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The Great Conduit lies beneath this spot.
Built by the City of London in 1245 to provide public water supplied by pipe from Tyburn Springs.
Removed after the Great Fire in 1666 and found during the construction of One Poultry in 1994.
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The stone plaque is laid into the pavement.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Great Conduit in Cheapside - stone
In 1236/7 the City of London was granted permission to tap the Tyburn Springs...
Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Great Conduit in Cheapside - stone
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Great Conduit in Cheapside - stone
The Great Conduit stood in this street providing free water, 13th century to ...
The sun-burst was part of de Worde's printer's device - printed at the front or back of all books to identify the printer. Not sure we w...
Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) French impressionist, stayed here in 1892.
Installed by 19 September 2016, with little ceremony.
In the photo the memorial is partly hidden by the rubbish bin.
A Lambeth paper reports that Charlie Chaplin, who was born in 1889 and brought up nearby, remembers sitting on the pavement outside this ...
We wonder if erecting this plaque was part of the deal for De La Rue getting Tonga's currency printing business.
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