( east plaque )
On this plot of grovnd stood of old “Pavls Cross” whereat amid svch scenes of good and evil as makevp hvman affsirs the conscience of chvrch and nation throvgh five centvries fovnd pvblic vtterance. The first record of it . . . — — Map (db m117869) HM
[Inset within a reproduction of the front cover of All The Year Round is the marker text:]
Saturday, 30th April, 1859
Charles Dickens, pen name
"Boz", operated out of
the Cheshire Cheese Pub
while producing his journal
"All . . . — — Map (db m111228) HM
Corporation of London
Blackfriars Bridge
standing on the site of the original bridge named after
William Pitt the Elder in 1760. Constructed and maintained
without burden upon public funds out of monies derived from the
Bridge House . . . — — Map (db m118269) HM
Tuesday 15th September, 1964
The Sun was launched to
replace the The Daily Herald.
First printed at Boverie
Street, south of Fleet Street. — — Map (db m120042) HM
Elia
To the immortal memory of
Charles Lamb
Perhaps the most beloved name
in English literature who
was a bluecoat boy here for
7 years
B. 1775 D. 1834
[Lower panel:]
This memorial was moved here in . . . — — Map (db m111337) HM
In gratitude to the people of Britain for saving the lives of 10,000 unaccompanied mainly Jewish children who fled from Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939.
“Whosoever rescues a single soul is credited as though they had saved the whole . . . — — Map (db m117258) HM
Christ Church
Newgate Street
This burial ground
was laid out by order of
The Vestry, Sept. 10th 1880
Rev. T.D. Morse M.A. Vicar
John Mixer · William Pitman
Church Wardens — — Map (db m118825) HM
Christ’s Hospital
Founded near this site by King Edward VI – 1552
To house, feed and educate needy children
Incorporating the Royal Mathematical School,
founded by King Charles II – 1673
the School moved to Horsham, West . . . — — Map (db m118823) HM
Welcome to Christchurch Greyfriars Garden
This garden covers the burial grounds on the site of the former nave of Christchurch Greyfriars, which were taken over by the Corporation of London in 1931. The Rose garden was laid out in 1989 and is . . . — — Map (db m118821) HM
These dragons represent a constituent part of the armorial bearings of the City of London and have been erected to indicate the western boundary of the city. This commemorative plaque was unveiled by The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor Sir Ralph Edgar . . . — — Map (db m118273) HM
Was built on this site Circa 1500 and rebuilt and enlarged 1674. A fire partially destroyed the hall which was again rebuilt, but was totally destroyed by fire in 1771. — — Map (db m145211) HM
Wednesday, 11th March 1702
The first edition of the Daily Courant
was published in Fleet Street,
Britain's first daily newspaper. — — Map (db m117367) HM
East India Arms
The East India Company was incorporated on 31st December 1600.
Queen Elizabeth I signed the Charter creating ‘The Company of Merchants of London Trading to the East Indies’. Over 200 subscribers raised almost £70,000 — a . . . — — Map (db m121553) HM
Edgar Wallace
Reporter
Born London 1875
Died Hollywood 1932
Founder Member of the
Company of Newspaper Makers
He knew wealth & poverty, yet had
walked with kings & kept his bearing.
Of his talents he gave lavishly
to authorship . . . — — Map (db m118264) HM
The Great Fire of London of 1666 burned this far but was stopped by the City Wall, saving areas further north and northwest from destruction. Later on, parts of the City Wall were demolished whilst others were incorporated into new buildings, now . . . — — Map (db m118138) HM
This Foundation Stone was Laid by
The Duke of Gloucester G.C.V.O.
On the 31st October 1990
To Inaugurate the Construction of this Building on Behalf of
The Master, Wardens and Freemen and Commonality of the Mystery of Vintners
And
Wates . . . — — Map (db m117898) HM
This frieze was removed from numbers 53 and 54 Barbican when it was demolished in 1962 and re-erected by the Corporation of London in 1975. Numbers 53 and 54 Barbican were the premises of W. Bryer & Sons Gold Refiners and assayers whose trade is . . . — — Map (db m118509) HM
At this place
THINGS
on 15th June 1381
CANNOT
Wat Tyler, John Ball
GO ON
and other representatives
WELL
of the Great Rising.
