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"reimagined" ugh, it's as if they watched W1A and thought it was a documentary. I doubt their jobs will be "Reimagined not to exist anymore", either, to quote from that programme
Jon Combe | Homepage | 02.02.21 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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Urgh, that tower is impressively obnoxious.
Hopefully it stays a render for a long time, because no-one is going to stump up for so much new office space right now.
Kevin | 02.02.21 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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Boundaries have a patron saint? Didn't know that, but probably not surprising when even coffee house owners, murderers and the impossible have patrons.
St Botolph must have been napping when planners redrew the boundaries around his church.
commonliner | 02.02.21 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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I looked up the etymology of Portsoken. It means a soke by a gate, or port. And a soke means a ward or district, so Portsoken ward would seem to be tautological
I went to Streetview the train shed, which is a good view. Fyi the road is St Botolph Street, not Road.
dg writes: Fixed thanks.
Ian | 02.02.21 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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Is that Middlesex block the most distant orphan of the pedway network?
dg writes: Yes.
toby | 02.02.21 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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Other than never having heard the name Portsoken before, it was a post of two halves - the first being a street I'm more familiar with and the second half being something new.
I remember being astounded and delighted to hear children playing in a school in the City the first time I encountered it! Had no idea its name had changed - but that's what lockdown has done. I was due to be at St Botolph's this week for a meeting!
Cornish Cockney | 02.02.21 - 10:03 a.m. | #
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Nicely portrayed DG.
Stuart R | 02.02.21 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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Well, that ended badly.
For those of you who enjoy an organised walk (in less locked down times), the London Ambler does a great stroll through this ward and it’s environs, starting at Tower Hill and arcing round to the Barbican.
Philip | 02.02.21 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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Beaufort House only has 12 floors, I used to work on that floor, but work from home now...
And the crazy golf is on the 3rd...
;-)
dg writes: Updated thanks.
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 02.02.21 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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The previous Beaufort House was owned by P&o, and at the front looked like the bridge of a ship.
Heritage concern should stop the vandalism of The Still and Star.
scrumpy | 02.02.21 - 10:53 a.m. | #
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Libraries are also available for anyone working in the area, which in normal times would greatly increase possible usage.
Andrew S | 02.02.21 - 11:41 a.m. | #
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Aaargh, now I am all sad about the pub.
Sarah | Homepage | 02.02.21 - 11:57 a.m. | #
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I thought "insane." might be superlative and then I scrolled down! What a bonkers piece of redevelopment.
Who on earth signed off rebuilding a slum pub? It's interesting because it's original, a rebuilt version makes zero sense. Surprised this was approved when the pub has been classed as an Asset of Community Value, I thought the point of those was to prevent development.
Also, it's very telling when even pro-development articles don't include the whole building in the photos.
TomH | 02.02.21 - 11:58 a.m. | #
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Funny how Portsoken House is on the Minories though.
Andrew Jarman | 02.02.21 - 12:32 p.m. | #
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I worked at the old P&O building. The highlight was the paternoster lift, especially if you stayed on it after the top floor! I never realised the ward was called Portsoken.
dg writes: Photo (of the building, not the lift)
Philip | 02.02.21 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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I was struck by the architectural cleverness of Aldgate Square's coffee loitering central pavilion building, in that it connects to and reuses the old pedestrian subway that went under the gyratory as its kitchen/ storage/ facilities. And hence is quite a lot larger underground than above ground.
It's called the Portsoken Pavilion, which is why the name of the ward sounded familiar.
David C | Homepage | 02.02.21 - 7:14 p.m. | #
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Do you have any info on the underground shopping centre at Aldgat East that is now sealed? I think it was called Aldgate Bars. I I used to walk through it to work daily many years ago.
Roger | 02.02.21 - 11:39 p.m. | #
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Roger - Aldgate Bars closed about 3 years ago. I think this was related to to the building works in the building above. It had a very busy Wetherspoons pub, and a few popular snack bars which always seemed to have queues at lunchtime. I assumed the closure must have been a landlord decision rather than lack of tenants. Other shops there included, I think, a Boots opticians and a hairdresser.
I have no inside information, this is just what I thought and observed at the time.
amber | 04.02.21 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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Aldgate Barrs was folded in to the office development above it, which was initially an RBS building but then redeveloped as a modern co-working office. I think it was worth more to the landlord as office square footage than as a separate retail space. I suspect they also had half an eye on the gradual closure of the once-extensive surrounding subway network that supplied some of its customers.
David C | 04.02.21 - 8:54 p.m. | #
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thanks for the Aldgate Barrs info. I used to walk from Shadwell to Liverpool St but then we moved to Canary Wharf so now walk the other way!
roger | 07.02.21 - 3:47 p.m. | #
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