The Society's own website says "Meeting nights were indicated by a lamp hung over the Fleet Street entrance to the courtyard." Matt Brown of Londonist thinks (and we agree with him) that this lamp, at the centre of a sort of armillary sphere, is inspired by that lamp from over 200 years ago.
EC4, Crane Court
The Royal Society met at the north end of Crane Court from 1710-80, that's the end behind our camera.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Crane Court - Royal Society
Also known as the Royal Society of London (for the Improvement of Natural Kno...
Three churches and two clock towers have been built on this site, but nothing remains today. A modern information board (which you can se...
Palumbo owned the Farnsworth House, near Chicago, 1972 - 2003. It was presumably when he vacated that building that the finial was reloca...
We were contacted by the people at London Street Views who are researching the Street Views of 1838 - 47, produced by John Tallis. They h...
This inscription fails to name the person(s) who erected this substantial memorial, nor does it name the dedicatees. The British Newspap...
Memorial Clock to Harold Wilson (not the Prime Minister.)
We're not certain we have found the right foundry. Its name seems right but it's Australian which seems wrong. From their website: "Established in 1973 by Peter Morley, Meridian Sculpture was the ...
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