Comments on: The Romance Of Old Bishopsgate

By: Chris Connor

Chris Connor — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:32:01 +0000

Thank you for the evocative reminder of Bishopsgate past. So much of the history, as well as the sense of history, is lost so quickly under giant edifices of glass and steel. I wonder what John Keats, Paul Pindar, Walter Raleigh and Mary Sidney would make of today’s City of London Corporation efforts. I suspect they would not think too highly.

By: Katherine Utter Schaffer

Katherine Utter Schaffer — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:08:09 +0000

I come to London annually and each time I come, I marvel at finding an old building or group of buildings that are still there – old friends that someone has lovingly preserved. We stay near St. John’s Gate and walk wherever we go in London. I find each time, that I return home with more and more pictures of how the new is taking over the old, trying it’s best to make the aged buildings insignificant. But to me, the old beauty shines more powerfully in its humility and graciousness and pride that they have been able to stand tall for so long. It is the garish new buildings which block the sky and have no beauty. Thank you for keeping the old alive in your stories. I read them every morning.

By: Lew Tassell

Lew Tassell — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:38:18 +0000

Bishopsgate is close to my heart, in the centre of your first picture is Bishopsgate Police Station as it is today, dwarfed by modern buildings. I worked from there for 12 years and lived there for 6 of those, many good memories as well as some bad. The current police station was opened in 1939 and will be decommissioned in the next couple of years when the new police HQ and station will be opened at Salisbury Square, Fleet Street. The development, described by the corporation as a £600M “Justice Quarter”, as well as housing the new City of London Police HQ it will include 18 courtrooms dedicated to economic and cyber crime and bring the area’s existing civil and magistrates’ courts together in a single purpose‑built complex. A new eastern base for the City of London Police has been approved for a location in Aldgate.