On the banks of the River Thames at Greenwich from 1443 to 1660 sat a spectacular palace. It was the Palace of Placentia.
The Palace of Placentia
A return ticket to Devil’s Dyke Adventure Park please!
The Devil's Dyke V-shaped dry valley is the result of solifluction and river erosion more than 14,000 years ago. In the late 19th century though, it was turned into an adventure park.
How London looked in 1572
In 1572, cartographers Georg Braun from Germany and Frans Hogenberg from Belgium produced an early birds-eye detailed map of London.
Shakespeare’s Money!
In 1610, if you asked someone in London who William Shakespeare was, they would say ‘a poet’. If you asked someone in Stratford-upon-Avon the same thing, they would say ‘a property owner’.
Rotherhithe & the HMS Temeraire
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Rotherhithe was a place on the Thames were ships were broken up.
