This post provides an update of the changes which have occurred in the Trinity Place / Tower Hill area since my original post of 2013.
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 is the eighth in a series, which is aimed at documenting all the surviving sections of the Roman city wall, and will focus on part of the northern section of the wall which stretches from Bishopsgate in the east, to the Barbican Estate in the west, where it would have met with the existing walls of the earlier Roman garrison.
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.
The continuation of my quest to discover the obscured bits London’s Roman City Wall, this post searches for remains of the wall in and around Cooper’s Row.
Following on from the late summer media frenzy, over the problem of the “Solar Death Ray” being reflected from 20…