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17 unusual facts about city of London


Andrew McFadyean

His attempts to be elected to Parliament in 1945 as the Liberal and Free Trade candidate for the City of London, and 1950 for Finchley were unsuccessful.

Upon his return from Berlin, he did not rejoin the Treasury, but instead started a career in the City of London.

Blackwell Hall

Blackwell Hall in the City of London (also known as Bakewell Hall) was the centre for the wool and cloth trade in England from mediaeval times until the 19th century.

Charles Jocelyn Hambro

Hambro was born into a banking family of Danish origin which had settled in Dorset and the City of London in the early 19th century.

Christ's Hospital Band

Outside the school, the band performs in the annual Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London.

Furnival's Inn

Furnival's Inn was an area for local government partly in the City of London and partly in Middlesex.

ITV Westcountry

On 12 September 2007, ITV issued a statement to the City of London, saying that it wished to reduce the number of news studios from 17 to just 9.

London County

City of London, England, a city-county, and enclave of Greater London

Marcus Evelyn Collins

Marcus Evelyn Collins (1861-1944) was one of the nine sons and two daughters of London architect and City of London District Surveyor Hyman Henry Collins (1833-1905).

Museum of London Group

The Museum of London Group is a public body based in the City of London.

Royal Wardrobe

The Royal Wardrobe (also known as the "Great Wardrobe") was a building located on what is now Queen Victoria Street in the City of London, near Blackfriars.

Sir Jonathan Cope, 1st Baronet

His extensive estate included the ground rent of the London Custom House, for which the Government paid £1,600 a year, on a lease of 99 years.

St Andrew Hubbard

The church stood in the in the Billingsgate ward of the City of London.

St Andrew Hubbard was a parish church in the Billingsgate ward of the City of London.

St Martin Orgar

St Martin Orgar was a church in the City of London in Martin Lane, off Cannon Street, most famous as being one of the churches mentioned in the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons".

St Peter le Poer

St Peter le Poer was a church on the west side of Broad Street in the City of London.

William James Linton

The young Linton was educated at Chigwell Grammar School, an early 17th-century foundation attended by many sons of the Essex and City of London middle classes.


Bank junction

Bank junction is a major road junction in the City of London, the historic and financial centre of London, at which nine streets converge on an area where traffic is controlled by traffic lights and give-way lines.

Borough Road railway station

Borough Road railway station was a railway station in Borough Road, Southwark, south London, England, on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, which was first opened in 1864 on the railway's City Branch, and which crossed the River Thames and ran up through Blackfriars to terminate in the City of London.

Cloth Fair

Cloth Fair is a street in the City of London where, in medieval times, merchants gathered to buy and sell material during the Bartholomew Fair.

Collier Twentyman Smithers

He was a Freeman of the City of London, being admitted to the Worshipful Company of Turners in 1893.

Daniel Sharpe

His mother's family owned a bank in the City of London, and his uncle was Samuel Rogers, the poet and literary figure, so Daniel was not abandoned.

Edward Solly

Solly was a younger brother in an English merchant family headed by Isaac Solly that were engaged in the Baltic timber trade, with offices in the city of London.

Eric Maclagan

Among the most outstanding were the exhibitions of the works of art belonging to the livery companies of the City of London (1926), of English Medieval Art (1930), the William Morris Centenary exhibition (1934), the exhibition of the Eumorfopoulos collection (1936), and an exhibition of sculptures which had been moved from Westminster Abbey during the Second World War (1945).

Hay's Galleria

Due to its location on the southern Thames Path, its panoramic views over the City of London from the riverside, and the location between London City Hall and Southwark Cathedral, Hay's Galleria is visited by many tourists and local workers.

Horley

In 1602 it became the property of Christ's Hospital in London and the original map of the manor is now held at the Guildhall in the City of London.

I.J. Berthe Hess

In 1967, the Hess family moved to London, England and opened the B.H. Corner Gallery, on Cathedral Place next to Paternoster Square and Saint Paul's Cathedral in the City of London.

Ladbroke Estate

James Weller Ladbroke held the estate until his death in 1847, though the actual development of the land was carried out by a firm of City solicitors, Smith, Bayley (known as Bayley and Janson after 1836), working in conjunction with the architect, landscaper and surveyor Thomas Allason.

London Mithraeum

It is perhaps the most famous of all twentieth-century Roman discoveries in the City of London.

