The Steelyard black plaque
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# The Steelyard Black Plaque Story Standing on Hanseatic Walk, you're positioned at the heart of a remarkable medieval trading post where German merchants created one of London's most autonomous foreign communities—a self-governing enclave that thrived for six centuries while maintaining an almost ...
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Hanseatic Walk
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To celebrate sixty years of peace between the peoples of Britain and Germany & To commemorate six hundred year during which some 400 Hanseatic merchants inhabited peaceably in the City of London from the XIIIth to XIXth Centuries a German self-governing enclave on this site known as the Steelyard, Stilliarde or Stalhof