The Origins of London
The Ancients
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London and It's Early Developments
London is very much a working city in its early decades. It gains bath houses quite early, doors, but we don't know much about them. The important structures are actually big gravelled areas where wagons can be loaded and unloaded. But london doesn't really move into the business of building splendid architecture until a little bit later on. After nero's overthrow, after civil war of 80 69, with the arrival of vespasian, that's when we start to see a lot more attention being given to the infra structure of public architecture.
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