[1] Visit to Swelltor granite quarry in Devon – abandoned corbels for 1901 London bridge widening https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/07/31/a-visit-to-swell-tor-quarry-in-devon/
[2] Visit to Foggintor granite quarry in Devon – used for Nelson’s Column and more
https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/04/foggintor-quarry/
[3] Devon granite from 1830s London Bridge at Pickets Lock Sports/Leisure Centre
https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/10/london-bridge-picketts-lock/
[4] Visit to Lamorna quarries and port – granite used in County Hall and The Embankment https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/11/4-lamorna-or-lands-end-granite/
[5] Visit/ row across Trolvis quarry! Granite used in Westminster Cathedral and old Waterloo Bridge https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/12/5-carmenellis-granite-part-1-trolvis/
[6] Visit to another Cornish granite quarry with abandoned stone maybe bound for The Embankment https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/14/6-carnmenellis-part-2-the-lost-london-stones/
[7] Visit to Cheesewring quarry. Granite from here used in Tower, Lambeth and Westminster bridges https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/15/7-cheesewring-quarry-on-bodmin-moor/
[8] Visit to Kennall Vale quarry – granite possibly used in Embankment works in 1928 https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/16/8-kennall-vale/
[9] Visit to Luxulyan quarry – granite used in Rennie’s London Bridge, British Museum, Crystal Palace
https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/18/9-luxulyan/
[10] Mile End Lock rubble wall from 1820
https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/19/10-mile-end-lock-wall/
[11] Penryn old port where lots of London bogranite used in London was exported from https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/20/11-penryn-the-granite-port/
[12] Visit to Kit Hill quarry – granite used to build Battersea Bridge https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/22/kit-hill-granite-as-used-to-build-battersea-bridge-and-much-more/
[13] Mediaeval bricks at Sutton House in Hackney https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/23/13-16thc-bricks-in-hackney-the-arcadia-beyond-moorfields/
[14] Totternhoe quarry – a chalk or clunch used medieval London https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/08/26/14-totternhoe-stone-a-chalk-you-can-build-with/
[15] Visit to Beer chalk mine – used in Roman medieval London https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/09/02/15-beerstone-another-chalk-you-can-build-with-and-nothing-to-do-with-beer/
[16] Visit to Chwarel Trefor – granite setts probably used in London! https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/10/09/chwarel-trefor-trefor-quarry/
[17] The Notting Dale Kiln – a pottery, tile, drain pipe and maybe brick kiln https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/10/13/17-the-notting-dale-kiln/
[18] Natures Throne – a Cornish granite waterworks ‘henge’ in Hackney https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/10/30/17-natures-throne-and-the-hackney-henge/
[19] Crystal Palace dinosaurs from the old City of London and Normandy https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/11/26/19-a-jurassic-tale-of-a-giants-crypt-in-the-city-of-london-and-the-crystal-palace-dinosaurs/
[20] The mediaeval and maybe Roman walls at Huggin Hill in the City https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/12/10/the-huggin-hill-roman-and-medieval-walls/
[21] Upper Watergate Street in Deptford – maybe the oldest existing street surface in London! https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/12/12/21-upper-watergate-street-the-oldest-street-surface-in-london/
[22] The shiny blue iron slag scoria bricks of Teeside at Stepney Green https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/12/17/22-stepney-green-scoria/
[23] Visit to the John Watson Building Stones Collection at Cambridge https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/12/20/23-the-john-watson-building-stones-collection-at-the-sedgewick-museum-in-cambridge/
[24] Kentish Ragstone introduction – a very well used stones in Roman and mediaeval London
https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/12/26/24-kentish-ragstone-an-introduction-to-the-most-important-historical-stone-in-london/
[25] Visit to Kentish Ragstone quarries near Maidstone https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/12/27/25-kentish-rag-pt2-foxs-quarry-and-the-loose-valley-near-maidstone/
[26] Granite Setts at the Middlesex and Essex Filter Beds https://buildinglondon.blog/2021/12/30/22-granite-setts-at-the-middlesex-and-essex-filter-beds/
[27] Historic road setts in Lamerton and Albury Roads in Deptford https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/01/01/27-the-historic-road-setts-of-lamerton-and-albury-streets-in-deptford-aka-lewisham-leave-those-setts-alone/
[28] Granite roadway and setts at Three Mills at Bromley by Bow https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/01/03/27three-mills-granite/
[29] Visit to Bardon Hill quarry – Leicestershire granite that paved London https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/01/19/29-charnwood-forest-granites-pt-1-bardon-hill-granite/
[30] Old London Bridge – from 1209 – Part 1
https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/02/15/30-old-london-bridge-part-1/
[31] Old London Bridge Part 2 .. where did it end up! https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/02/22/31-old-london-bridge-part-2/
[32] Old London Bridge stones at Beaumont Quay on the Essex North Sea coast https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/02/25/32-stones-of-old-london-bridge-at-beaumont-quay/
[33] Old London Bridge stones at Wandsworth Common https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/03/10/33-old-london-bridge-at-wandsworth-common/
[34] Old London bridge stones at Ingress Abbey – maybe https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/03/20/34-london-bridge-stones-at-ingress-abbeypart-1/
[35] Old London Bridge stones at Ingress Abbey – The Cave of the Seven Heads https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/03/20/34-london-bridge-at-ingress-part-2-the-cave-of-the-seven-heads/
[36] The gorgeous Guildhall Crypts
https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/04/01/36-the-simply-gorgeous-guildhall-crypts/
[37] The mystery of the stones of Three Mills Island https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/04/17/37-the-mystery-of-the-three-mills-stones/
[38] The alcoves of the mid-18thC London Bridge at Victoria Park, Guys and in East Sheen
https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/05/06/38-the-alcoves-of-old-london-bridge/
[39] Collyweston slate and the Guildhall roof
https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/05/24/39-collyweston-slate-part-1-the-city-of-london-guildhall-roof/
[40] Visit to the Collyweston slate mine in Northants https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/05/24/40-collyweston-slate-part-2-the-stone-and-a-visit-to-the-claude-smith-mine/
[41] London’s yellow stock brick
https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/07/12/41-londons-canary-yellow-stock-brick/
[42] The clay that burns! The Fletton ‘London Brick’ from Bedfordshire https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/07/27/42-the-clay-that-burns-the-london-brick-company-and-the-fletton-brick-that-built-much-of-20thc-london/
[43] An unusual wall, of very ‘old’ stones in Homerton – setts, cobbles and boulders!
https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/07/29/43-unusual-wall-in-homerton/
[44] Visit to the Ancaster ‘streaky bacon’ quarries https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/08/06/44-ancaster-and-its-streaky-bacon-stone-pt1/
[45] Ancaster stone in the Clapton Round Chapel https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/08/06/45-ancaster-pt2-the-clapton-round-chapel/
[46] Ancaster stone in the old Hackney Central Library https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/08/07/46-ancaster-stone-pt3-the-hackney-central-library/
[47] A balustrade of the 18thC London Bridge at Gilwell Park. Or not! https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/08/24/47-london-bridge-balustrade-in-gilwell-park/
[48] More London Bridge granite at Waltham Abbey https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/08/26/48-more-of-the-old-london-bridge-at-waltham-abbey/
[49] Pulhamite: An intro and a visit to Broxbourne https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/09/01/49pulhamite-pt1-an-introduction/
[50] Pulhamite Cascades at Battersea Park
https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/09/06/50-the-pulhamite-cascades-at-battersea-park/
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