July 6, 2003
Temple Bar returning to London
Temple Bar is coming home. London's last surviving gate, a Grade I listed building, has spent more than a century buried in Hertfordshire woodland, drowning in nettles and brambles, targeted by pigeons and vandals. Its days in the countryside are now numbered and it will be on the road again as soon as its more than 1,000 stones are numbered and dismantled.Read all about it here.By the end of next year it should be standing once more in the capital, relocated from its original site in Fleet Street to form a gateway into the new piazza at Paternoster Square beside St Paul's Cathedral.
Posted by David on July 6, 2003 10:56 PM
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Having visited the camping club site at Theobolds park over many years and seeing the Temple Bar buried in the woods i am very pleased to think at last this wonderful old piece of history should be going 'home'
Posted by: J GORDON on October 8, 2003 5:03 AM
in the 1950s when i saw this piece of history i could never have belived.it would go back to were it belongs.well done
Posted by: a.beer on March 1, 2005 8:17 AM
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