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David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

So... How did you celebrate Bridewell Day this week? As is customary, I was at a moderately incomprehensible City Service with the top brass of the City of London Corporation, a couple of hundred private school kids and some bemused parents. What's a Bridewell Day? Well then...

An eighteenth century print of Bridewell Hospital showing the clock tower and the interior of one of quadrangles

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David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Bridewell was a palace built by Henry VIII on the Thames in the early 1500s. It was on the other side of the road from where Blackfriars station is today. You can see the Fleet on the eastern side of the building on this print here...

Illustration of Bridewell Palace looking north from the Thames

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David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It was huuuuuge, extending from the river almost as far north as St Brides church. Today it's floorplan is occupied by this rather magnificent, if bland, chain hotel. And when Edward VI succeeded his dad, he wasn't that fond of it.

A photo of the world's largest Premier Inn

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