St Antholin's Spire.

In the leafy suburbs of Upper Sydenham is an unusual garden ornament, that consists of the spire of the Wren church of St Antholin, original dedication to St Anthony but from very early years was called St Antholin's. St Anotholin's Church was rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren in 1682 and bore a lofty spire and stood on the corner of Budge Row near Sise Lane, Mansion House in the centre of the City until 1875 when it was demolished to make way for a new road, Queen Victoria Street. The spire was preserved and sold for five pounds, transported by horse and cart all the way to Sydenham, where it was re-erected in the gardens of Round Hill House. Round Hill House has long gone although the spire still remains where it has for about 140 years. Now the garden has made way to a 1970's Council group of houses where unfortunately no sign has been placed to tell this story and of course the local residents remain unaware of their historic curiosity.

The Black Bull.

This life size Black Bull has moved around quite a lot, since first being modelled by Obadiah Pulham at Woodbridge, Suffolk in the early 19th century. It was transported to London from the North Sea and along the River Thames, to where it stood for nearly a century as the sign, outside the ‘Black Bull Inn’ on the corner of Leather lane and Holborn, until the inn was demolished in 1904. The Black Bull was saved from destruction by Sir William Bull, M. P for Hammersmith. It was taken for its next journey to King Street Hammersmith, where it stood guard above the entrance to the offices of Messrs. Bull & Bull, a firm of solicitors, until that building too was demolished. It was then taken for another journey a few hundred yards along King Street to adorn the front of the Ravenscourt Arms, where it has stood ever since, without causing too much attention.

Temple Bar.

Temple Bar was one of the gates through which people and traffic had to pass. It originally stood where Fleet Street now meets the Strand, the bar was first mentioned in 1293. It stood outside of the Temple law chambers and was always associated with the "Bar". It is the only surviving gateway to the City it was removed and re-erected in Theabalds park in Hertfordshire, where it stood neglected for many years. The Temple Bar was finally returned to the City of London. funded by the corporation of London to the tune of over £3.0m. The reconstruction of Temple Bar on an empty site next to St Paul's Cathedral, was completed in November 2004. There are four statues Charles I, Charles II, James I and Anne of Denmark they were carved by John Bushnell and have now been restored in the main alcoves of Temple Bar, and now the only traffic that passes through the gateway is on foot.