London water supply infrastructure

In 1582, Dutchman Peter Morice (died 1588) developed one of the first pumped water supply systems for the City of London, powered by undershot waterwheels housed in the northernmost arches of London Bridge spanning the River Thames.

Lord Lieutenant of Greater London

The ceremonial county of Greater London does not include the City of London, which has its own Commission of Lieutenancy.

Martins Bank

In 1558 Richard Martin was elected a liveryman of the Goldsmiths Company and later a Master of the Mint and Lord Mayor of the City of London.

Newington West by-election, 1916

Norton had already indicated his intention to stand down from the Commons at the next general election, and the City of London merchant J. D. Gilbert had already been selected as the Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate.

Peter Shepheard

He became best known for many landscape projects such as London Zoo, Bessborough Gardens, Bunhill Fields in the City, the restoration of Vanessa Bell's garden at Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex and various gardens in the United States including Central Green at the University of Pennsylvania campus and the Morris Arboretum.

Philip Lavallin Wroughton

He worked in the City of London, eventually becoming Vice-Chairman of one of the World's largest insurance and investment management businesses, Marsh & McLennan Companies of New York.

Polly Stenham

The daughter of Anthony 'Cob' Stenham, a City businessman, she had little contact with her mother after her parents' divorce, and she and her younger sister, Daisy, lived with their father.

Poultry Compter

Poultry Compter (also sometimes known as Poultry Counter) was a small compter, or prison, run by a Sheriff of the City of London from medieval times until 1815.

Queen Victoria Street, London

Queen Victoria Street, named after the British monarch who reigned from 1837 to 1901, is a street in the City of London which runs east by north from its junction with New Bridge Street and Victoria Embankment in Castle Baynard ward, along a section that divides the wards of Queenhithe and Bread Street, then lastly through the middle of Cordwainer ward, until it reaches Mansion House Street at Bank junction.

Queen's Counsel

These were Arthur Marriott (53), partner of the London office of the American law firm of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering based in Washington, DC, and Dr Lawrence Collins (55), a partner of the City law firm of Herbert Smith.

Redundant church

Population shift is another factor; for example, many redundant churches were formerly maintained in parishes situated in deserted or shrunken medieval villages (such as Wharram Percy in Yorkshire) and there are many disused churches in the now-sparsely-populated square mile of the City of London.

Rutland House

Rutland House on Aldersgate Street, near Charterhouse Square in the City of London, close to Smithfield Market, was leased by the playwright and impresario Sir William Davenant (1606–1668).

Sir William Curtis, 1st Baronet

A lifelong Tory, he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the City of London at the 1790 general election.

St. Mary's Church, Walthamstow

In 1535, Sir George Monoux, Alderman of London and Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, one of the guilds of the City of London, repaired the north aisle and built a chapel on the east end of it running along the north wall of the chancel.

Sui generis

For example in England, the City of London and the Isles of Scilly are the two sui generis localities, as their forms of local government are both (for historical or geographical reasons) very different from those of elsewhere in the country .

The Latymer School

Latymer was established in 1624 on Church Street, Edmonton by bequest of Edward Latymer, a London City merchant in Hammersmith.

The Skinners' School

Established in 1887, the school was founded by the Worshipful Company of Skinners (one of the 108 livery companies of the City of London) in response to a demand for education in the region.

The World My Wilderness

She discovers the bombed but flowering wasteland of the City of London in the shadow of St Paul's Cathedral.

Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley

The great City of London townhouse of the Berkeleys, known as "Berkeley's Inn", was at Puddle Dock by Baynard's Castle, close to the Blackfriars Monastery.

William Alexander Mouat

William Alexander Mouat was baptised on 9 April 1821 in Eastcheap, in the City of London.

Winterfold House

The views from Holmbury Hill are unsurpassed; on a sunny day you can see all the way back to The City of London and even see the sea through the Shoreham gap in the South Downs.

Worshipful Company of Skinners

The Worshipful Company of Skinners (known as The Skinners' Company) is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.

Worshipful Company of Upholders

The Livery and Liverymen are actively involved in many organisations and charities in the City of London including Castle Baynard Ward Club, as the site of the Company's Hall until the Great Fire in 1666 is in the Ward.

Wynne Ellis

In 1812 he became a haberdasher, hosier, and mercer at 16 Ludgate Street, city of London, where he gradually created the largest silk business in London, adding house to house as opportunity occurred of purchasing the property around him, and passing from the retail to a wholesale business in 1830.