The City of London Corporation has in the last week of January 2021 green-lighted the planned construction of a new 30-storey office development at 55 Gracechurch Street. This is the Square Mile’s first tall building approval of 2021 and demonstrates the Corporation’s optimistic outlook for the post Brexit and post-Covid future of the City.
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This is second part of an article regarding “Time and Tide”, Plantation Lane, which is an art installation by Simon Patterson. Please see part one for a general description of the lane and the elements of the art installation.
To the many hurried commuters who pass by, whilst transfixed to their smartphones, Plantation Lane simply provides a convenient pedestrian passageway connecting Rood Lane, next to St Margaret Pattens church, to Seething Lane, opposite the main steps of Minster Court. It is however much more than just an alleyway and hangout for office smokers.
This post on The Circus is a continuation of the main article on Dances’s Square, Crescent and Circus which gives an overview and sets the context of this series of posts.
This post is a continuation of the main article on Dances’s Square, Crescent and Circus which gives an overview and sets the context of this series of posts. There are further posts on the related locations of The Crescent and Circus as part of this series.
This post is a continuation of the main article on Dances’s Square, Crescent and Circus which gives an overview and sets the context of this series of posts. There are further posts on the related locations of The Crescent and Circus as part of this series.
In an earlier post regarding the remains of the Roman city wall at Cooper’s Row, the adjacent location of The Crescent, EC3 was featured several times. I had originally intended just to add a few lines about the history of The Crescent as a side note in that post, but whilst researching further into its history I discovered it is part of a wider story which includes the neighbouring locations of America Square and the now vanished Circus.
Following on from the late summer media frenzy, over the problem of the “Solar Death Ray” being reflected from 20…
With the sudden media interest following an incident reported in the press in the last day or so regarding a Jaguar car being partially melted whilst parked on Eastcheap in the City of London, I thought I’d pop over and take a look for myself this lunch-time.