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The Great Conduit lies beneath this spot.
Built by the City of London in 1245 to provide public water supplied by pipe from Tyburn Springs.
Removed after the Great Fire in 1666 and found during the construction of One Poultry in 1994.
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The stone plaque is laid into the pavement.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Great Conduit in Cheapside - stone
In 1236/7 the City of London was granted permission to tap the Tyburn Springs...
Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Great Conduit in Cheapside - stone
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Great Conduit in Cheapside - stone
The Great Conduit stood in this street providing free water, 13th century to ...
The George The George was founded in 1723 as a coffee house, became Georges Hotel in 1830 and then a public house as it is today. Forme...
From the Imperial College website: The Royal College of Science building was completed in 1906 ….. The building was designed by architect...
July 2019: Via Facebook we were contacted by Nick Davis, telling us that this plaque had been removed. We got along to the address in Aug...
The Duke of Sussex had died just 3 years before this plaque was erected. We have competing information about the architect of this wing....
Initially the only information we had about this poignant memorial came from Islington's Management Plan for the garden (2017 'page not f...
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