Alleyways
A Gang of Four walk from Monument to Moorgate 9th Mar 2026 along some of the warren of narrow alleys in the City of London. A sunny day later on.
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 GPS Map of the Walk |
 Monument Tube Station |
 Towards the Monument |
 A Vent disguised as a bollard |
 Should keep it shut |
 The Ship. Previously a coaching inn in Talbot Court |
 The Talbot was destroyed in the Great Fire of London 1666 |
 Eastcheap |
 Fox? |
 Murger Han |
 The Sky Garden (Walkie-Talkie) |
 Green Wall |
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 Gloves stay behind |
 Brabant Court off Philpot Lane Georgian Town House 1710 |
 Window Cleaners |
 Cigars and Whisky Shop |
 Old rare Cask Whiskies |
 Lime Street Passage |
 The Grapes |
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 Leadenhall Market |
 Built 1881 |
 City Dragon |
 Why no customers? |
 Black and Yellow |
 Chandelier in a Cake Shop |
 Lloyds of London |
 Gracechurch Street |
 Varied Architecture |
 "Photon Sphere 1" by Silvina Maestro |
 From the Street |
 Cornhill Devils |
 a detail |
The Church, St Michaels, next door forced
the architect to reduce size of this building and the devils are the
owners
retaliation. (From our walk in Nov 2011) |
 Another detail |
 St Michaels Cornhill, rear |
 A Courtyard |
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 St Peters upon Cornhill |
 Jamaica Wine House (Site of the First Coffee House in London) |
 St Michaels Cornhill Nave, Nicholas Hawksmoor |
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 Phoenix |
 "St Michael "disputing" with Satan". John Birnie Philip. St Michael Cornhill |
 George and Vulture, Bengal Court |
 Change Alley |
 Tailor and Shirt Maker seen from Castle Court |
 "Kale Bespoke" on Castle Court off Change alley |
 Martini Beati, this keystone is probably a piece of guerrilla art. NB George V Penny |
 Further along Change Alley |
 Post Office Court |
 Popes Head Alley |
 A Pope |
 Bank of England |
 James Henry Greathead, Engineer |
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 Very Italian |
 Entrance to Tokenhouse Yard |
 Guarding both ways |
 "Old Dr Butlers Head" pub in Masons Avenue for lunch |
 Steve at lunch |
 Mason's Avenue |
 Guildhall area Exterior |
 Young Queen Victoria under an Anti-Pigeon net |
 Guildhall Art Gallery |
 St Lawrence Jewry |
 Guildhall |
 Cromwell |
 A touch of greenery |
 Woolgate building |
 "Suggs Co" technician repairs one of their gas lamps |
 "Ritual" by Antanas Brazdys |
 Girdlers' Hall |
 Armourers’and Brasiers Hall entrance lamp |
 John Keats |
 An Aggregation 20241031 - S" by Bahk Seon Ghi |
 "Manifold (Major Third) 5-4" by Conrad Shawcross |
 "Keats at the Globe" pub |
 Moorgate Tube Station |
