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Fantastic, this is absolutely stunning. A few things stand out: * What an incredible transformation that London has seen; the city then was surrounded on all s
by fumblebee 5y ago
Fantastic, this is absolutely stunning. A few things stand out:
* What an incredible transformation that London has seen; the city then was surrounded on all sides by fields. But still through this transformation - and also through the Great Fire, the civil war, the World Wars - it's still recognisably London.
* Notice several casualties that the city's been dealt, including 1. the old - and imho far more beautiful - London Bridge (https://www.golakehavasu.com/london-bridge https://www.golakehavasu.com/london-bridge), 2. the old city wall with all the gatehouses still intact, 3. Baynards Castle which was destroyed during the Great Fire.
* The two arenas at the bottom of the image were for bull and bear baiting - for betting and entertainment. We've come a long way as a society.
* Charing Cross monument was still there, which surprised me. A quick search shows there's been a cross there since the 13th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_cross https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_cross).
- twic 5y agoJust north of Moorgate, there are some people with bows. This is roughly where the buildings of the Honourable Artillery Company stand today (although on the other side of the road).
- jfengel 5y agoThe Great Fire should have been an opportunity to fix it all, but it turned out to be too much of a mess to clean up the property rights. So even in places that were completely flattened, they re-built it exactly as it was before -- a complete mess of a map, but very distinctively London.