IN ENGLAND
met King Richard II
NOR
to finalise terms
EVER WELL
for ending the Rebellion. . . . — — Map (db m117192) HM
This Tablet Was Erected
by the Corporation of London
in The Mayoralty of Sir Marcus Samuel
to Mark the Western Boundary of The City
and to Commemorate the Occasion of the Last Visit of
Her Majesty Queen Victoria
who Was Here . . . — — Map (db m118274) HM
London Bridge
One site, many bridges
The current bridge is one of many since the Romans built the first one close to this site 2,000 years ago; it is thought to have had a drawbridge in the centre to allow ships to sail upriver just like . . . — — Map (db m118611) HM
Conservation repairs have been carried out to this Bastion, which forms part of the remains of the City Wall. The site is a Scheduled Monument and part of ‘The Barbican’ Grade II Registered Historic Park & Garden. The work was necessary to protect . . . — — Map (db m118132) HM
Conservation repairs have been carried out to this Bastion, which forms part of the remains of the City Wall. The work was necessary in order to protect the Scheduled Monument from decay.
Moss and plant growth together with their root systems . . . — — Map (db m115959) HM
To the
Immortal Honour
of the Officers
Non-Commissioned
Officers and Men
of London
Who Served Their
King and Empire
In The Great War
1914 1919
This Memorial is
Dedicated In Proud &
Grateful Recognition
By the City and . . . — — Map (db m121571) WM
[South face]
Malta G.C.
In 1940 the sinister shadow of fascism spilled across Europe and into North Africa. Malta, under the protection of Great Britain, found herself alone in a hostile Mediterranean 800 miles from her nearest allies . . . — — Map (db m187812) HM WM
Within a few feet of this spot,
John Rogers,
John Bradford,
John Philpot,
and other servants of God,
suffered death by fire
for the faith of Christ,
in the years 1555, 1556, 1557. — — Map (db m116782) HM
Erected to the memory of the officers and men of the British Navy who lost their lives serving in submarines 1914-1918 and 1939-1945
( left panel)
Submarines
Lost 1914-1918
AE.1 · AE.2 · C.16 · C.29 · C.31 · C.33 · C.34 · D.2 · D.3 . . . — — Map (db m118292) WM
The garden contains remains of London Wall, the Roman and medieval defences of London including the west wall of the original Roman fort. When the defences went out of use, buildings encroached on the wall. Following WW2 bomb damage, 18th and 19th . . . — — Map (db m118140) HM
When German bombing raids in 1940 destroyed the area, the City Wall was revealed once again. For more than 20 years, the area remained undeveloped allowing archaeologists to identify the site of the Roman fort for the first time. A new road, . . . — — Map (db m118135) HM
This stone was laid by the Rt Hon
The Lord Mayor of London
Sir Edmund Stockdale
On March 10th 1960
G.B. Slater – Master
David Nye & Ptnrs Architects
Holloway Bros. Builders — — Map (db m118141) HM
Queenhithe was a thriving Saxon and medieval dock and is the only inlet surviving along the City waterfront today.
In AD 886 the Roman City was reoccupied by King Alfred the Great, the City walls providing some protection from Viking raids. . . . — — Map (db m117877) HM
Queenhithe Mosaic
A timeline displaying the remarkable layers of history from Roman times to Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee
Unveiled on 18th November 2014
by
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor, Alderman Alan Yarrow
Conceived and facilitated by . . . — — Map (db m117878) HM
In 1816, William Caslon IV produced the first sans-serif printing type, popularised by printers like R. Taylor, who worked in this court. — — Map (db m117429) HM
( plaque on the left )
Royal Exchange Forecourt
This landscaped forecourt to
the Royal Exchange was opened
by the Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor
Sir Alan Traill G.B.E., M.A., D.Mus.
on the
10th April 1985
Leonard W.E. Groome
C. . . . — — Map (db m121619) HM
The Heart of the City
This panel stands in the heart of the City of London near some of the most important financial and civic buildings in the capital. This is the part of London where over 350,000 people work by day, while there are a mere . . . — — Map (db m130044) HM
Over 1000 Roman soldiers worked for the provincial governor in London. They were housed in a stone fort built in AD110. Some ninety years later, Roman construction workers began to build the first City Wall, using more than one million blocks of . . . — — Map (db m118137) HM
Si: Mercat: Hanse: Theutonis: Lond: In: Regno: Angelo: Residen
TO CELEBRATE sixty years of peace between the peoples of Britain and Germany
&
TO COMMEMORATE Six hundred years during which some 400 Hanseatic merchants inhabited peaceably in . . . — — Map (db m117902) HM
These gardens are laid out as the footprint of the Chapter House and Cloister of the Medieval Cathedral which was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. The actual remains lie a few feet below.
