Two men who put the stone circle at Avebury on the map never met, but both had a passionate interest in the stone circle.
Hodge the Cat & Dr Johnson!
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) was a poet, essayist, literary critic and lexicographer. He is known for writing ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’, which took him 9 years, whilst he lived in Gough Square.
Go back in time – its only 5 minutes from Liverpool Street Station!
If you walk north down Bishopsgate for 5 minutes and you get a street off to the right called Folgate Street. At number 18, lies a museum house known as Dennis Severs’ House.