Gherkin

More of the Gherkin Building

author: Al : London, UK
Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

The Gherkin

author: Hasslehoff : London, UK
Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

Gherkin Sneaks Up on You

author: elaine : London, UK

what you might not realise about london is that the City is different from london as a whole - it's the bit that was inside the roman wall, well, still is, though the wall is a bit crumbled away now, being as it is 2000 years old. in 1666 the 'great fire of london' burned down pretty much everything except st paul's. this gave london the opportunity to impose a grid plan instead of the tiny wriggly streets that had grown up since the middle ages. but no, people didn't want it, they wanted their own old plots back, and to...

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