tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745893693457784689.post1238093078483396573..comments2024-03-18T14:35:37.633-07:00Comments on Grace Elliot - blog.: Unofficial London - Then and Now, Pudding Lane.Pippa Elliotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10128414630918980034noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745893693457784689.post-1614078261377802112014-01-16T10:43:52.336-08:002014-01-16T10:43:52.336-08:00Wow, this site helped me a lot for my homework.
Th...Wow, this site helped me a lot for my homework.<br />Thanks a lot for putting it up, now I have got a high grade!!<br />It is so interesting to learn about our history, and how time has changed.<br />This site is really good!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745893693457784689.post-17402984100175334442012-11-20T08:11:22.082-08:002012-11-20T08:11:22.082-08:00Oh, I'm glad she enjoyed the post and hopefull...Oh, I'm glad she enjoyed the post and hopefully it brought some history to life and whetted her appetite for more.<br />Kind regards, <br />Grace xPippa Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10128414630918980034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745893693457784689.post-49399690907536863332012-11-20T08:10:35.871-08:002012-11-20T08:10:35.871-08:00I'm impressed you went up the Monument - as th...I'm impressed you went up the Monument - as they say, familiarity breeds contempt and it's often all too easy to ignore the attractions on your doorstep.<br />Thank you for visiting,<br />Grace xPippa Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10128414630918980034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745893693457784689.post-64317134958069232922012-11-20T08:09:33.630-08:002012-11-20T08:09:33.630-08:00Judith, I'm glad you got to the top!
When I w...Judith, I'm glad you got to the top! <br />When I was at school, my best friend had a birthday trip into London which involved going up the Monument. I got about a quarter of the way up and froze. It was something to do with being up in the air but not knowing how far off the ground - anyhow I had to slide down on my bottom and all I remember was overwhelming fear and a lot of grumpy people. <br />G xPippa Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10128414630918980034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745893693457784689.post-6790722457349778412012-11-20T08:07:28.528-08:002012-11-20T08:07:28.528-08:00How fascinating, and frightening - that you know o...How fascinating, and frightening - that you know of a more recent flour dust explosion. <br />And you are right, it is such a pity that the postwar planning wasnt more sensitively handled - plenty of scope their for future generations to correct.<br />thank you for leaving a commment,<br />Grace xPippa Elliotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10128414630918980034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745893693457784689.post-66790563380228320672012-11-16T23:01:34.993-08:002012-11-16T23:01:34.993-08:00I love this! My daughter is in Year 2 and studying...I love this! My daughter is in Year 2 and studying the Great Fire of London, so I was really interested to read it.SarahMummyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04103870858666628645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745893693457784689.post-66653724039486970582012-11-15T16:19:56.660-08:002012-11-15T16:19:56.660-08:00The City of London isn’t very pretty, is it?!
I u...The City of London isn’t very pretty, is it?!<br /><br />I used to live in an alley just off Fleet Street, in a building rebuilt the year after the Great Fire (Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, to be precise!), so the whole event is kind of morbidly fascinating to me.<br /><br />I’ve climbed “the Monument” more times than I can count, and still can’t figure out how ladies in the past got up and down that narrow thing in their enormous dresses!<br />I'm assuming they did, because there're engravings of it...Sonya Heaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04070103302766425454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745893693457784689.post-5847962370650882082012-11-15T02:14:25.476-08:002012-11-15T02:14:25.476-08:00lovely post Grace. I remember being taken on a sch...lovely post Grace. I remember being taken on a school trip to the monument, the view was pretty good from the top then but it doesn't look like it would be today.Judith Arnopphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10734149908148034800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745893693457784689.post-45201090856747712322012-11-14T16:01:23.868-08:002012-11-14T16:01:23.868-08:00Flour dust explosions are nasty and dangerous. My ...Flour dust explosions are nasty and dangerous. My hometown, Bremen in North Germany, suffered a big flour dust explosion in 1979, which leveled a flour mill and part of the harbour, damaged houses and broke windows up to half a kilometer away, killed 14 people and covered the working class neighbourhood adjacent to the harbour with flour. The resulting fire burned for a month - and fire fighting technology in the 1970s was a lot better than in the 1660s. So if a flour dust explosion could cause so much damage in 1979, it's easy to believe how it could have destroyed the densely packed City of London back in 1666.<br /><br />The London fire is also the reason why there are hardly any pre-17th century buildings left in London today. There's the Tower, Westminster Abbey, Lambeth Palace and that's about it. And those buildings only survived because they were outside the city limits in 1666. <br /><br />The City of London suffered badly both from WWII bombing damage and from badly planned postwar rebuilding. I've always thought it's a shame how the Monument has been wedged in by nondescript office blocks and Paternoster Square in the immediate neighbourhood of St. Paul's Cathedral used to be another example of horrible postwar urban planning. Paternoster Square redeveloped in the late 1990s and now looks much better and many of the ugly office blocks from the 1960s and 1970s in the City are now being torn down and replaced by new office blocks which are more aesthetically pleasing than the old buildings, e.g. Norman Foster's Gherkin. But the Monument is still covered up by buildings that are much too high. Cora Buhlerthttp://corabuhlert.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745893693457784689.post-18381674143932840902012-11-14T09:09:35.641-08:002012-11-14T09:09:35.641-08:00You are too kind, Elizabeth, glad you enjoyed the ...You are too kind, Elizabeth, glad you enjoyed the post. <br />Grace xGrace Elliothttp://graceelliot-author.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4745893693457784689.post-11031944919977541152012-11-14T01:32:54.173-08:002012-11-14T01:32:54.173-08:00Absolutely loved this post, Grace. Thank you x I s...Absolutely loved this post, Grace. Thank you x I so love your blogs. They really do bring history to life. x Elizabeth Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13980465039459052981noreply@blogger.com