National Apprenticeship Week 2024

National Apprenticeship Week 2024

Construction is well under way for our new centre for eye care, research and education. Bouygues UK, our construction partner, has recruited apprentices in a wide range of roles to support the project. To mark National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) 2024 last week Bouygues...
Archaeological dig online public talk – Tuesday 30 January

Archaeological dig online public talk – Tuesday 30 January

On Tuesday 30 January Rosita Greco, senior archaeologist at the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), will give an online public talk about what the MOLA team found on the Oriel site. The archaeological dig was part of Oriel’s planning permission granted by Camden...
Watch footage from the Oriel site – the cranes are up!

Watch footage from the Oriel site – the cranes are up!

A lot happened on the Oriel site in 2023. This video (two minutes, 30 seconds) shows demolition of six existing buildings on the site, an archaeological dig carried out by the Museum of London Archaeology and four cranes installed in October and November. The video...
The big reveal: archaeological update from the Oriel site

The big reveal: archaeological update from the Oriel site

Back in June we shared some exciting finds from below the surface on the Oriel site. For the past five months a team of archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) have been uncovering the foundations of a 19th Century workhouse to help us understand...