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Show TEMPLE BAR TO BE RESTORED One of the Original Gates of London to Be Permanently Erected in Epping Forest. London. Londoners are keenly In teresled in the proposed restoration tc the city of Temple Bar, one of original gates of London, made possible by the recent death of Lady Meux. on whose estate it has stood since 1S7S. In that year it was taken down from its position in Fleet street, as it impeded im-peded the increasing traffic, and the late Sir Henry Meux bought it, had all the stones carefully marked and erected erect-ed again at the entrance of his estate. Theobald's park at Chestnut, a little way out of London, where It has stood I J r "1 Old Temple Bar. ever since. It is suggested now to put it up in Epping forest, one of the nearest open spaces to London, and the property of the city, but some antiquarians an-tiquarians are of the opinion that it should be brought nearer the heart of things than that, for old associations' sake. What a "sermon in stones" the old gate could give if it could speak! Here, in the old days, the watchman looked out on to pleasant fields and country roads, while passengers passed in under un-der the ancient doorway after their long and sometimes adventurous journeys jour-neys from Brighton or Portsmouth. Here, from time to time, breathless horsemen dashed up with tales of plunder by highwaymen on the wilds of the Hampstead Heath. During the . great fire at London Temple Bar was nearly destroyed, but it was restored In 1S70 by Sir Christopher Wren. |