Viewpoints – Placecloud (English)

London, United Kingdom. St Olaf House stands on the site of an ancient church dedicated to St Olaf. It once stood at the southern end of old London Bridge - a bridge that may have been torn down by a Viking fleet: a fleet commanded by the very same Olaf...

London, United Kingdom. The Church of St Olave on Hart Street is one of London's oldest medieval churches. Known to Dickens as 'Saint Ghastly Grim' and dedicated to a notorious Norwegian king, its likely origins lie in the Viking Age.

London, United Kingdom. Before Devonshire House was the headquarters of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain from 1794 until 1925, it was a large house called Fisher's Folly.

London, United Kingdom. The Gravel Pit Chapel was home to a radical religious congregation, now buried in a walled-off graveyard in Hackney.

Potters Bar, United Kingdom. Waltham Abbey was the first official Quaker school for boys, established by George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, in 1668.

London, United Kingdom. Shacklewell was the first official Quaker school for girls, established by George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, in 1668.

London, United Kingdom. Before there was St John-at-Hackney, there was St Augustine's Church, which was Hackney's parish church from 1275 to 1789.

London, United Kingdom. In the 17th century, the Salmon school was one of the biggest and most renowned girls' schools in the London area and the country. The school taught girls from middling and elite families for approximately 40 years.

London, United Kingdom. Palestine Place was the nineteenth-century headquarters of the London Jews Society, an Anglican missionary society that worked to demonstrate the value of Christianity to Jewish populations.

London, United Kingdom. Bunhill Fields was the burial ground for more than 123,000 nonconformists in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.