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4 unusual facts about Minories


Lady Mary Grey

The Duchess wrote to Cecil expressing shock at the few pitiful household effects with which Mary arrived at her house in the Minories.

Minories

Aldgate Underground station is located at the northern end of Minories, on Aldgate High Street.

The DLR was extended westward in 1991 to Bank leaving this as an 'alternate terminus'; it is now open again following platform extension works in 2009.

St Botolph's Aldgate

The ecclesiastical parish was united with that of the Church of Holy Trinity, Minories, in 1899.


Minories railway station

Minories was soon supplemented by a new station several hundred yards west, at Fenchurch Street, designed by William Tite.


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