After the great fire of London St Mary-Le-Bow was rebuilt in1679. Edward Pearce a mason was paid £4 for carving a wooden model on which the dragon was based and the coppersmith Robert Bird who made the dragon was paid £38. The dragon is 9feet long and 221 feet above the street.
Ever since The Grasshopper on the Royal Exchange and the Dragon were erected after the fire of 1666 Londoners have imagined a relationship between the two creatures, often reflecting the uneasy tension between organised religion and commerce.
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Skryme a 19th century apothecary predicted that when the Grasshopper on the royal exchange, shook hands with dragon on Bow church fearful events would take place
In 1820 an architect was repairing both vanes and for a time the dragon and grasshopper were together in the same workshop.
Within a year Mr Skryme reported that:- King George III had died; the sudden death of a royal duke; in France another duke had been murdered; there had been radical meetings in all parts of the Kingdom; the bloody scenes in Manchester (Peterloo); the great plot in Cato Street and Queen Caroline, estranged wife of George IV had returned to England
