Tuesday, 3 December 2013

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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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"


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

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
St Georgs Kirche 18th-century Lutheran Church

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

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