Dr Dorian Gerhold is an independent historian, and was formerly a House of Commons Clerk. He has written about carriers and stage-coaches, industrial history, Westminster Hall, London’s suburban villas, urban cartography, Chancery records and Putney (where he lives). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries, and a member of the Council of the London Topographical Society.

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• Author’s acknowledgements Abbreviations and notes on house numbering, measurements and currency 1. Introduction 2. Reconstructing the bridge and its houses 3. The houses from c. 1209 to 1358 4. The major buildings 5. The houses from 1358 to 1633 6. Inside the houses in the seventeenth century7. Fires and rebuildings 1633–82 8. Trading on the bridge 9. Families and community 10. The great rebuilding of 1683–96 11. From the fire of 1725 to the removal of the houses Appendices1. Reconstructing the plan of London Bridge 2. The reliability of the views of the bridge 3. Tracing the bridge houses back to 1358 4. The hearth tax of 1664–66 5. Rents on the bridge 6. The northern end of the bridge Notes Image credits Index

Dr Dorian Gerhold is an independent historian, and was formerly a House of Commons Clerk. He has written about carriers and stage-coaches, industrial history, Westminster Hall, London’s suburban villas, urban cartography, Chancery records and Putney (where he lives). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries, and a member of the Council of the London Topographical Society.

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• Author’s acknowledgements Abbreviations and notes on house numbering, measurements and currency 1. Introduction 2. Reconstructing the bridge and its houses 3. The houses from c. 1209 to 1358 4. The major buildings 5. The houses from 1358 to 1633 6. Inside the houses in the seventeenth century7. Fires and rebuildings 1633–82 8. Trading on the bridge 9. Families and community 10. The great rebuilding of 1683–96 11. From the fire of 1725 to the removal of the houses Appendices1. Reconstructing the plan of London Bridge 2. The reliability of the views of the bridge 3. Tracing the bridge houses back to 1358 4. The hearth tax of 1664–66 5. Rents on the bridge 6. The northern end of the bridge Notes Image credits Index

Dr Dorian Gerhold is an independent historian, and was formerly a House of Commons Clerk. He has written about carriers and stage-coaches, industrial history, Westminster Hall, London’s suburban villas, urban cartography, Chancery records and Putney (where he lives). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries, and a member of the Council of the London Topographical Society.

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• Author’s acknowledgements Abbreviations and notes on house numbering, measurements and currency 1. Introduction 2. Reconstructing the bridge and its houses 3. The houses from c. 1209 to 1358 4. The major buildings 5. The houses from 1358 to 1633 6. Inside the houses in the seventeenth century7. Fires and rebuildings 1633–82 8. Trading on the bridge 9. Families and community 10. The great rebuilding of 1683–96 11. From the fire of 1725 to the removal of the houses Appendices1. Reconstructing the plan of London Bridge 2. The reliability of the views of the bridge 3. Tracing the bridge houses back to 1358 4. The hearth tax of 1664–66 5. Rents on the bridge 6. The northern end of the bridge Notes Image credits Index