London

SIR PAUL PINDAR c.1565-1650. AND HIS HOUSE IN BISHOPSGATE

Jun 24, 2023

anniversaries, buildings, religion, travel

ambassadors, Bishopsgate, Constantinople, Half Moon Street, Italian banking system, James VI, John Strype, Liverpool Street Station, London, Northamptonshire, Old St. Paul’s, Ottoman Empire, Sir Paul Pyndar, taverns, Victoria and Albert Museum, Wellingborough

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…
More historic walks on Channel Five

Jun 6, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion, television reviews

Arthur Williams, barrage balloons, Battle of Britain, blackouts, Blitz, Cardiff, Channel Five, Clydebank, D-Day, Dan Jones, Devon, East Anglia, Great Yarmouth, Hampshire, Leiston Abbey, Liverpool, London, mining, Onyeka Nubia, pill boxes, Port Talbot, Rob Bell, Second, South Wales, steel, Suzannah Lipscomb, Walking Wartime Britain

If it isn’t Rob Bell walking Britain’s Lost Battlefields or Railways, Dan Jones walking Britain’s Roman Roads, Suzannah Lipscomb walking “Tudor” England or Onyeka Nubia walking Victorian Britain, it is Arthur Williams (the former marine and pilot) walking Wartime Britain. This is a fascinating series in its own right, showing how areas of the country…
ST DUNSTAN- IN-THE-EAST – SURVIVER OF DISASTERS – NOW A TRANQUIL HAVEN

Apr 27, 2023

buildings, religion, sources

antiquaries, Blitz, burials, churches, Great Fire of London, John Dolben Bishop of Rochester, John Stow, London, rebuilt structures, Samuel Pepys, Sir Christopher Wren, St. Dunstan in the East, Tower of London, Wren’s Tower

REBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI @sparkypus.com The peaceful garden…a tranquil spot to sit a while in the busy heart of the City of London. Photo Haarkon co.uk. St Dunstan-in-the-East was already ancient when John Stow wrote about it in his Survey of London Written in the Year 1598. Not to be confused with St Dunstan-in-the West,…
Oliver Cromwell’s posthumous peregrinations

Apr 25, 2023

anniversaries, archaeology, genealogy, law

Allan Barton, burials, Cambridge, Charles I, Commonwealth, evidence, executions, Exhumation, London, Lord Protector of the Realm, Oliver Cromwell, posthumous execution, Restoration, Richard III, Sidney Sussex College, Thomas Cromwell, Westminster Abbey

Much has been written about Cromwell’s life including his descent from Thomas Cromwell‘s sister, his childhood, his rise and service as Lord Protector, after Charles I‘s execution, whilst refusing the crown. Here, as part of his afterlife, Allan Barton, on YouTube, discusses the fate of his corpse. This includes his beheading, alongside the other deceased…
THE MYSTERIOUS CHEAPSIDE HOARD, DISCOVERY AND FURTHER ADVENTURES….

Apr 11, 2023

archaeology, art, buildings, sources

Cheapside, Cheapside Hoard, Friday Street, George Fabian larence, Goldsmiths Row, Great Fire of London, John Stow, London, Museum of London, museums, Thomas Wood, Viscount Harcourt, Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com The Cheapside Hoard. Discovered beneath the floor of an ancient cellar during the demolition of 30-32 Cheapside in 1912. How the owners of such jewels must have shimmered in the candlelight. Photo 1websurfer@Flikr. The Cheapside Hoard as it has become known was discovered in June 1912 at 30-32 Cheapside when…
The “awkward mediaeval cities” (3) : St. Alban’s

Feb 17, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, religion, travel

battlefields, blue plaque, Boudicca, Colchester, destruction, Edmund Duke of Somerset, Eleanor Crosses, Elizabeth I, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Humphrey of Gloucester, Jean II, John Ball, London, Luton, martyrs, museums, Northampton, Oxford, Poitiers, Roman Britain, Roman theatre, Second Battle of St. Albans, Skipton Building Society, St. Alban, St. Albans, St. Albans Cathedral, Thameslink, Verulam Park, Verulamium Roman Museum, Victoria Street, Wars of the Roses, Watford Junction

Unlike Northampton and Oxford, St. Alban’s (City) is on the Thameslink network and also has a branch line to Watford Junction. Accommodation can be expensive but the less historic Luton is surprisingly convenient as a base, being about fourteen minutes away on the same line and costing about five pounds for a day return. Turning right…
CROSSBONES – BURIAL PLACE OF WINCHESTER GEESE AND ‘THE OUTCAST DEAD’

Feb 6, 2023

anniversaries, buildings, law, religion, sources

Arthur de Mowbray, Bermondsey, Bishop of Winchester, Borough High Street, Caroline Wilkinson, Crossbones Cemetery, facial reconstruction, Henry II, infant mortality, John Stow, Jubilee Line, London, Lord Brabazon, Museum of London, pauper burials, prostitution, Ribbon Gates, River Thames, Southwark, St. Thomas’ Hospital, Winchester Geese

REBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI @ sparkpus.com Shrine of many ribbons at the entrance to Crossbones Cemetery. Photo Kay Nicols. It’s harder to find a more sadder place in South London than the site of Crossbones Burial Ground, Redcross Way, which is a side street tucked away off the busy Borough High Street,…
L’Erber – London Home to Warwick the Kingmaker and George Duke of Clarence

Oct 17, 2022

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, law, religion, sources, travel

Anne Neville, Barnet, Checkers Yard, Coldharbour, Crowland Chronicle, Dowgate Hill, Earl of Oxford, Edward IV, executions, George Duke of Clarence, Great Fire of London, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry VIII, high treason, Isobel Neville, John Strype, Kingsford, l’Erber, London, Margaret of Salisbury, Nevilles, past maps, Ralph Earl of Westmorland, Reformation, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Richard III, Richard III Society, Richard of Salisbury, Richard of Warwick, River Thames, sanctuary, Sir Francis Drake, St. Martin’s, Stow’s Survey, Thames Street, Tower of London, Visscher Panorama of London, Wars of the Roses, Warwick Lane, William Latimer

My latest A Medieval Potpourri @sparkypus.com post London before the Great Fire and much as Richard Neville ‘The Kingmaker’ and his family would have known it… L’Erber stood slightly to the north west of Coldharbour which is the large house seen here in middle of the picture and facing the Thames. No depiction of L’Erber…
The relocation of a great house Richard III knew well….

Sep 27, 2022

buildings

Bishopsgate, Catherine of Aragon, Crosby Hall, East India Company, London, Richard III, River Thames, Sir John Crosby, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas More

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…
A possible Elizabethan bridge over the Thames at Blackwall….

Aug 18, 2022

buildings, Science, travel

Blackwall Tunnel, bridges, Elizabeth I, engineering, London, past maps, Robert Adams

Wandering around the net in search of one thing does, as we all know, often turn up something else entirely. I came upon this site which tells of a map from a period following the one in which we’re mainly interested, but I found it intriguing. It seems the present Blackwall Tunnel mightn’t be…