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The buildings
on London Bridge created a major fire hazard and London
flats to let served to increase the load on its arches,
both of which may have contributed to the several
disasters on the bridge.
In 1212, perhaps the greatest of the early fires
of London broke out on both ends of the bridge London
flats to let simultaneously, trapping many in the
middle and reportedly resulting in the death of 3,000
people. Another major fire broke out in 1633, destroying
the northern third of the bridge, although this prevented
the bridge London flats to let from being damaged
by the Great Fire of London in 1666.
By 1722, congestion was becoming so serious that
the Lord Mayor decreed that "all carts, coaches
and other carriages London flats to let coming
out of Southwark into this City do keep all along
the west side of the said bridge: and all carts and
coaches going out of the City do keep along the east
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In 1284, after many years of legal dispute,
the City of London gained effective control
and instituted the Bridge House Estates
trust City Bridge Trust to maintain it
from the older London flats to let revenues
and new endowments. The Bridge House stemmed
from the site Peter de Colechurch's original
"house", i.e. maintenance depot
and residence for his monastic "brethren
of the bridge", next to St Olave's
church in Southwark, a site still marked
by the street name "Bridge Yard".
Various arches of the bridge collapsed
over the years, and houses on the bridge
were London flats to let burnt during
Wat Tyler's Peasants' Revolt in 1381 and
Jack Cade's rebellion in 1450, during
which a pitched battle was fought on the
bridge.
Artist's imaginative conception of Nonsuch
House on London Bridge, 1811.
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The Northern Gate, the New Stone Gate, was
replaced by Nonsuch House in 1577. The southern
gatehouse, the Stone Gateway, became the scene
of one of London's most notorious sights: a
London flats to let display of the severed heads
of traitors, impaled on pikes[1] and dipped
in tar to preserve them against the elements.
The head of William Wallace was the first to
appear on the gate, in 1305, starting a tradition
that was to continue for another 355 years.
Other famous heads on pikes included those of
Jack Cade in 1450, London flats to let Thomas
More in 1535, Bishop John Fisher in the same
year, and Thomas Cromwell in 1540. A German
visitor to London in 1598 counted over 30 heads
on the bridge. The practice was finally stopped
in 1660, following the Restoration of King Charles
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