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The Footnote June 24, 2026 · Old London Bridge

The Four-Story Wooden Palace That Was Shipped to London in Pieces and Pegged Together on Top of the Bridge

Nonsuch House was a four-story prefabricated Dutch timber palace built in the Low Countries in 1577, dismantled, shipped to London, and reassembled on Old London Bridge using only wooden pegs. It stood there for 180 years, was demolished in 1757, and gave its name to a generation of substantial-luxury London building.

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The Cabinet June 18, 2026 · Old London Bridge site, City of London

The Bridge That Was a Street and a Dam

Old London Bridge stood for six hundred years, carried houses and shops on its back, and dammed the river so completely that the Thames froze upstream. When they tore it down in 1831 the river never froze again.

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The Footnote June 8, 2026 · River Thames at Old London Bridge, London, England

The Winters They Roasted Oxen on the Thames

Between 1608 and 1814 the river through London froze solid often enough to hold fairs on its surface. Then they tore down a bridge, and it never froze again.

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