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Last week I led a fascinating Jewish history walk from one side of the old Roman city of London to the other. Across the “square mile” as it were. From Newgate to Aldgate, west to east.
As recently as 2006 Stephen Halliday published Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell, which is duly credited here. But if you want to glimpse the barbarism on which our admired, world-famous city is ...
According to the exhibition, no spot in the City of London is more ... for having escaped multiple times from Newgate and became a symbol of freedom for London's working classes.
The Museum of London is a curiously underappreciated City jewel, rarely stuffed to the ... a wife of Edward I and built at Newgate, along the Roman wall. It was the second-largest church in ...
The smell of stale cigarettes and the three-pint working lunch may be long gone, but drinking has never fallen out of fashion in the City of London ... date back to Newgate Prison.
HSBC Holdings Plc is still two years away from a planned move to a smaller City of London headquarters ... it will be renting on Newgate Street, where Orion Capital Management is overhauling ...
Part of our Best Pubs in London microsite. Is your local listed ... The other notable feature is the cellar, said to contain cells either from Newgate prison or else the neighbouring Giltspur ...
The City of London was once surrounded by a defensive wall, originally built by the Romans and enlarged in the middle ages. It was served by several gates, whose names are still in evidence today.