City of London Green Badge Guide. Highlights of the City, Women and working-class and industrial history, East End
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The Arms of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. It is unusual to have a crest which is simply a copy of the principal charge (symbol) of the arms. Here the Mercers’ Maiden serves as arms and crest.
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Arms of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. The central charge (symbol) of the arms is a ‘double warded key’ being the key to knowledge. The sparks refer to electricity. The crest is Mercury the winged messenger. The motto CITO means Swiftly.
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Culverine provided by the Worshipful Company of Vintners to the City of Londonderry
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50 years ago, Dave Allen told a joke about newspaper readers in 1976, it would become more famous 11 years after this on Yes, Prime Minister in 1987.
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A lovely morning with these ladies from SW London who chose a #RegentsCanal #privatetour to explore a part of London they did not know.
The Hackney Sharks are always a highlight. We ended up at the vibrant Broadway Street Market where the vibrant street market
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Bedford Square, east of Tottenham Court Road, was laid out in the 1770s on land owned by the Duke of Bedford to provide residences for London's upper middle class. The last house was completed in 1784. It remains as one of the capital's best-preserved and scenic garden squares.
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Arms of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, aptly painted on stained glass. The beaks of the Phoenix heads should be Gules (red) but we won’t quibble about that.
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Let's raise our glass tonight to William Walker, who from 1906 to 1911, diving in dirty muddy water, working for hours in darkness to restore the foundations of Winchester Cathedral and saving it from collapsing.
He died during the Spanish flu epidemic.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willia…
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A view of the stairwell in Armourers’ Hall, one of my favourite livery company halls in the City of London
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The hero dinner lady who died saving five children in the Aberfan disaster. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw1m…
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A service of thanksgiving for writer, playwright and cultural commentator Bonnie Greer will be held at St Paul’s Cathedral in London on January 16, 2027, her husband and family have announced. 🙏🏾🕊️
Read full update➡️voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-n…
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Holborn Viaduct, and the street that passes across it, were constructed in the 1860s as part of a major road improvement scheme. It created a bridge over the River Fleet (which had already been covered over), to avoid the difficult descent or ascent of the sides of the valley.
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Smithfield Market is open and trading around the clock: a real cross-section of London.
Tom Absalom’s family has helped supply the city’s butchers and caterers for over 50 years, and you can shop here too.
Hours and info: smithfieldmarket.com/
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How can design help de-risk development, support local SME housebuilders and deliver gentle density with public consent? That was the question at the heart of our recent @createstreets seminar, co-hosted with Quintain Consulting….
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A lady told me her daughter skipped my talk because its subject, Queen Caroline, ‘isn’t in Bridgerton’. Fair point.
But Caroline refereed a dispute between Newton and Leibniz, had her daughters inoculated against smallpox when Britain thought it madness, and hid a secret from her ladies that killed her.
The cleverest queen consort we've ever had, my favourite queen is all but forgotten today! Read about her in the next tweet down👇
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Martin Lewis who died in obscurity in 1962 was a retired art teacher who found some success in his early career, but was largely forgotten. He spent his last three decades teaching other people how to etch, including Edward Hopper.
History chose Hopper, but Lewis was his mentor.
