55 Gracechurch Street

The City of London Corporation has in the last week of January 2021 green-lighted the planned construction of a new 30-storey office development at 55 Gracechurch Street. This is the Square Mile’s first tall building approval of 2021 and demonstrates the Corporation’s optimistic outlook for the post Brexit and post-Covid future of the City.

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Time And Tide: Plantation Lane

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.

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London’s Roman City Wall: The Obscured – Part 08
Wormwood Street

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.

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