PLAGUE OF LONDON
GRUESOME REMINDER DISCOVERY OF REMAINS LONDON. Sept. 19 Human remains representing 800 people were discovered during the rebuilding of the Bank of England. Ninety-eight-complete skeletons were reinterred at the bank's expense. The remains mostly were those of victims of the great, plague of 1665.
The excavators also found the skeleton of Jenkins, a Bank of England giant, who was interred in the bank precincts to prevent body-snatchers stealing the corpse. It is computed that about 70,000 people died in London as the result of the plague.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19340921.2.85
Bibliographic details
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21911, 21 September 1934, Page 11
Word Count
89PLAGUE OF LONDON New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21911, 21 September 1934, Page 11
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries and NZME.
Log in