{Below the City of London crest:}
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 ...
His excellency Alfonso Lopez-Pumarejo, 1886 - 1959, ambassador to the court of St James's, twice president of the Republic of Colombia, l...
A bit of a puzzle, this one, but bear with us. We started with the dictionary: ‘Lustrum’ = a ceremonial purification of the entire ancien...
The plaque is on the pavement by the nearest black and white bollard.
Lane and Orpen were distant cousins and rented this house together in 1907. The Lane plaque is above, Orpen below, with a little window b...
The plaque refers to the unveiling day being 'Election Day'. There was no General Election in 1956. The Lord Mayor's election to office d...
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