This gate was made in the London Wall early in the 15th century to allow access to Moor Fields, marshy moor-land outside the wall. By 1606 the area had been improved and became London's first public park, still open to the public as Finsbury Circus gardens.
See Cripplegate for the full list of 8 gates of old London.
This Alan Eisen flickr page will take you on a walk of the Wall, showing many of the blue-bordered plaques. The Museum of London created a 2 mile long London Wall Walk in 1983, marked with 23 love...
First conserved in 1959 by the Ministry of Works when it was in the basement of the then new General Post Office. Â The picture source is a report by the developers of the current building.Â
Originally a Roman gate it was rebuilt a number of times: 1108–47, 1215, 1607-09, that last adding a statue of James I above the gateway. As a customs official Chaucer lived in the rooms above the...
Originally Roman, rebuilt in 1471, again in 1735 and then demolished in 1760. See British History On-line for a drawing of the last gate). See Cripplegate for the full list of 8 gates of old London.
Newgate was the western exit through the Roman London Wall. In later years the gate house was about 100 feet wide. Part of this building was used, from at least the 12th century, as a prison and th...
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