Rebuilt with a tiled roof the second globe was demolished in 1644 2 years after the puritans closed all of england s theatres.
London landmarks with a thatched roof.
Weighing in at 13 tons the clock tower s bell was cast.
The globe theatre is a reconstruction of the original open air playhouse where shakespeare worked and where many of his plays were staged.
The church depicted could well be st mary magdalen with its surviving medieval tower.
The globe received special permission to build a thatched roof as there has been a ban on thatched roofs in london since the great fire in 1666.
He also shows the other thatched roofs of all shapes and sizes.
That then lay just across the river from the tower and the city of london.
The original globe theater famed for its association with william shakespeare opened in 1599 but burned to the ground in 1613 when wadding from a stage cannon ignited the thatched roof.
Blackfriars or mansion house both district and circle lines or london bridge northern and jubilee lines the london eye.
A trip to london would not be complete without a visit to one of london s most famous landmarks the houses of parliament and big ben.
This rare glimpse of tudor thatching depicts what is perhaps an elaborate smoke hole.