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2 unusual facts about Bishopsgate


Bishopsgate

--(Weinreb and Hibbert 1983: 127)--> The 17th century facade of Sir Paul Pindar's House, demolished to make way for Liverpool Street railway station in 1890, on Bishopsgate was also preserved and can now be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Robert Moray

Following the restoration of Charles II, Moray was one founders of the Royal Society at its first formal meeting on Wednesday 28 November 1660, at the premises of Gresham College on Bishopsgate, at which Christopher Wren, Gresham Professor of Astronomy, delivered a lecture.


Broadgate

The perimeter of the managed estate is Bishopsgate to the east, Sun Street, Appold Street and the eastern part of Worship Street to the north, the southern part of Wilson Street to the west and Eldon Street and Liverpool Street to the south.

Crosby Hall, London

The move was paid for by the Bank of India, who had purchased the Bishopsgate site to build offices.

Dating agency

By 1825 an agency in Bishopsgate, London, opened three days a week for members of the public looking for a partner to describe themselves and subscribe to the appropriate list.

Edmund Bartley-Denniss

Digby's father was Johnathan Denniss (1700–1736) (or Dennis) a factor of the South Sea Company, later of Kingston, Jamaica, born in the parish of St. Helens, Bishopsgate, London.

Michael Solomon

Meyer Solomon (Michael), eighteenth century manufacturer at Bishopsgate, London

Pritchard Englefield

Pritchard Englefield was based in the City from the date of its foundation in 1848 by HD Pritchard, primarily at Painters Hall where Mr Pritchard and his partner Mr Englefield became Joint Clerks to the Painter Stainers Company, and finally in Bishopsgate, where the merged firm remains as the London office of Thomas Eggar LLP, although it did spend 21 years in the West End of London (1971-1992).

St Botolph's Aldersgate

The others were St Botolph's, Billingsgate (destroyed by the Great Fire and not rebuilt); St Botolph's, Aldgate; and St Botolph's, Bishopsgate.

St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate

In 1993, the church was half destroyed when a massive IRA 1993 Bishopsgate bombing bomb exploded nearby, devastating Bishopsgate and causing an estimated £350M worth of damage.

William Henry Overall

He was educated at a private school and then at the newly opened City of London College, Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate.


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