The say The Tun "stood here between 1283 and 1401 and was used in the main to incarcerate ‘street walkers and lewd women’. Stocks and a pillory replaced it and in 1703 Daniel Defoe, who had a shop in nearby Freeman’s Court, was made to spend a day in the pillory for writing an inflammatory pamphlet." And from : "a prison for night-walkers, called the Tun prison, built in 1283, somewhat in the form of a tun standing on end."
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Tun prison, Cornhill
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Cornhill pump
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Hallifax Vyvyan Wells
Solicitor and local politician in Finchley. Councillor 1914-20, 1926-35; Mayor 1933-4; Alderman 1935-50. This image, showing Wells in his ceremonial robes, comes from the film of the 1933 Finchley...
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Robert Davis
Solicitor and Westminster Councillor. Mayor of Westminster 1996/97.
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John Compton Lawrance, QC, MP
High Court Judge. Came from Lincolnshire. From Plymounth Law Review we learn: "John Lawrance was Conservative MP for South Lincolnshire for ten years, from 1880 to 1890, until his appointment as ...
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Claire Holder
"Dr. Claire Holder is from Trinidad. A Notting Hill Resident since the 1960s, she became the Chairperson and Chief Executive of the Notting Hill Carnival 1989 until 2002. Claire is a practising bar...
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Fig Tree Court
Fig Tree Court , 1515 - 1666, was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, rebuilt in 1679 and again destroyed by enemy action 1940.
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