Monument, 1900

At the foot of the Monument, c.1900

Cock Lane

In the junction between Snow Hill and Cock Lane, a road where the brothels were legal, we can find a terracota’s shopfront dedicated to John J. Royle. 

Born in Manchester in 1850, in the late Victorian epoch, this engineer became famous because of his many inventions: the egg beater, the timed egg boiler, the smokeless fuel irons... but it was the self-pouring teapot (patent no. 6327 of 1886) for which “J.J” became most well known.

Holborn Viaduct. 1910

Saint Bartholomew-the-Less

This palm is situated in the floor of Saint Bartholomew-the-Less. It's in the heart of London, between St Paul, Barbican and Farringdon. St Bartholomew-the-Less, which have this suffix to distinguish it from St Bartholomew the Great, is located in the Henry VIII Gate entrance to St Bartholomew Hospital.

Sigue con Nosotros (He Stays With Us)

Nowadays it’s difficult to walk around the city without listening Spanish speaking, but where was the Spanish community in London yesterday? 

The great comedian Berto Romero was performing, at 8 o’clock, in The Clapham Grand and no one wanted to miss it. One hour and a half of dancing, singing, music and laughs. Lot of laughs.

The show started with an hilarious video about Berto’s previous life. Risto Mejide and Andreu Buenafuente, of course, are some of the famous people who collaborate in it.

The Golden Boy of Pye Corner

In the junction of Cock Lane and Giltspur Street is the figure of the “Golden Boy of Pye Corner”.

This small statue was originally established into the wall of the Fortune of War, a public house in Smithfield. This tavern was famous because of its tenant, Thomas Andrews, who, in 1761, was condemned of sodomy and sentenced to death. The King George III exculpated him. This decision stimulated the first debate about homosexuality in England. In the 19th century, the tavern was the main centre for the resurrectionists. The doctors at St Bartholomew´s Hospital used to go to The Fortune of War to find death bodies to practice their surgeries. The bar was torn down in 1910. 

Meanwhile, Monument, which was enclosed by Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, was built between 1671 and 1677 to commemorate the start of the Great Fire of London, The Boy remembers where the Fire was extinguished. In the sculpture we can read:

The Fire started in a bakery at Pudding Lane and finished in Pye Corner. The child is fat to enforce the moral suggesting that another great fire would happen any day soon.