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"A lavishly illustrated guide to the parts of historic London you can see and touch." London's story is full of surprises. Although the city suffered destructive fires and the devastating Blitz of the Second World War, a remarkable amount of objects, monuments and fragments of buildings from the past have survived. *Who would have thought that the entire Roman quayside of the Port of London was still intact under the streets, well inland from the present line of the Thames? It was all there - massive timbers representing great swathes of English oak forests - waiting to be discovered during the redevelopment of the City in the 1980's. *Archaeologists, breaking through the basements of nineteenth century buildings, have shown that London has gone from boom to bust and back again many times in its history. We now have proof that much of the walled city was deserted during four centuries of Saxon rule. At times it must have seemed positively rural! *Perhaps most fascinating of all was the discovery of the first big bust - the fire that devastated London in AD 60. Archaeologists, working six metres (sic) beneath the modern streets, came across the charred debris of the disaster - scorc

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Author

Billings, Malcolm

Publisher

Kyle Cathie Ltd., London

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781856261531

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Travel, History

Rating

4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14