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Like its neighbour and contemporary, St Paul’s Cathedral, St Vedast-alias-Foster survived the blitz in the second world war when much of the local area was devastated amd destroyed….
I have a book of sketches by Hanslip Fletcher called Bombed London. He drew the pictures during World War Two and published many of them in The Daily…
Carey Street runs from Portugal Street and the student quarter around the LSE across to Chancery Lane and London’s legal area. It is famous as the original “Queer…
Looking east from the edges of the City of London. The constant rebuilding of the metropolis is evidenced by the cranes. St Pauls Cathedral, meanwhile, is beginning to…
The classic picture looking east along Fleet Street has St Paul’s Cathedral sitting at the end, fat and majestic. These days if you stand slightly to the south…
The Cripplegate area of the City of London was decimated during the Blitz. In the 1950’s it was decided to build the Barbican residential estate on the Cripplegate…