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| Cripplegate Ward Club is a social organisation for those who take an active interest in understanding and appreciating the traditions, history and workings of the Ward and the City. It provides an excellent way to meet and to socialise with a wide range of people connected to and involved in the City and is a great way into the Civic and social activities of the area providing the chance for those connected with the Ward, in whatever way, to meet each other and the Alderman and Common Councilmen that represent the Ward. The Club also support appeals and charitable activities.
Cripplegate is among the busiest of the 20+ Ward Clubs in the City of London, with a varied programme of events throughout the year. There are both daytime and evening activities ranging from informal visits and tours of general interest, to the most formal of Civic Lunches and City Banquets. We visit some interesting places revealing facets of the City not normally seen and of course being a social club, these very often include luncheon or dinner somewhere nice too. All great fun. Membership of the Club offers an opportunity to discover and appreciate the traditions and fellowship of City Life. If you live in the Cripplegate Ward district or have business here we invite you to Join our Club and activities - just click on the 'Join us' link to get the ball rolling. There is no stipulation that members reside within the Ward (or even within London), only that they have a direct, or indirect interest in the Civic, Social or Business affairs of the City and of course guests of members are most welcome at all functions.
The Millennium Dome is so big that it can fit the Great Pyramids of Giza comfortably under the roof! The structure is 365m in diameter; and 52m high in the middle; with 12 supporting poles, symbolising days, weeks and months of the year.
Number 10 Downing Street will open its gardens on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th June 2023 for the first time since 2019, joining over 100 unique places not normally open to the public. As part of London Open Gardens, tickets will be issued through a public ballot system, with lucky visitors getting the chance to wander around the garden of the Prime Minister's official home. link to more . . .
In December 2021, the clock face was revealed to show the work that has taken place, including the restoration of the original colour scheme. While the name Big Ben nowadays refers to the entire clock tower, 'Big Ben' is actually the name of the largest bell inside the tower, used to chime the hours and has been keeping time in the UK capital since 1859. See more at www.parliament.uk
MAGNIFICENT MAPS OF LONDON On at the London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB. This exhibition opened last October and has proved so popular it has been extended to March. It brings together a collection of maps of London from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. From the first surviving map of the City, Civitas Londinium,to the present - a Black History map of the underground with alternative names for the stations. Civitas Londinium on display for the first time since extensive conservation treatmentshows the character of Tudor London. The detailed maps by Ogilby (seventeenth century), Rocque (eighteenth century) and Horwood (late eighteenth century) are reproduced as large wall maps. At one glance you will truly appreciate the huge size of London even in those days and the contrasts between different areas. Maps like these, when created, were often used as a form of high status interior decoration by those proud of their ever growing capital. Other maps chart the physical state of London after catastrophic events, for example, Leake’s survey of the City immediately after the Great Fire, engraved by Hollar and the LCC bomb damage map. Other maps reflect the concerns of their time, for example, land ownership, water conduits, living conditions, epidemics, employment, insurance, immigration patterns, all a valuable historical record of aspects of London life and death. On one wall there is Charles Booth’s late nineteenth century poverty map while on another there is the most comprehensive survey – the Atlas of London 1968. There are maps created for planning issues showing the distribution of immigrants from Ireland and the Commonwealth. Also the practical everyday maps to guide residents or tourists for example, a mid-nineteenth century maps by John Tallis illustrated by H Lacey. Maps of transport routes planned and existing. If you have not been, make haste. Conservator brushing the Civitas Londinium map in preparation for the exhibition . . . . |
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