Comments on: In Search Of The Civil War In London https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/26/in-search-of-the-civil-war-in-london/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:17:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Stephen Donovan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/26/in-search-of-the-civil-war-in-london/#comment-1537952 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:17:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174333#comment-1537952 I’ve known about this for some time, but could never square the line that it took after leaving the river at Wapping.
What threw me was the presence on various old maps of a thoroughfare (?) named King David’s Fort, which I had assumed (wrongly) must have formed part of this battlement.
All clear now, though, thanks to your research.

Also, having lived in the area around “RAMPART Street” for 60+ years, how did I not make the connection?

]]> By: Caroline Lawrence https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/26/in-search-of-the-civil-war-in-london/#comment-1500293 Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:17:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174333#comment-1500293 Great article but one correction: the black dot is at 2 on the Horseguards Parade clock, not 10! (The 10 certainly refers to 10 minutes past the hour)

]]> By: Steve Stanley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/26/in-search-of-the-civil-war-in-london/#comment-1290315 Fri, 31 May 2019 12:20:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174333#comment-1290315 I got as far as Shoreditch when I tried the same walk…. Then the skies opened!..

]]> By: William Amos https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/26/in-search-of-the-civil-war-in-london/#comment-1289649 Tue, 28 May 2019 14:11:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174333#comment-1289649 “What have they done, or left undone,
That might advance the Cause at London?
March’d rank and file, with drum and ensign,
T’entrench the city for defence in;
Rais’d rampires with their own soft hands,
To put the enemy to stands;
From ladies down to oyster-wenches
Labour’d like pioneers in trenches,
Fell to their pick-axes and tools,
And help’d the men to dig like moles?”

From Samuel Butler’s Hudibras

]]> By: Charlie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/26/in-search-of-the-civil-war-in-london/#comment-1289468 Mon, 27 May 2019 10:48:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174333#comment-1289468 Great article TGA, I was just wondering if ‘Newington Butts which runs Borough Road to the Elephant and Castle is a diminutive of ‘Newington Buttresses’. The maps says ‘To Newington’ and the defences are in exactly the right spot.

]]> By: Harry Harrison https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/26/in-search-of-the-civil-war-in-london/#comment-1289460 Mon, 27 May 2019 09:58:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174333#comment-1289460 What an adventure! What an extraordinary telling of an historical event so few are aware of. It will give a completely new perspective when visiting these sites in future. As the citadel of Remainers perhaps we Londoners should all get our shovels out and emulate our revolutionary forefathers?
A brilliant piece. Thank you.

]]> By: Ros https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/26/in-search-of-the-civil-war-in-london/#comment-1289384 Sun, 26 May 2019 22:45:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174333#comment-1289384 What a feast of information and wonder! Thank you all so much; I had no idea. It’s great to have a contributing cartographer and historian on board. Wouldn’t the measurements of the fortifications have been in miles or even chains and furlongs rather than kilometres? No matter. It is so exciting to have the street names brought to life again – Cannon St Road, Rampart Street, Mount Street. And I’ll take another look at those mounds in Hyde Park when I’m next there. By the way, who is the soldier in Grosvenor Gardens studiously avoiding eye contact with Adam just as Adam is studiously ignoring him, and what uniform is he dressed in?

]]> By: Alexandra Rook https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/26/in-search-of-the-civil-war-in-london/#comment-1289378 Sun, 26 May 2019 21:34:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174333#comment-1289378 Fascinating piece: have never noticed the blackened 10 on Horseguards clock – thank you for highlighting that & the mounds in the Park. I particularly relished the historic images; where did you source them from & was it easy ?

]]> By: Peter Hurst https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/26/in-search-of-the-civil-war-in-london/#comment-1289335 Sun, 26 May 2019 16:03:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174333#comment-1289335 Wonderful read. Thanks.

]]> By: Paul Langhsm https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/26/in-search-of-the-civil-war-in-london/#comment-1289331 Sun, 26 May 2019 15:11:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174333#comment-1289331 Thank you for an extremely interesting and insightful article. How many times have I walked up Mount Street and never thought about it having anything to do with the English Civul War Nor did I realise that the English created such barricades the type of which I thought was reserved for Victor Hugo and ‘Les Miserables”.

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