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Thames Street, divided into Lower and Upper Thames Street, is a road in the City of London, the historic and financial centre of London. [1] It forms part of the busy A3211 route (prior to being rebuilt as a major thoroughfare in the late 1960s, it was the B132) from Tower Hill to Westminster .
All-Hallows-the-Great was a church in the City of London, located on what is now Upper Thames Street, first mentioned in 1235. [1] Destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666, the church was rebuilt by the office of Sir Christopher Wren .
The church stood on the south side of Thames Street in Dowgate ward, to the east of the All Hallows the Great. In some early records it is called "Allhallows on the Cellars", as it stood on vaults. The steeple and choir were built over an arched gateway, which formed the entrance to a house called Cold Harbour. [2] The area was known as The Ropery.
The Custom House, on the north bank of the Thames in the City of London, is a building which was formerly used for the collection of customs duties.A custom house has been present in the area since the 14th century, and a building on its current site has been rebuilt on a number of occasions.
It was built on the churchyard of the former All-Hallows-the-Great on Upper Thames Street . It was built on a 2.5-acre site. It cost £18m, with £11m for the telecommunications equipment. In September 1971, Plessey Telecommunications was given a £10m contract. It had the TXK type of switching equipment. The site was planned to open in 1975 ...
Execution Dock was a site on the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts. The "dock" consisted of a scaffold for hanging. Its last executions were in 1830.
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The new Coal Exchange was built on the north side of Thames Street, on the east side of its junction with St. Mary-at-Hill, with four floors. [2] A Roman hypocaust was found during the excavation of the building's foundations, part of the Roman house at Billingsgate, and preserved in its basement and is now a scheduled monument.