2-632-249 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'One of the Forts erected by the Parliament for the defence of London during the Civil War', c1808, (1912). One of the Forts erected by the Parliament for the defence of London during the Civil War (1642-1651). Fortifications were commissioned by Parliament and built around London between 1642 and 1643 to protect the capital from attack by the Royalist armies of Charles I (1600-1649). In the plan of London published in 1806 in Lambert’s History of London, this is marked in Kent Street as Oliver Cromwell’s (1599-1658) Castle. From London - South of the Thames, by Sir Walter Besant. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1912]