{"id":492,"date":"2006-05-24T02:20:08","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T01:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=492"},"modified":"2015-03-07T21:48:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T20:48:05","slug":"the-essex-street-water-gate-london-wc2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/05\/24\/the-essex-street-water-gate-london-wc2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essex Street Water Gate, London WC2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"watergate5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/watergate5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He crossed the road and went into the darkness towards the little steps under the archway leading into Essex Street, and I let him go. And that was the last I ever saw of him.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.online-literature.com\/wellshg\/4\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Diamond Maker<\/a> (1894) by HG Wells<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"watergate4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/watergate4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Old and New London \u2013 Its History, Its People and Its Places (1878).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>London&#8217;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 gate in Essex Street dates back to t0 1676, and was used for a time as an emblem by Methuen publishers when they had their premises here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"watergate3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/watergate3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>A plate from The Romance of London by Alan Ivimey (1931).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"methuen1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/methuen1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Methuen imprint (1931).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image490\" alt=\"watergate1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/watergate1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>An etching by Edgar Holloway (1934).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"methuen2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/methuen2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Methuen imprint (1948).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image491\" alt=\"watergate2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/watergate2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Water Gate as it was on the afternoon of 18th May, 2006.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-etching-and-engraving-archive\/\">The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He crossed the road and went into the darkness towards the little steps under the archway leading into Essex Street, and I let him go. And that was the last I ever saw of him. The Diamond Maker (1894) by HG Wells Old and New London \u2013 Its History, Its People and Its Places (1878). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/05\/24\/the-essex-street-water-gate-london-wc2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Essex Street Water Gate, London WC2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,42,51,12],"tags":[4434,264],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-cities","category-photography","tag-edgar-holloway","tag-hg-wells"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}