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London Bridge and Its Houses c.1209-1761 by Dorian Gerhold – a review.

Jul 2, 2022

art, Book Reviews, buildings, travel

charts, Dorian Gerhold, grocers, Harrods, Hatton Garden, houses, London, London Bridge, Nonsuch House, Peter de Colechurch, shops

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @ sparkypus.com A view of the bridge from Southwark, c.1630. Note the houses that are standing to the south of the Stone Gate, shown here adorned with heads on pikes, were in fact on the first pier of the bridge. This is one of the few remaining pictures showing the city…
London’s Greatest Bridges (with Rob Bell)

Sep 1, 2021

buildings, Science, television reviews

America, architectural history, bascules, Blitz, bridges, Channel Five, Charles Barry, church of St. Magnus, Claudius, concrete, engineering, Gothic facade, Haberdashers, Henry II, Horace Jones, houses, Isambard Brunel, John Barry, London, London Bridge, Marc Brunel, Parliament, Port of London, River Thames, Rob Bell, Roman Britain, Rotherhithe Tunnel, shops, steel, stone, Tilbury, Tower Bridge, towers, wood

The series began at London Bridge itself. From an engineering perspective, Bell explained that the wooden Claudian bridge was the first across the Thames , built on no fewer than twenty-nine artificial islands, making it very difficult to negotiate. It was replaced with a very similar stone unit by Henry II. The Haberdashers were very…
Tenby house with a dubious Tudor record….

Feb 15, 2021

buildings

escapes, Henry VII, hiding, houses, Tenby, Wales

Well, Tenby is beautiful, and a old house with a view over its harbour must be very desirable, see this site, but I fear that this time my pennies will be staying in my piggy bank. Shell out for the privilege of owning the house from which that miserable skinflint Henry Tudor escaped and, apparently,…

houses

London Bridge and Its Houses c.1209-1761 by Dorian Gerhold – a review.

London’s Greatest Bridges (with Rob Bell)

Tenby house with a dubious Tudor record….