The Chapter House and Cloister, . . . — — Map (db m117871) HM
Welcome to St Anne & St Agnes
This garden is laid out over the graveyard of the church of St Anne and St Agnes. The church itself was restored by Sir Christopher Wren after it was damaged in the Great Fire, and the garden's modern design aims to . . . — — Map (db m118143) HM
Hallowed In Christ
be the memory of all the gallant men and women
who fell in the Great War for the freedom of the
world they shall yet stand before the throne
an exceeding great army and in that last muster
shall be found these our own . . . — — Map (db m121045) WM
Welcome to St Botolph without Bishopsgate
This garden combines the churchyard of St Botolph without Bishopsgate and land donated by the Common Council in 1760. The current church dates from 1725-8, and escaped with little damage during the second . . . — — Map (db m117261) HM
Welcome to St Mary Staining
This garden has been maintained by the Corporation of London since 1965 and covers the site of the church of St Mary Staining, destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. The first reference to a Church on this site . . . — — Map (db m118142) HM
Welcome to St Olave Silver Street
This garden covers the site of the church of St Olave, destroyed in 1666 by the Great Fire of London. The first reference to a church on this site is to "St Olave de Mukewellestrate” in the twelfth century . . . — — Map (db m118134) HM
The Roman City Wall set the shape of the City of London for the next 1600 years although throughout those centuries, workers continued to maintain it, using various building techniques. The parish churches religious houses and the street pattern . . . — — Map (db m118136) HM
This site was previously called
Sunlight Wharf
where the last working crane on the city waterfront
was operated by
LEP Transport Ltd
until
MCMLXXXII — — Map (db m117876) HM
T.P. O’Connor
Journalist
& Parliamentarian
1848 – 1929
His pen could lay bare
the bones of a book or
the soul of a statesman
in a few vivid lines. — — Map (db m118265) HM
Temple Bar is the only surviving gateway into the City of London and is the successor to the thirteenth century posts and chain, which marked the boundary between the "Liberties" of London and the City of Westminster. It was erected in 1672 at the . . . — — Map (db m117867) HM
This plaque was erected in 1986 to mark the eleven hundredth anniversary of King Alfred's resettlement of the Roman city of London in 886, after the abandonment of the Saxon town which had existed for some three centuries in the Strand area to the . . . — — Map (db m117896) HM
The Automobile Association opened
its first office in this building in the
year 1905.
This plaque was unveiled on the 28th June 1965 by
the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of London,
Sir James Miller, D.L., LL.D., to mark the . . . — — Map (db m111121) HM
This Art Nouveau masterpiece was built in 1905 on the site of a former Dominican friary which existed from 1279 to 1539. Following the 260 years of the Dominican friars, the site became the parliament chamber of the monastery. It is believed that . . . — — Map (db m117074) HM
Built on the site of a Saxon church dedicated to St Edmund the church became known as St Edmund and the Holy Sepulchre during the years 1103 to 1173, when it was in the care of Augustinian Canons, who were Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. Later, the . . . — — Map (db m111296) HM
This tablet is erected to the glory of God
in commemoration of the evangelical conversion of the
Rev. John Wesley, M. A.,
on May 24, 1738.
(The site of the meeting room of The Religious Society
was probably 28 Aldersgate Street), . . . — — Map (db m145213) HM
[Inset within a reproduction of the front page of the first edition of The Daily Express is the marker text:]
Tuesday, 24th April, 1900
The first edition of the Daily Express was
published in Fleet Street. It was one of the
first . . . — — Map (db m111227) HM
The Boy at Pye Corner was erected to commemorate the staying of the Great
Fire which beginning at Pudding Lane was ascribed to the Sin of Gluttony
when not attributed to the papists as on the monument and the Boy was
made prodigiously fat to . . . — — Map (db m111297) HM
