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Unsettling snow - very good
Richard | 08.02.21 - 7:31 a.m. | #
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A dull walk but an interesting read, and crikey the Mohocks - what peaceful times we now live in.
peter | 08.02.21 - 8:03 a.m. | #
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How fast the City changes. I worked around there just over a year ago and thought "What large empty space is he on about?". But yes, I wouldn't mourn the building that used to stand there.
Chz | 08.02.21 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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If it ever is built, Citycape House will be a pleasant sight. I hope they have more luck maintaining a green wall than my local (redeveloped) Sainsburys whose mere 30m square of verdant green above the main entrance soon became and remains a tangled mess of brown weedy growth. The birds seem to enjoy it though.
Frank F | 08.02.21 - 9:30 a.m. | #
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Greenery on buildings must be difficult to make self maintaining, but the old Wiggins Teape building in Basingstoke survives.
Joho | Homepage | 08.02.21 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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Did you visit Scratching Fanny in Cock Lane?
Mike Newman | Homepage | 08.02.21 - 10:10 a.m. | #
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Mike Newman beat me to it!
I really missed Aly Mir's excellent Holborn & Farringdon walks during 2020!
Cornish Cockney | 08.02.21 - 12:12 p.m. | #
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It is a strange coincidence that London and Birmingham both have railway tunnels called Snow Hill, both providing important routes through the city centre and both closed and subsequently reopened around the same time.
kev | 08.02.21 - 12:20 p.m. | #
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As you say, nothing of the tunnel is visible from the street, But an anonymous door on the right as you descend is an emergency exit from Thameslink.
The church has what looks like a protruding porch at the main entrance: in fact. it's the remains of a watchtower erected to deter graverobbers.
Re the 25 turnaround: prior to lockdown I spent far too much time waiting on dull rainy days for an 8 into town, having been turfed off the 25 since it inexplicably began terminating at this place of tumbleweed.
MartinL | 08.02.21 - 4:10 p.m. | #
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Up here in Salford we are apparently about to be graced with a new building covered in greenery. Apparently the planning committee were unanimous in their support. Given previous developments, this is not necessarily a good omen.
mark addy | 08.02.21 - 5:42 p.m. | #
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Fascinating the way history changes places from being an important thoroughfare into becoming a backwater of little value or interest, where its current appearance belies its more interesting past.
As you say, it doesn’t look much today, but when you stand at the bottom end by Farringdon Street, just below Holborn Viaduct and look back up it towards St Sepulchre’s church, you get a good impression of the geographical challenge presented by the Fleet Valley to London's previous, pre-motorised travellers. For example, Dickens in Nickolas Nickleby, describes the problems horses had in negotiating the gradient.
One of the delights of the area that can still be found (I hope) is Snow Hill Court at the top of Snow Hill. It is a small courtyard area behind St Sepulchre’s church. At the western end, on a boundary wall is a plaque describing precisely where the Parish Boundary is located. You can also see the old parish school building, and at the eastern end the rear of the parish Watch House. Very necessary to protect the graves given the churches proximity to St Bart’s Hospital.
It is one of the delights of going off the beaten track in the City. I look forward to re-visiting the area when the current lockdown comes to an end.
IanD | 08.02.21 - 10:59 p.m. | #
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