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Fore Street, London

Index Fore Street, London

Fore Street is a street in the City of London near the Barbican Centre. [1]

33 relations: Barbican Centre, Basil Spence, Bassishaw, Batsford, Chandlery, Christopher Hibbert, Church of England, City of London, Confectionery, Cripplegate, Daniel Defoe, Ebenezer Howard, Elizabeth Cromwell, F&W Media International, Finsbury Pavement, Fore Street, Garden city movement, Great Fire of London, John Milton, John Speed, London Wall, Martin Frobisher, Middle Ages, Oliver Cromwell, Patron saint, Postern, Saint Giles, St Giles-without-Cripplegate, Tallow, The Blitz, Wood Street, London, Worshipful Company of Butchers, Worshipful Company of Salters.

Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe.

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Basil Spence

Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM, OBE, RA (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style.

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Bassishaw

Bassishaw is a ward in the City of London.

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Batsford

Batsford is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England.

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Chandlery

A chandlery was originally the office in a medieval household responsible for wax and candles, as well as the room in which the candles were kept.

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Christopher Hibbert

Christopher Hibbert (born Arthur Raymond Hibbert) MC (5 March 1924 – 21 December 2008), was an English author, historian and biographer.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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Confectionery

Confectionery is the art of making confections, which are food items that are rich in sugar and carbohydrates.

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Cripplegate

Cripplegate was a gate in the London Wall and a name for the region of the City of London outside the gate.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.

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Ebenezer Howard

Sir Ebenezer Howard (29 January 1850 – 1 May 1928), the English founder of the garden city movement, is known for his publication To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), the description of a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature.

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Elizabeth Cromwell

Elizabeth Cromwell (née Bourchier; 1598–1665) was the wife of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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F&W Media International

F&W Media International Limited, formerly known as David & Charles Publishers (also styled as David and Charles), is a publisher of illustrated non-fiction books, eBooks, digital products, craft patterns and online education courses.

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Finsbury Pavement

Finsbury Pavement is a short length of street connecting Moorgate with City Road in the London Borough of Islington.

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Fore Street

"Fore Street" is a name often used for the main street of a town or village.

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Garden city movement

The garden city movement is a method of urban planning in which self-contained communities are surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of residences, industry, and agriculture.

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Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 of September 1666.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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John Speed

John Speed (1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer and historian.

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London Wall

The London Wall was the defensive wall first built by the Romans around Londinium, their strategically important port town on the River Thames in what is now London, England, and subsequently maintained until the 18th century.

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Martin Frobisher

Sir Martin Frobisher (c. 1535 – 22 November 1594) was an English seaman and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the North-west Passage.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English military and political leader.

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Patron saint

A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or particular branches of Islam, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person.

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Postern

A postern is a secondary door or gate in a fortification such as a city wall or castle curtain wall.

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Saint Giles

Saint Giles (Aegidius; Gilles; 650 AD – 710), also known as Giles the Hermit, was a Greek, Christian, hermit saint from Athens, whose legend is centered in Provence and Septimania.

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St Giles-without-Cripplegate

St Giles-without-Cripplegate is a Church of England church in the City of London, located on Fore Street within the modern Barbican complex.

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Tallow

Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton fat, and is primarily made up of triglycerides.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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Wood Street, London

Wood Street is a street in the City of London, the historic centre and primary financial district of London.

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Worshipful Company of Butchers

The Worshipful Company of Butchers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, England.

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Worshipful Company of Salters

The Worshipful Company of Salters is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, 9th in order of precedence.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fore_Street,_London

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