Fleet Street with Temple Bar (Crystal Palace in distance) 1871 - stock illustration

Fleet Street in the City of London, from Mitre Court to Temple Bar, with The Temple and River Thames. The narrow and traffic-limiting Temple Bar (one of the historic entrances to the City of London) was removed from this position in 1878 and re-erected at Theobalds Park in Hertfordshire where it remained until 2003: it is now sited at the entrance to Paternoster Square. Engraving from "Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood", price one shilling; published by William Collins, Sons & Company, London, in 1871. In the far distance, the Crystal Palace can be seen on Sydenham Hill whence it was removed from Hyde Park following the Great Exhibition of 1851.