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Welcome to a new website dedicated to historic buildings in the City of London. Over the coming weeks, we will be adding image galleries, videos, archive film footage, news items and snippits…
Restoration of Victorian fountain completed
The restoration of the St. Lawrence Jewry Fountain, which now stands at the East end of Carter Lane near St Paul’s Cathedral, was completed in August 2010. The Victorian fountain…
Restoration of Southwark Bridge completed
After three years of grit-blasting, scaffolding and polyethylene wraps, Southwark Bridge has been returned to its original bright colours of green and yellow. More than 1,000 tonnes of expandable abrasive…
Restoring the North Arch on Tower Bridge
Harris Digital Productions captures the restoration work taking place on Tower Bridge during the night time road closures last year. This short video shows contractors working on the arch under…
Restoration of Tower Bridge completed
AFTER three years of grit-blasting, paint analysis, abseiling engineers, scaffolding, cradles and polyethylene wraps, the most famous bridge in the world has been restored to all its majestic glory –…
Work starts on Tower Bridge Walkways
On Monday 28 June, the final stage of the Tower Bridge re-painting work will begin. The new paintwork, which has a life expectancy of 25 years, is essential to protect…
St Paul’s drinking fountain springs to life
The first fully certified drinking fountain in London for 30 years was switched on at 11am on Friday 21 May. The fountain is alongside St Paul’s Churchyard, near the City…
