The old King Lud pub, now a Leon as showed in a picture in this thread, was rumoured to have a glass pane in its basement through which you could see the well hidden underground River Fleet on its way down from Hampstead through Farringdon down to Blackfriars.
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Anyone know what street this is please ?
The Old King Lud is the giveaway, Ludgate Circus bottom of Ludgate Hill under the bridge to St Pauls
Ludgate Circus
Did there used to be a roundabout there?
The obelisk is now in Salisbury Square . https://catsmeatshop.blogspot.com/2010/10/lost-obilisk-of-ludgate.html?m=1
Fuckin love London
Fleetbridge is a give away too!
The old King Lud pub, now a Leon as showed in a picture in this thread, was rumoured to have a glass pane in its basement through which you could see the well hidden underground River Fleet on its way down from Hampstead through Farringdon down to Blackfriars.
Good material here: https://londonist.com/2016/09/where-to-see-and-hear-the-hidden-river-fleet
The railway bridge on the right is no longer there, the railway is still there but has been lowered and now passes under the road instead of above.
Ludgate Circus. The railway viaduct on the right was removed in 1990 and the street level was raised to accommodate a new underground railway.
I love posts like this, everybody always has such fun factoids about the things in the photo.
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