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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
In addressing the 'square mile' concept Londonist has provided a potted histo...
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 ...
"Form rooms" is what many public schools call their class rooms, after the forms (benches) on which the pupils sat.
The corridor with the two busts, plaque and glass display area is on the ground floor of the Hunter wing.
We could find no source for the Bowie quote but many websites give it, though normally with correct spelling and punctuation and with ".....
This extremely unusual memorial is a brass plate, only 4 or 5 inches across, fixed in the parquet floor at the site of Faraday’s pew when...
Greater London Council Thomas Henry Wyatt 1807-1880, architect lived here.
