2-365-795 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Temple Bar archway, at the Stand end of Fleet Street, London, 1877 (1951). The Temple Bar stood at the junction of Fleet Street and The Strand and marked the western boundary of the City of London. The gate was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren in the 1670s. It was moved in 1878 in the interest of road widening in and re-erected two years later as the gate to Theobalds Park, the home of the brewer Henry Meux in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. In 2004 it was brought back to London as part of the Paternoster Square redevelopment. A print from 100 Years in Pictures, A panorama of History in the Making, text by DC Somervell, Odhams press Limited, London, 1951.