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3 unusual facts about Moorgate


Moorgate

Keats was born in 1795 in the Swan and Hoop Inn at 199 Moorgate, where his father was an ostler.

Although the City gates had ceased to have any modern function apart from decoration, it was replaced along with Ludgate, Newgate, and Temple Bar with a stone gate in 1672.

The side street is the location of the Chartered Accountants' Hall, home of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.


Arthur Beresford Pite

Pite continued working on his commissions including the Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, Christ Church and one other church in Brixton, Kampala Cathedral, Uganda, a hospital in Jerusalem, the Chartered Accounts Hall in Moorgate (with Belcher), the West Library in Islington and buildings in Marylebone to name but a few.

Books on British railway accidents

The list below does not include books on individual accidents; for these, see Tay Bridge, Quintinshill, Harrow and Moorgate.

British Rail Class 23

The locomotives were put to work on King's Cross outer suburban duties such as the Cambridge Buffet Express as well as services from Kings Cross to Moorgate sub-surface platforms via the 'widened lines' (more recently, part of Thameslink).

Dean Andrews

Born in 1963 in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire, Andrews went to Sitwell Junior School on Grange Road and Oakwood Comprehensive School on Moorgate Road.

EC postcode area

The postcode district includes Moorgate, Finsbury Circus and Liverpool Street and roughly covers the northeastern corner of the City of London from St Paul's Cathedral.

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

The ICAEW has two offices in the UK; the main one is in Moorgate, London and the other in Central Milton Keynes, in the newly built Hub:MK complex.

John Denison-Pender, 2nd Baron Pender

Denison-Pender ran C&W services during the war years and it was some feat that it remained undisrupted during that time, despite numerous setbacks including the Electra House HQ (London), Brentwood wireless station, the Moorgate-Porthcurno landlines and Porthcurno Telegraph Museum (Cornwall) all receiving direct hits in 1940 and up to 1945.

Letchworth Garden City railway station

There is also a Monday to Friday hourly service via Hertford North to London Moorgate, which in the evenings runs to London King's Cross instead of Moorgate.

T. P. Figgis

When the C&SLR was extended, he later designed a station at Clapham North and the station and C&SLR's offices at Moorgate.


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