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Depiction of Nonsuch House in Old and New London, Illustrated (1873) Nonsuch House was a four-storey house on London Bridge, completed in 1579. It is the earliest documented prefabricated building. [1] Originally constructed in the Netherlands, it was taken apart and shipped to London in pieces in 1578, where it was reassembled, with each ...
Views of Old London Bridge ca. 1440, BBC London; Southwark Council page with more info about the bridge; Virtual reality tour of Old London Bridge; Old London Bridge, Mechanics Magazine No. 318, September 1829; The London Bridge Experience; The bridge that crossed an ocean (And the man who moved it) BBC News, 23 September 2018
Thames river, London 1209–1831 The number of houses on the bridge reached a maximum of 140. Many of the houses were later merged, into 91. In the seventeenth century, almost all had four or five storeys. All the houses were shops, and the bridge was one of the City of London's four or five main shopping streets.
Old London Bridge: 12th–17th centuries: 1758–1831: River Thames: Houses on the bridge were demolished in 1758–1762, the rest after the completion of a new bridge by John Rennie in 1831. Old Mansion House: 1668: 1929: Cheapside: Built by Sir Christopher Wren for Sir William Turner, Lord Mayor of London from 1668 to 1669. Old Queen's Head ...
The Bridge House Estates took its name from Bridge House, which was the administrative and maintenance centre of Old London Bridge located on the south bank of the River Thames, near the site of St Olave's Church (since replaced by St Olaf House in Tooley Street). The site, now covered by the London Bridge Hospital and the Cotton's Centre, was ...
A new London Bridge was eventually built alongside the old and was opened with great ceremony on 1 August 1831; the demolition of the old bridge commenced straight away. During the first half of 1832, the arches and then the piers were dismantled, exposing the vaults and columns of the Lower Chapel, an event that was recorded by Edward William ...
Nonsuch Palace came to Anne of Denmark as her jointure property as the consort of King James VI/I. [5] The royal Prince Henry and Princess Elizabeth, the future ‘Winter Queen’ of Bohemia were lodged at Nonsuch for a time in 1603. [6] The Great Park remained the property of Lord Lumley until he surrendered the lease to the queen in 1605. [7]
Other surviving examples of medieval halls in London can be found in Guildhall (1440) which once served as London's city hall, although this was largely altered after The Great Fire of London. Old Hall of Lincoln's Inn (1492) which retains its original hammerbeam roof. An idealized illustration of Old St. Paul's Cathedral. The nave was built in ...