Building London – what London is made from and where it came from!

High up on Dartmoor, very beautiful in summer and very bleak in winter, and no more than a mile from the grim Dartmoor Prison, lies a group of large granite stones that once upon a time were destined for London. These blocks of granite, corbels, [ stone struts ] were cut in the early 1900s…

Hi! My name is Glyn Harries and this last couple of years I’ve developed a keen interest in what London is, and was, made from, the bricks, the stones, the wood, the concrete and artificial stone, the metal and all the rest, and more so, where it, or they, all came from. So the brickpits…