Christ Church Newgate Street 1941 IN9171 which brilliantly illuminates an essential

which brilliantly illuminates an essential and much-misunderstood chapter of our history

The Lord and Lady of May can be seen on the left hand side (the 'Lady' may in fact be a man) and also a rough hurdy-gurdy player and other disreputable characters in the throng

Looking south

enabling watermen to ferry river workers and passengers in their boats

and they keep remaking it in a thousand different ways

Christ Church Newgate Street 1941 IN9171 which brilliantly illuminates an essentialChrist Church, Newgate Street. Incendiary bombs gutted Christ Church during the Blitz. Impression of east end of church, built by Wren, as it looked from nave the morning after it had been gutted by incendiary bombs from a Nazi air attack. Viewed from the nave, this painting shows the east end of the church as it looked the morning after the attack. Because of the Pastoral Reorganisation Measure in 1949, a number of the City parishes amalgamated,