Site of Laurence Pountney Church and Corpus Christi College. Destroyed in the Great Fire 1666.
The Corporation of the City of London
Site: Laurence Pountney Church (1 memorial)
EC4, Laurence Pountney Hill
Site of Laurence Pountney Church and Corpus Christi College. Destroyed in the Great Fire 1666.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC4, Laurence Pountney Hill
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Laurence Pountney Church
Sir John Poultney or de Pulteney was in the Drapers' Company, Lord Mayor 3 ti...
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:
Laurence Pountney Church
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
When we first visited, September 2014, there was no plaque, just two holes drilled in the front of the plinth to indicate that there had ...
The Belcher plaque is on the stone in the foreground of our photo, and the St Mark's cairn and WW2 memorials behind it.
The plot consists of 36 graves acquired by the London Fire Brigade Widows and Orphans Fund (founded in1882 by Massey Shaw, who, probably ...
This plaque is made of a single piece of cast iron.
Roy Hattersley, a Bennett enthusiast, unveiled the plaque.
The exhibition was held in Wembley Park. It was a showcase of aspects of many of the British colonies at the time. It had 18 million visitors in 1924, but failed to break even. The main stadium was...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
Hymn writer (e.g. wrote the words for the carol "Ding dong merrily on high"). Born: Birkenhead, Cheshire. Died: Highgate. Buried: Little Walsingham, Norfolk, where he had been a vicar. He retir...
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...
First President and first Prime Minister of Ghana. Born in the Gold Coast Colony, now Ghana. Birth date uncertain. As a young man he studied first in the USA and then London, at the LSE. While ...
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