OT Temple Bar

PeterWright wrote on 11/14/2004, 1:00 AM

Next time any videographers are in London, check out the reconstruction of Temple Bar near St Pauls Catherdral.

Temple Bar, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, was a gateway which once went over Fleet Street, and included spikes on which heads and other body parts of executed persons were displayed.

This at the time was the equivalent to a front page headline.

Isn't it good to get reminders of how we became civilised ..... what's that?

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JackW wrote on 11/15/2004, 11:05 AM

In the U.S., the Temple Bar is associated with Mory's Temple Bar, Yale University and the Wiffenpoofs. While no heads are known to have been impaled, many a Yale freshman has awakened after an evening carousing at Mory's and felt that his had been.

Thanks for the heads up, Peter. Will look for the restoration next Spring.

Jack