Worst. Replica Ship. Ever. Archaeologists are probing a wharf in Deptford for remnants of The Golden Hind(e), the famous flagship of Sir Francis Drake, alerts the Standard. The learned mudlarks are trowelling their way through Convoys Wharf in the first attempt since the 1970s to …
Photo courtesy of University College London Belmarsh Prison in Plumstead is renowned for its high-profile inmates (Jeffrey Archer, Charles Bronson, Abu Hamza al-Masri or even the recently released Ronnie Biggs) but it just added another claim to fame to its record. The idea of the …
Boring news. A new academy for tunnel engineering is to be opened in London in 2010. The academy will support the immense Crossrail project, and will coach workers in skills such as shaft excavation, drilling, blasting, and appeasing balrogs. Possibly. A chthonic workforce of over …
London’s earliest known tidal mill has been uncovered in the peaty ooze of Greenwich Wharf. The structure dates from the late 12th Century, a time when London received its first Mayor, and King Dick was off crusading. Domesday Book notes three such mills in Greenwich …
For many of us, the idea of Knights will always be intrinsically linked to Monty Python and The Holy Grail. All those moments and dire rhymes in song (“We are Knights of the Round Table and we dance whenever we are able”; Sir Robin the …
Here’s an idea. Build temporary cofferdams in historic stretches of the Thames so that archaeologists can really get to work. It’s amazing what you can find beneath a river that’s served a city for 2000 years. Image by M@. Got an idea for a Touch …
Scientists at the Natural History Museum who have been analysing big cat skulls excavated from the Tower of London in the 1930s have today confirmed that there were Barbary Lions from North Africa with magnificent dark manes resident at the Tower of London Royal Menagerie …
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