Roman ruins of Libyan Leptis Magna on the edge of London

On the western fringe of London - on the edge of reservoir Virginia Water - are the ruins of part of Leptis Magna in Libya. Part of a landscape of power and privilege including Windsor Great Park and the Wentworth Golf Club... ...and as bonkers as conkers.

Leptis magna ruins from David Sankey

http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/media/123360/leptis_magna_ruins.pdf

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Thomas Paine's London

Tom Paine Taught at Mr Noble's Academy in Mill Yard, off Leman Street.--- scroll down below

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From Dock Street to 99 Leman St

Underneath arches Dock St

Mill Yard - where Mr Noble's academy was and Thomas Paine taught

Mill Yard - where Mr Noble's academy was and Thomas Paine taught

Mill Yard - where Mr Noble's academy was and Thomas Paine taught

Mill Yard - where Mr Noble'

North of Mill Yard had previously been a vast open "brickfield" quarry that stretched almost as far as Whitechapel High Street, and in the excavation of which a great many - probably hundreds - of Roman graves were exhumed. The west side was untouched and there are some buildings remaining from his time (near a "closed" police station, home of Metropolitan Police Specialist Firearms Squad)

Jean Rocque 1746 -- Mill Yard in "box"

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Late 18th-c Grade II-listed 68 Leman Street

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Part of a group with its two neighbours... It may well have stood when Thomas Paine Taught dow

Around the Corner on Alie Street, was the German Lutheran Church, ministering to the pauperised german immigrant community, many of which were sugar bakers

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St Georgs Kirche 18th-century Lutheran Church

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This church served a very poor german immigrant community in the 18th century, where family members exploited brutally other family members, particularly women and children who did not speak English. They typically worked in the sugar-making industry . Click onhttp://www.mawer.clara.net/white3.html for more