Bomb damage close to St Paul's Cathedral 1942 George William Joy the City Corporation instructed its

the City Corporation instructed its architect

The buildings on the right were demolished to make way for Victoria Tower Gardens in the early 20th century

Originally the tower of London was a simple timber and earth enclosure in the south-east angle and formed by the joining of the original east and south stone walls of the old Roman town of Londinium Augusta

fighting and rioting against the forces gentrifying the capital

Bomb damage close to St Paul's Cathedral 1942 George William Joy the City Corporation instructed itsPeople in the City go about their daily lives surrounded by the wrecks of bomb damaged buildings surrounding St Paul's Cathedral. By the end of May 1941, over 43,000 civilians, half of them in London, had been killed by bombing and more than a million houses destroyed or damaged in London alone.