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L’Erber – London Home to Warwick the Kingmaker and George Duke of Clarence

Oct 17, 2022

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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…
Two Huggin Lanes, two churches of St Michael….

Jan 19, 2022

buildings, religion, sources

Agas map, Cheapside, churches, Dictionary of London, Edward VI, Huggin Lane, John of Gaunt, John of Northampton, John Stow, Kingsford, London, Map of London, maps, marriages, Mary Godwin, Nicholas Brembre, Percy Shelley, Ralph Sporoun, Savoy Palace, Sir Christopher Wren, Sporran Lane, St. Michael Hoggenlane, St. Michael Queenhithe, St. Mildred and St. Margaret Moses, Thames Street, Wood Street

The 14th-century story of John of Gaunt enjoying dinner in a friend’s house (including oysters, I understand) in the city of London when rebels ransacked his palace of the Savoy in the hope of laying hands upon him. He escaped, but not before cracking his shin (or some such part of his anatomy) on…
Giving the Walbrook the Elbow….

Jan 1, 2022

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College Hill, Dowgate, Downgate Street, Edward III, Edward IV, Elbow Lane, F.J. Furnivall, flow, Geoffrey Chaucer, Geoffrey Scrope, George Duke of Clarence, Henry I, John Nevill Lord Raby, John Stow, London, maps, Olde Hall, Richard of Warwick, River Walbrook, rivers, Roman era, sewage system, St Mary Overy, Thames Street

In this article I wrote the following:- “….The Walbrook flowed quite swiftly [south] from its source, but on nearing the Thames the land flattened considerably, and the river seems to have indulged in a curve….” This curve or meander, when filled in and “improved” in the 15th century, for the river to flow more…
The Walbrook – river of mystery…!

Aug 21, 2019

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Besant, Bloomberg Development, Bucklersbury, Cannon Street, Chelsea, Christopher Hibbert, Cloak Lane, Dowgate, F.J. Furnivall, Finsbury, Geoffrey Chaucer, London, maps, Moorfield, navigation, Old Barge Inn, Peter Ackroyd, Sir Christopher Wren, St. Stephen Walbrook, Thames, Thames Street, The London Encyclopedia, Thomas More, Walbrook

Ah, what a romantic picture the title of this post conjures. It is certainly not descriptive of the now invisible Walbrook , which had to be covered because it stank so much. Well, the smell was one of the reasons for it being enclosed. I have recently been researching the Walbrook’s exact course. Or, at…

Thames Street

L’Erber – London Home to Warwick the Kingmaker and George Duke of Clarence

Two Huggin Lanes, two churches of St Michael….

Giving the Walbrook the Elbow….

The Walbrook – river of mystery…!