Survey of London

All Contributions from david2

Vallance Gardens was actually a densely packed burial ground for the Society of Friends, in an era when Quaker burials had no monuments.…

Before Sainsbury's was developed there were two archaeological trial trenches dug on the east side of the site. A large wooden drain was…

This building, formerly used as a storage facility, was identified as the site of the Red Lion Shakespearean Theatre during assessment o…

Two trenches were excavated to evaluate the site for a new building, in 2010, supervised by me. They showed the area had been comprehen…

A neighbour - and former colleague - would go into the Queen's Head on Fieldgate Street. He said that the landlady claimed to be a Polis…

During a training excavation that I supervised on Allen Gardens, Buxton Street, an NVQ Level 3 student (Josh Frost) discovered that the …

During archaeological monitoring of substantial ground reduction on this site a culvert that predated, and was cut off by, the Co-op war…

During archaeological excavations of the "Boar's Head Playhouse" (an Elizabethan theatre, most of which is preserved and protected) I wa…

I just liked the contrasting colours and textures looking through the site of the former United Standard House, over to the City of London

This photograph shows monitoring boreholes in Vallance Gardens, in case they disturb human remains. In the event, only a few bones that had…

Tools for tuning bells - the old way, a tuning fork and ears; the new way, electronics. It's the skills that are lost when industry closes…

This is the rear of the hospital stripped right back, to 18th-century work where possible, during its conversion to a 'Civic Centre'. Soon …

During a very short visit to the site - while demolition was taking place - I took this photo. It was in an area preserved longer than othe…

The building had been designed to be topped with a weather vane that never appeared whilst it was a GREAT Library. When the Library was tak…