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Lovers of peerless Arts and Crafts interiors and a decent pint are very much encouraged to venture beyond the facade of the Black Friars.
David | 03.08.21 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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Indeed David, been too long since I visited that pub!
Mikey C | 03.08.21 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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The City has been getting really bollardy of late.
The World Bollard Association would approve.
Jon Jones | 03.08.21 - 10:08 a.m. | #
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These posts on the wards of London are just fantastic. Again I have been to various sited before but now armed with this added information I will be visiting again.
Fascinating information about John Betjeman.
The Black Friar Pub is a place I try to visit at least once on any trip to London.
Michael | 03.08.21 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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Sadly at Barts Square, before redevelopment started, a lot of the redundant buildings were actually nurses accommodation. Much needed but now, as you point out, replaced with £1.5M two bed apartments for no one to live in.
BJ | 03.08.21 - 11:31 a.m. | #
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The house/flat in Greyfriars has just been put on the market - and been snapped up.
Bobby | 03.08.21 - 11:51 a.m. | #
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I think it's a bit deceptive to say that the Central Criminal Court opened 'instead' when Newgate closed: there has been a courthouse in the Old Bailey, originally adjoining the prison, since the seventeenth century, though the present building dates from the 1900's.
Andrew M | 03.08.21 - 12:07 p.m. | #
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I always have trouble spelling Farringdon. The London, Devon, Hampshire and Sunderland versions seem to have the double R, whereas the Oxfordshire one, and the former mayor, seem to make do with a single one.
Malcolm of Kent | 03.08.21 - 1:14 p.m. | #
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I used to work in Playhouse Yard at what was then Nestor House, but is renamed Mintel House. Being next to Apothecaries Hall, the building is on the site of the first chemical laboratory in England.
That was after a couple of years in Church Entry (for the same company, which had a cluster of buildings in the area). Next door in the old Vestry Hall was the Friends of Friendless Churches, a lovely charity.
The company's other main site in the cluster was 69 Carter Lane, which contains at the back of the ground floor a substantial piece of pre-fire gothic masonry from the old Blackfriars church.
AlanBG | 03.08.21 - 3:27 p.m. | #
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Long live City Thameslink as it is - a time capsule of what BR considered to be good station design when it was planned in the mid 1980.
Marc | 07.08.21 - 7:29 p.m. | #
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