Showing posts with label City of London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label City of London. Show all posts
17 December 2012

Dositey Obradovich in the City: London #55

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27 Clement's Lane.   'HERE LIVED IN 1784 DOSITEY OBRADOVICH [Dositej Dimitrije Obradović] 1742~1811 Eminent Serbia...
8 December 2012

Samuel Pepys in the City: London #45

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'SITE OF THE NAVY OFFICE IN WHICH SAMUEL PEPYS LIVED AND WORKED DESTROYED BY FIRE 1673'   The above plaque is...
19 September 2012

Dr Johnson, The Strand: London #31

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  This statue of Dr Samuel Johson stands to the east side of St Clement Danes, The Strand, which Johnson used to attend.   'SAMUEL JOHNS...
12 September 2012

John Milton in St Giles without Cripplegate Church: London #23

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St Giles without Cripplegate, within the Barbican complex, London.     John Milton was buried here in 1674. The statue is by Horace Montford...
11 September 2012

Thomas Gray in Cornhill: London #20

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  'THOMAS GRAY POET WAS BORN IN A HOUSE ON THIS SITE   ––– ––– –––   "THE CURFEW TOLLS THE KNELL OF PARTING DAY"   This is a v...
10 September 2012

The Art of Michael Visocchi and Lemn Sissay in Fen Court: London #19

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Tucked away in Fen Court is this remarkable sculpture, which is explained, with the poem, in the interpretation plaque below.     ...
10 May 2012

Rodinsky's Room and 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields, London

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19 Princelet Street was built in 1714 and was the home of the French Huguenot Ogier family, who developed a very successful silk weaving co...
22 April 2012

John Betjeman in Cloth Court, London

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  Cloth Fair is a small street in the City of London, and off it is the passage Cloth Court. A plaque records that John Betjeman once lived...