Monday 13th November 1536, Robert Packington left his house in London’s Cheapside, to attend early Mass in the Mercers’...
124-126 Cheapside
Cheapside was the centre of London retailing for centuries until the 19th century. In Medieval English, 'cheap' roughly translated as...
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...
