... Old London Bridge Old London Bridge ....
SE1, Tooley Street
To the casual passerby these strips look like the expansion joints one sees on bridges. It was David Brown who drew our attention to what is actually a "ghost" of the approach road to old London Bridge. Sadly much of the glass in the strips has been damaged or lost.
Credit for this entry to: David Brown
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ghost of old London Bridge
Four stone bridges have spanned the Thames at this point. The first was built...
The excellent Greenwich Phantom tells us that the footprint of the old church is shown "by a beech hedge, some of the foundation stones m...
On Park Street there's a plaque for the Globe but behind that, and possibly missed by some people, is the actual Globe, or rather marking...
These cobbles mark out the site of the original circular church of the medieval Priory of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. The Priory o...
Our picture comes from Google satellite view and shows, better than can be seen at ground level, the (partial) outlines of the two church...
When we photographed the stone we did not notice the rectangular clearing around it but this Google Satellite image displays the space we...
The excellent Greenwich Phantom tells us that the footprint of the old church is shown "by a beech hedge, some of the foundation stones m...
This was one of several deep shelters built under Northern Line underground stations during WW2. See The Drum for more information. The Blitz was over by the time this shelter was completed so ins...
Born Aberdeen. Winner of the Prix de Rome. Other work in London includes the 1963 Joy of Life group in the Hyde Park fountain, pictured by Ornamental Passions.
Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect this memorial because in the list on the back Forman is given ...
An experiment by the London and Croydon Railway. Pumping stations were built which created a vacuum in a pipe laid between the rails. Each carriage had a piston that entered a slot in the tube, sea...
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