The Lost City of London

by Jones, Robert Wynn

• ISBN13: 9781445648200
• ISBN10: 1445648202
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-08-15
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing

Summary

In 1666 London was devastated by the Great Fire, which gutted over 13,000 houses, over eighty parish churches and St Paul’s Cathedral. Robert Wynn Jones has set out to discover the original structures and streets that survived the Great Fire and can still be seen today.This book maps, describes and illustrates what remains of the City of the Black Death, the Peasants’ Revolt, the Reformation, the Civil War, and the Great Plague; the City of Chaucer and Shakespeare and Pepys. Discover the Roman ruins buried beneath Cannon Street Station, the seven parish churches that survived the blaze, the drinking establishments still open for business, and much more.

Author Biography

Robert Wynn Jones is a professional palaeontologist, interested amateur archaeologist and historian. His distant ancestor, John West, lived in a house near the Stocks Market, which was burnt down during the Great Fire of September 1666, and numbered among his acquaintances the famous diarist Samuel Pepys. Robert lives in London.