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Introduction Step into the streets of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century London, and you would have found yourself at the centre of a global trade in one of the most curious—and influential—materials […]
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Hazel Baker
Introduction Tucked between converted warehouses and placid water basins in Rotherhithe stands a vivid red steel structure—silent now, but once a critical piece of London’s commercial infrastructure. The Surrey Docks […]
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The Story of London’s Victorian Drinking Fountains This ornate and gothic Victorian drinking fountain originally sat beside the church of St Lawrence Jewry in Guildhall Yard, but it was moved […]
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Why I Stand Up for Canary Wharf: Confessions of a London Walke Canary Wharf has often faced criticism for lacking soul – dismissed as merely a forest of glass towers […]
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Introduction In the 1780s, people from China began settling in Limehouse, east London. Records show Chinese seafarers arriving aboard ships owned by the East India Company. Many of these seamen […]
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How Marc Brunel’s Thames Tunnel Was Inspired by the Teredo navalis In the annals of engineering, the Thames Tunnel is a monument to ingenuity—a breakthrough inspired not solely by human […]
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