{Below the City of London crest:}
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.
EC2, Cheapside, Tescos
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 ...
Many of the houses on this side of the road have this 'bridge mark' plaque (in varying conditions) on their frontages, all between the tw...
There are two other plaques on the front of this building. They don't commemorate anything so we can't really enter them as memorials but...
London's roads were heavily congested, the railways stopped on the fringes of the West End so some way of linking the mainline stations: ...
The Romans were in Britain AD 43 - 410 so we think the '900s' on the plaque refers to the period (early medieval) when the name 'Watling ...
Dirty and uncared for, but we prefer the Duchess plaque - just the way they have written the "Qu" of "Queen" endears it to us. The modern...
Lieutenant Thomas Edwin Turner was born in Warwickshire, a son of Charles Walter Turner (1849-1904) and Ellen Clara Turner née Bayliss (b.1853). His birth was registered in 2nd quarter of 1889 in t...
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