At the cross roads the Standard in Cornhill formerly stood. Removed 1674.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC3, Cornhill, 59-60
The plaque is actually high up on the Gracechurch Street frontage. The Cornhill Standard was a water pump, so important that round about 1600 it was sometimes used as the measuring point for distances to London, instead of Queen Eleanor's Cross. Neither Wikipedia norLondonist mention it.
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Cornhill Standard
A water conduit, and point of measurement. From Wikipedia: "first mechanicall...
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Cornhill Standard
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
See St Peter's Close. As far as we can discover Richard Cobden had no particular association with this area.
This plaque is on the last but one southern pier of the southern building.
The plaque refers to the memorial being 'refurbished'. Diamond Geezer explains that previously there was a cross painted on one of the pi...
Fryderyk Chopin, 1810-1849, gave his first London concert in this house, June 23 1848.
2019: MansionGlobal reported that the house was for sale for £16 million, with an aspirational night-time photo of the pool at the back.
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
A category B men's prison on Heathfield Road SW18, known as the Surrey House of Correction when it first opened. Oscar Wilde was originally imprisoned here before being moved to Reading Gaol, and s...
Killed in the 2017 London Bridge attack. Worked at HSBC bank. 39-year-old, from Spain, he had been on his way home after skating in a park with friends.
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