Hound Dog
Houndsditch, EC3, The Way We See It.
“An ancient street in the middle of the City with two very modern additions this week. Houndsditch is so called as it was once a ditch on one side of the London Wall, it grew so full of waste (let’s be nice about it) and dead dogs that it got it’s name.
It’s pretty much like any other City side street, until you reach the Liverpool Street end, where rises the rather ugly Heron Tower. What it lacks in aesthetics, it does make up for in size, being the tallest building in the City and the second in the UK.
At the other end is another new development, St Botolophs, which is nowhere near as tall and also, sadly, rather faceless.
Apparently as you near Bishopsgate there are gaps between the buildings. These are said to be the sites of plague pits.”
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