The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . Thomas Gresham was alsosaved, and is now in Gresham College. All other statues and deco-rations perished in the fire that destroyed this second edifice. This fire happened on the 10th of Jan.
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . Thomas Gresham was alsosaved, and is now in Gresham College. All other statues and deco-rations perished in the fire that destroyed this second edifice. This fire happened on the 10th of Jan., 1838: it began shortlyafter ten oclock at night, and before three oclock next day the wholepile was a heap of smoking ruins, except the tower, which, withthe clock faces pointing by the hands to twenty-five minutes pastone, remained for some months to remind the citizens of Londonof their misfortune, and the exact moment of its greatest extremity. Having thus slightly sketched the history of the Royal Exchange,from its original foundation by Gresham to its second destruction, itonly remains to describe very shortly the circumstances under whichthe present magnificent structure was reared, and to give a slightdescription of it, accompanied by a view and two plans. As soon after the fire as was practicable, application was made toParliament for powers to improve the site of the intended new build-. birds-eye view of the second royal exchange. ROYAL EXCHANGE. 369
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