The Essex Street Water Gate, London WC2
May 24, 2006
A plate from The Romance of London by Alan Ivimey (1931).
London’s water gates date from the time before the building of the embankment and the road on the north side of the river, when the tidal wash reached a lot closer to the buildings (and former palaces) that follow The Strand and Fleet Street. The [...]
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