Aldgate

Phil on 1 Feb 2003   Link to this

The most eastern of London's gates and the road of the same name lead into the county of Essex.

Philip Somervail on 3 Feb 2003   Link to this

Here's a link with descriptions of various buildings in the City of London in 1731, including five of the eight gates (now all long-since demolished, sadly) - being Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Aldersgate, Newgate and Ludgate: http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Lond1731/00000012...
Maybe illustrations of them can be found on the web as well? (The Encyclopaedia of London [1983] has pictures of them, however.)

Philip Somervail on 4 Feb 2003   Link to this

...and here's Aldgate's location (and many thanks to Susanna for finding this 1746 map of London online): http://www.motco.com/Map/81002/SeriesSearchPlat...

language hat on 4 Feb 2003   Link to this

Interesting that Jewry St. was then Poor Jewry Lane,
and that there was a Goodman's Yard but no Portsoken St. off the Minories. Does anybody know of a comprehensive book on the history of London streets comparable to Hillairet's Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris? (Which I highly recommend:
http://www.addall.com/Browse/Detail/0828895325.... )

Martin K. Foys on 8 Feb 2003   Link to this

Aldgate and Chaucer
Aldgate was also the home of Geoffrey Chaucer, who had an apartment in the southern section of it, and likely did much of his writing there before retiring to Greenwich.

Jewry Street today runs along the line of the demolished medieval wall; it also runs straight into Crutched Friars Street, which would have been quite a strange juxtaposition medieval times.

Terry F on 21 Apr 2007   Link to this

View of Aldgate incorporating flat topped towers and a window over the central arch. 1800? © City of London

http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app?...