Bomb damage close to St Paul's Cathedral 1942 George William Joy Originally the tower of London

Originally the tower of London was a simple timber and earth enclosure in the south-east angle and formed by the joining of the original east and south stone walls of the old Roman town of Londinium Augusta

Though his plan was never built

Shepherd's Bush

offered Jerrold and Doré the vast sum of £10

too big to fit down the Thames

Bomb damage close to St Paul's Cathedral 1942 George William Joy Originally the tower of LondonPeople in the City go about their daily lives surrounded by the wrecks of bomb damaged buildings surrounding St Paul's Cathedral. By the end of May 1941, over 43,000 civilians, half of them in London, had been killed by bombing and more than a million houses destroyed or damaged in London alone.