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Vic Keegan’s Lost London 37: Queenhithe Dock
Queenhithe Dock is not much to look at, surrounded as it is on three sides by office blocks, and the wonder is that it is there at all. On a bad day it could be […]
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Vic Keegan’s Lost London 36: the Middle Temple Hall
The wonderful Middle Temple (nearest station, Temple) is not lost, just difficult to get into except when events are held there or there is an open day – or if you happen to be a […]
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Vic Keegan’s Lost London 35: the Texas Embassy
Between 1836 and 1845 Texas was a country in its own right, a republic with an embassy, or legation, in London, the site of which can still be observed in an alley off St James’s […]
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Vic Keegan’s Lost London 34: the medieval Jewel Tower
The Jewel Tower, built in 1365, is one of only two buildings from the medieval Palace of Westminster – seat of kings and parliament – which have remained intact. The other is a near neighbour, […]
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Vic Keegan’s Lost London 33: Shakespeare’s Newington Butts
The words “Shakespeare” and “Elephant and Castle” are not normally found in the same sentence. That is a pity because one of the very earliest theatres of Shakespeare’s time, in which his plays were put on and […]
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Vic Keegan’s Lost London 32: the remains of Thomas Cromwell’s garden
The photo shows all that remains of Thomas Cromwell’s garden, part of a two acre site he developed when Henry VIII’s chief of staff into one of the grandest private residences in London. Initially, he took a […]
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Vic Keegan’s Lost London 31: the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
This East London company, astonishingly, has been making bells continuously since 1570 during the reign of Elizabeth I and quite possibly from as early as 1420, when Henry V married Catherine of Valois to become […]
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Vic Keegan’s Lost London 30: Elizabeth I at St Dunstan-in-the-West
It is worth coming to St Dunstan-in-the-West, a mini museum of a church on Fleet Street, just to see the statue of Elizabeth I, though there is plenty more to enjoy. The statue is the only one in […]
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Vic Keegan’s Lost London 29: traces of Ignatius Sancho
If you are walking along King Charles Street in Whitehall, close to the entrance to the grandly classical Foreign Office, it is easy to miss a plaque fixed high up on the wall. I missed it […]
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Vic Keegan’s Lost London 28: Marx, Lenin and the secret of Marx House
Clerkenwell Green has been a cauldron of radicalism ever since the Peasants Revolt was extinguished there in 1381. A reminder of its revolutionary history is the Marx Memorial Library. The building is where in 1902-03 […]