First conserved in 1959 by the Ministry of Works when it was in the basement of the then new General Post Office. The picture source is a report by the developers of the current building.
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Medieval bastion
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Remains of Roman wall and bastion
The Remains of the Roman city wall, constructed around AD 200, and a medieval...
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Bishopsgate
Originally Roman, rebuilt in 1471, again in 1735 and then demolished in 1760. See British History On-line for a drawing of the last gate). See Cripplegate for the full list of 8 gates of old London.
2 memorials
Aldgate
Originally a Roman gate it was rebuilt a number of times: 1108–47, 1215, 1607-09. As a customs official Chaucer lived in the rooms above the gate, 1374-1386. The Cass Charity school used the upper...
2 memorials
Newgate
Newgate was the western exit through the Roman London Wall. In later years the gate house was about 100 feet wide. Part of this building was used, from at least the 12th century, as a prison and th...
1 memorial
Cripplegate
Cripplegate was originally the northern entrance to the Roman fort, built c.AD120. This Roman gate probably remained in use until at least the late Saxon period when it is mentioned in 10th and 11t...
1 memorial
Moor Gate
This gate was made in the London Wall early in the 15th century to allow access to Moor Fields, marshy moor-land outside the wall. By 1606 the area had been improved and became London's first publi...
1 memorial
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First British public airmail flight
BR3, Croydon Road Recreation Ground, Croydon Road
The plaque is on the grass beneath the group of trees in the photograph.
4 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
Michael Balfe
W1, Seymour Street, 12
L.C.C. 1911 Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870), musical composer, lived here.
1 subject commemorated
Michael Collins
Irish nationalist and politician. Born Woodfield, County Cork. He moved to London in 1906 with his sister, spending over nine years there. An activist in the Sinn Féin movement, he was imprisoned i...
1 memorial
John McCormack
NW3, Ferncroft Avenue, 24
John McCormack, 1884 - 1945, lyric tenor, lived here, 1908 - 1913. English Heritage
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
C. J. Fitch
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1896-1941. Officer in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
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