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Behind Stanley lines (2004)

Jan 20, 2024

anniversaries, buildings, religion

Chester, Chester Cathedral, Chester city walls, coach visits, Deva Stadium, Earls of Chester, Edward VIII, football, Liverpool, Love Lane, red light district, shops, Stanleys, The Rows

In that year, I visited the Roman city of Chester for the first weekend in March. It has a fantastic cathedral and the best British walls except those at York , together with modern shops arranged in “The Rows”, a very old red light district and a subsequently built Deva Stadium for football. It is…
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…
Pristine Roman road discovered in Kent cellar….

Jun 20, 2022

archaeology, buildings, travel

Kent, Rochester, Roman roads, shops, Walking Britain’s Roman Roads

Well, discovering treasures from the past doesn’t always take the form of buried hoards or items of priceless jewellery. Now a father and son who bought a shop in Rochester, Kent, were excavating in the cellar and found the above section of Roman road. It’s absolutely pristine. You can read about it and see more…
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…
Richard III sold Northwich to the Stanleys….

Sep 18, 2019

anniversaries, buildings

Cheshire, ICI, navigators, Northwich, shops, Stanleys

On 17th September 1483, Richard III sold the manor and village of Northwich, Cheshire, to the Stanleys. Did that grasping family do some good for once? Or did Northwich wish Richard had kept it? Who knows. The Stanleys were certainly expert at acquiring property and then hanging on to it—Northwich remained theirs until the late…

shops

Behind Stanley lines (2004)

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

Pristine Roman road discovered in Kent cellar….

London’s Greatest Bridges (with Rob Bell)

Richard III sold Northwich to the Stanleys….