Bishopsgate
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THE GREAT PLAGUE AND PLAGUE PITS OF LONDON 1665
Aldgate, Angel, Bishopsgate, bubonic plague, Crossbones Cemetery, Eyam, Fulham, Green Park, Hackney, Hand Alley, insanitary conditions, Kensington, Liverpool Street Station, London, Lord Macaulay, Marylebone, Moorfields, Mount Mill, Oxford Street, plague pits, rats, Samuel Pepys, Shoreditch, Soho, Southwark, St. Giles’ Church, St. Paul’s, Stepney Fields, Walter George Bell, Wapping, Westminster, WhitechapelReblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com ‘THE GREAT PLAGUE – SCENES FROM THE STREETS OF LONDON’. FROM CASSELL’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND VOL.III (1905) ‘May 29th 1666. Spent on the City Marshall at ye shutting up of a visited house . . Is.0d.’ Plague had always stalked England throughout the centuries with regular outbreaks such as the…
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Reposted from A Medieval Potpourri@sparkypus.com The façade of Sir Paul Pindar’s house in Bishopgate. Now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Photo Victoria and Albert Museum Collection Sir Paul Pindar acquired the site in what was then known as Bishopsgate Street Without in 1597 and begun building the house, later known as Pindar’s House, shortly afterward…
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This article commences with the following: “….A cluster of individuals claimed by some to be the true authors of Shakespeare‘s works lived in or near the same ostentatious mansion in the City of London at much the same time….” The mansion is in Bishopsgate and yes, it is known for its connections with the Bard.…
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This great house was never built next to the Thames at Chelsea, but now it stands right on the riverbank. It originally stood in Bishopsgate, London, from where it was moved brick by brick at the beginning of the 20th century. It was first erected in 1466 by Sir John Crosby., and is now…
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REBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI sparkypus.com Artists impression of how St Mary Spital may have appeared before the Dissolution. Museum of London. Artist Faith Vardy. St. Mary Spital Augustinian Priory and Hospital covered the area known today as Spital Square. Standing outside the city walls it was bordered from the west by Bishopsgate Street…
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THE ANCIENT GATES OF OLD LONDON
Aldersgate, Aldgate, Anne Sutton, Bastard of Fauconberg, Bethnal Green, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Ealdred, Edmund the Martyr, Edward IV, Edward V, gates, Geoffrey Chaucer, Great Fire of London, Henry I, John Stow, London, Ludgate, Moorgate, Newgate Prison, Old London Bridge, past maps, Peter Hammond, Richard III, Southwark, Watling StreetREBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI THE ANCIENT GATES OF LONDON Old London Map c1572. Franz Hogenberg And so Dear Reader, we are going to take a break from murderous queens, scheming duchesses, bad kings, good kings, missing royal children and silly bishops. We are going to take a look at London’s Old Gates. Where were…
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UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/18/crosby-place-home-to-the-duke-and-duchess-of-gloucester/ The arms of Richard III in Crosby Hall On June 5th 1483 the Duchess of Gloucester arrived in London and joined her husband at Crosby Place (1). She had left both her small son and and home at Middleham to join her husband, who had been staying…
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