City of London
The City of London is where, around 2,000 years ago, the Romans founded the settlement they called Londinium. Surrounded by a wall for centuries, this was the historic city which grew into modern London, and the place marked by fire and plague.
Known as the Square Mile, the City of London has by far the lowest population of all 33 London boroughs, at around 8,000 people. But as a financial centre, home to banks, insurers and law firms, in the daytime that number swells to over 500,000.
An estimated 10 million visitors come each year to see sites like the St Paul’s Cathedral, the Bank of England, the Barbican Centre and, from 2026, London Museum.
There’s history around every corner here. Fleet Street is no longer the home of London’s newspapers. But reporters still gather around the Old Bailey, the City’s historic criminal court.
The Barbican estate is an icon of Brutalist architecture in the City of London.
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A little corrective To be applied when the patient is troublesome (valentine card)
Dobbs
1810-1838
A little Guardian I'll take care of Missis when Master's away (valentine card)
Dobbs
1810-1838
A London Crossing Sweeper and Flower Girl (oil painting)
Mulready, Augustus E.
1884
A magazine seller at Ludgate Circus, 1893 (polyester negative)
Martin, Paul Augustus
1893
A New Panorama of London (hand coloured aquatint)
Ingamells, Andrew
2000
A Perspective View of the inside of St. Stephens Church in Walbrook London. (engraving)
Wren, Christopher
1736-1745
A plan of the City and Liberties of London after the dreadful conflagration in the year 1666 (map)
Hollar, Wenceslaus
1756
A Porter at Billingsgate Fish Market, Lower Thames Street, City of London (negative)
Grant, Henry
1950-1960
