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The Cabinet June 24, 2026 · City of London

The Last Great London Plague Killed About a Quarter of the City in Eight Months

Between the spring and the autumn of 1665, plague killed roughly 70,000 to 100,000 Londoners — about a quarter of the city's population. It was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in England. Six months later the Great Fire burned down most of the worst-affected districts.

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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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