Showing posts with label city. Show all posts
Showing posts with label city. Show all posts

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Inner Temple and Middle Temple

It's amazing how many great buildings, nice squares and huge expanses of gardens and land are right here in the centre of London, but hidden away from the general public. These two Inns of Court are like a secret city. You enter a small doorway of Fleet Street, and come across a very large and very valuable piece of real estate. The Inns of Court are professional bodies, set up to train and govern the barristers and judges who work in the nearby courts of law, such as the Royal Courts of Justice. Inner temple was originally an actual temple, set up in the 12th century by the Knights Templar. The first legal people to be housed here came in the 14th century.

























Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Postman's Park

Postman's Park is a tiny park in the City of London, not far from St. Barts hospital. It is most known for it's "Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice" to those who have died in an attempt to save others.


The Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice itself is a covered wall, with tiles on it detailing the heroic deeds of those who remembered here.



A lot of stirring stories of heroism.