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Revision as of 23:27, 2 June 2003 by Harry Potter (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Limehouse is a place in London, England in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539 - 1678), the exponent of opening up the North west Passage lived here. This inspired Martin Frobisher to sail to Greenland returning with a mysterious black rock. Gilbert set up the Society of the New Art with Lord Burghley and the Earl of Leicester who had their alchemical laboratory in Limehouse. However their attempts to transmute the black rock into gold proved fruitless. (Humphrey's brother Adrian Gilbert was reputed a great alchemist and worked closely with John Dee.)
Saint Ann's church, Limehouse was built by Nicholas Hawksmoor. A pyramid originally planned to be put atop the tower now stand in the graveyard. The church is next door to Limehouse Town Hall, home of the Spacejackers. Across the road is the Sailors' Mission, where the Situationist International held its conference in 1960. The building subsequently became a run down hostel for the homeless which became notorious for its squalor.
LImehouse library has a statue of Clement Attlee, the local M.P. who sanctioned the use of Nuclear weapons against civilian tragets in 1945.
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