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  • May 24, 2022

    #40 Collyweston slate Part 2 – The stone and a visit to the Claude Smith mine!

    #40 Collyweston slate Part 2 – The stone and a visit to the Claude Smith mine!

    The previous Building London blog post, https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/05/24/39-collyweston-slate-part-1-the-city-of-london-guildhall-roof/  looked at the use of Collyweston Slate on the roof of the City of London’s Guildhall and even though while the Building London blog only concerns building materials used historically in London, and it is not at all certain that Collyweston was used on Guildhall before 1953,  because […]

  • May 24, 2022

    #39 Collyweston slate Part 1 – The City of London Guildhall roof

    #39 Collyweston slate Part 1 – The City of London Guildhall roof

    Building London has posted about Guildhall before, see https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/04/01/36-the-simply-gorgeous-guildhall-crypts/, one of London’s oldest, finest and most interesting buildings, and this post is about the magnificent Guildhall roof, covered with rare Collyweston limestone ‘slates’ from Northamptonshire! And it’s a mystery when it was first covered in these fascinating slates, and that’ll be discussed in part 1, […]

  • May 6, 2022

    38: The alcoves of Old London Bridge

    38: The alcoves of Old London Bridge

    One of the most obvious surviving relics of the Old London Bridge, ( though are they? read on! 😀 )  are the shell-like alcoves or shelters of the 1759-62 Portland stone faced bridge, that replaced the more famous bridge with it’s fantastic houses, gatehouses and chapel which was knocked down between 1758/9. But the ‘new-old’ […]

  • April 17, 2022

    37: The mystery of the Three Mills stones!

    37: The mystery of the Three Mills stones!

    Three Mills Island is a wonderful site for anyone interested in historical buildings and materials. [1] The Building London blog has already covered the magnificent granite paving by the Millhouse, itself full of historical building materials which, along with the associated buildings, will be blogged about on Building London in the future. https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/01/03/27three-mills-granite/ But behind […]

  • April 1, 2022

    36: The simply gorgeous Guildhall crypts

    36: The simply gorgeous Guildhall crypts

    The most exciting event so far on the London end of the Building London blog, as opposed to standing in, rowing across or gazing out of vast quarries in Devon, Cornwall, the Midlands or Wales, has been my, er, discovery of the Guildhall crypts! I had asked for, and received permission, to inspect and photograph […]

  • March 20, 2022

    35: London Bridge at Ingress. Part 2 – The Cave of the Seven Heads.

    35: London Bridge at Ingress. Part 2 – The Cave of the Seven Heads.

    Ingress Park at Greenhithe in Kent is full of 19th and 18thC follies and tunnels and caves associated with Ingress Abbey and the previous house that stood on that site. See previous post https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/03/20/34-london-bridge-stones-at-ingress-abbeypart-1/ However in terms of the remit of the Building London Blog, relevance to London’s building materials, one of these stands out… […]

  • March 20, 2022

    34: London Bridge stones at Ingress Abbey?Part 1

    34: London Bridge stones at Ingress Abbey?Part 1

    It has been said that the largest amount of the Old London Bridge [ see  https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/02/15/30-old-london-bridge-part-1/ ] that was to be re-used ended up down the Thames at Greenhithe in North Kent, for the building of Ingress Abbey and maybe some local walls, and some other bits and pieces, as noted by the Londonist and others. […]

  • March 10, 2022

    33: Old London Bridge at Wandsworth Common

    33: Old London Bridge at Wandsworth Common

    One of the best places to see some of the, and I think original, stones of the Old London Bridge, is on the north-west corner of Wandsworth Common. Though to be honest it’s not that exciting! [1] [2] There’s a row of large Edwardian houses, built in c.1908, that have their front garden walls constructed […]

  • February 25, 2022

    32: Stones of Old London Bridge at Beaumont Quay

    32: Stones of Old London Bridge at Beaumont Quay

    Out on the bleak North Sea coast marshes of Essex stands the abandoned Beaumont Quay, sat forlornly at the end of the mile long silted up tidal Beaumont Cut [1] that sliced through the estuary mud, marsh lands and hundreds of islands of the massive Hamford Water National Nature Reserve and RAMSAR site [3] [4] […]

  • February 22, 2022

    31: Old London Bridge: Part 2

    31: Old London Bridge: Part 2

    Part one of this two part post on the Old London Bridge that existed from 1196 to 1832, concentrated on what it was built and rebuilt from. see Part 1 here https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/02/15/30-old-london-bridge-part-1/ This much shorter second part of the post is going to concentrate on what happened to it all the bits after it was […]

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