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Leadenhall Street
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The overlays that highlight 17th century London features are approximate and derived from:
- Built-up London – Hollar's 1666 map before the Fire
- City of London wall and Great Fire damage – Hollar's 1666 map after the Fire
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Terry F Link to this
Leaden Hall Street
is a major E-W street 1/3 down from the top of this section of the 1746 map
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Leaden Hall Street.
At the coronation of Charles II, the first triumphal arch erected in Leadenhall Street, near Lime Street, for the king to pass under on his way from the Tower to Westminster, is described in Ogilby's contemporary account of the ceremony as having in its centre a figure of Charles, royally attired, behind whom, 'on a large table, is deciphered the Royal Oak bearing crowns and sceptres instead of acorns; amongst the leaves, in a label
"----------- Miraturque novas
Frondes et non sua poma."
(----------- Leaves unknown
Admiring, and strange apples not her own.)
(Book of Days.)