Inside London’s 350 year old Temple Bar

Sitting next to St Paul’s Cathedral is an old gatehouse that looks like its been there for centuries as modern buildings were added around it. But in fact, this is Temple Bar, and it used to be in an entirely different location.Temple Bar owes its origins to a time when roads were paid for by tolls instead of taxes, and one of the many toll gates that surrounded the City was based on Fleet Street. There had been a toll gate of some description since at least the 13th century, if not earlie