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Road closure Remnant Street and Lincoln’s Inn Fields between Remnant Street and Sardinia Street 15-16 June 2013
A big crane is coming in to dismantle, at last the site offices for the Africa House project on Gate Street. The West side of the Fields will be closed over the weekend 15-16 June with no access from Remnant … Continue reading
Terrace Restaurant to become ‘Lincoln’s Bar and Kitchen’ operated by Benugo in association with Soane Museum
The long saga of The Terrace restaurant has moved on another iteration with news that it is to become Lincoln’s Bar and Kitchen. Finchannel.com says: ‘The 88-cover restaurant, in which Benugo will invest £500,000 in the redesign and the refurbishment … Continue reading
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Road closures for Margaret Thatchers funeral
Margaret Thatchers funeral tomorrow will see closure of Fleet Street and the Strand from at least 0730 to as late as 1500. The Holborn traffic circulation relies on these two arteries so there will be much congestion in the roads … Continue reading
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Tweed invasion
The Fields were invaded by a hundred or so tweed-wearers on bicycles today from the London Tweed Run. It was all quite surreal with penny-farthings a plenty.
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Hedges and masterplan
The new hedge and fence on three corners of the park is part of a plan to protect the grass from people walking diagonally across the Fields. It was kind of obvious that when the railings were removed that people … Continue reading
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Sir Robert Hunter on the need to open up Lincoln’s Inn Fields to the public – 1894
Sir Robert Hunter was one of the co-founders of The National Trust. He was a lawyer with an office at 6 Lincoln’s Inn Fields (a building more famous recently for being “The Apprentice House 2013″ in this year’s season of … Continue reading
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Former Terrace Restaurant in Lincoln’s Inn Fields – invitation to tender
There is an intriguing pre-fabricated building in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the former Terrace Restaurant. It has a chequered history – the act of Parliament governning the Fields bans buildings that aren’t in connection with the ‘convenient use and maintenance’ of … Continue reading
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Whetstone Park resurfaced
This small but important road at the rear of Lincoln’s Inn Fields had fallen in to very poor repair. It was resurfaced just before Xmas 2012. Whetstone Park crops up in Pepys diaries (16 November 1668) . He was chasing … Continue reading
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Minutes of the FLIF meeting held on Thursday 25th October 2012
Present: Robert McCracken (Chair) Sue Palmer Peter Dodge William Perrin Fran Perrin Julian Robinson Amanda Rigby Walter Hand Apologies: Noreen Kent Mary Kerr Outstanding Items from previous meeting Filming William had spoken with the film companies directly regarding their parking … Continue reading
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Lincoln’s Inn Fields and the localities adjacent – their historical and topographical associations Charles William Heckethorn
A neighbour recently passed me a digital copy of the above book from 1896, around the time that the Fields became a public park. It’s a wonderful period piece and well worth an idle browse with a cup of coffee. … Continue reading
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