Conduit Street was part of a parcel of land bought by the Corporation of London to safeguard the conduits taking drinking water to the City. At Cheapside, London's chief marketplace, the pipes ...

Fourteen firefighters and five members of the Salvage Corps died tackling a blaze at a whisky bond in Cheapside Street, on 28 March 1960. It was the biggest loss of life ever suffered by the UK's ...