Unknown London Walter George BELL Audiobook
0Unknown London Walter George BELL Audiobook
Chapter Time
Preface 00:00:00
The Head of the Duke of Suffolk 00:05:33
Remains of the City Wall 00:27:25
The Shrine of Edward the Confessor 00:55:06
Ghosts in the Tower of London 01:29:05
The Domesday Book 01:45:17
An Old City Merchant's Mansion 02:11:22
London's Roman Baths 02:31:19
Wapping High Street 02:42:44
London Stone 03:11:33
The Bones of Men-Kau-Ra 03:28:39
The Baga de Secretis 03:51:34
London's Lost King 04:17:50
The Fires of Smithfield 04:29:20
Waxworks in the Abbey 04:51:00
A Lost Invention 05:09:06
Letters from London During the Great Plague 05:26:58
The Bells of St. Clement's 05:54:52
A London Household of A.D. 1337 06:08:50
Unknown London
Walter George BELL (1867 - 1942)
Herein you will find much concerning those things which everybody knows about, but nobody knows — the things you have known about since childhood, and have been content to leave them at that, knowing little of what they are and still less where they are to be found. I have dealt mostly with the big things that London has in its keeping, such as the Domesday Book (can you tell me off-hand where it is to be seen ?); with the Confessor's Shrine (of the crowds who enter Westminster Abbey there is a big leaven who do not even know that it is there); with the massive fragments of London's Roman Wall that still survive; with that spot in Smithfield where martyrs burnt and English history was made; with the Duke of Suffolk's head and its dramatic story; with our Roman baths; with London Stone and odd others. … The City of London — the innermost "square mile" — is the richest ground for historical associations in all our world Empire, and the greater pity, therefore, that it should be unknown. (Summary from the author’s Preface, 1919.)
Genre(s): History
Language: English