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74: Return to Luxulyan: Rock Mill Quarry
When Building London visited the awesome Luxulyan Valley, [1] “the deep and romantic gorge known as the Luxullian or Rock Valley,” [2] with it’s incredible 1842 Treffry viaduct, in 2021, as the valley was a major source of 19thC London building granite, being used in the John Rennie’s 1831 ‘New London Bridge’, now mainly in…
73: London Bridge … at Kew Gardens!
Another set of the stones identified by Vic Keegan years ago are at Kew Gardens. Keegan states “John Mowlem, the building company which demolished the bridge offered some of the surplus granite blocks – it had around 200 in all with an average weight of two tons – to Kew Gardens. Kew took four of…
72: More of London Bridge, or maybe not! … at Barking!
The Building London blog has blogged a lot about the wide dispersion of bits of the various London Bridges before, and here in Barking are a couple of granite blocks from Rennie’s bridge, or maybe not! Read on! See https://buildinglondon.blog/2022/02/22/31-old-london-bridge-part-2/ but note these discoveries follow other’s leads, listed below. So are they from London Bridge?…
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