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Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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275 points zeristor | 4 comments | 11 Nov 25 22:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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PaulRobinson ◴[11 Nov 25 22:56 UTC] No.45894039[source]▶
The Museum of London site (now closed as they prepare to move to their new site, coincidentally near the AWS HQ), and there was a window you could look down on part of the wall, which you can also see from the other side of the road near Barbican. I won't give directions, as that seems futile anywhere near Barbican, but I had only just thought about how weird it is that there is wall at Tower Hill, and wall at Barbican - they can't be the same run of wall as it was built, can they? That'd be immense...
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1. tialaramex ◴[12 Nov 25 00:07 UTC] No.45894658[source]▶
The new Museum's site also has a very cool view through a window, but it's a view of the passing trains [underground], because historically that building (one of London's markets) had a freight service and of course there's no room to move a railway line under London so even though it hadn't needed a freight service for decades the passenger service over the same rails still exists and you will be able to wave to surprised (if they haven't taken that route before) passengers from inside the museum.

A friend lucked into (there's literally a lottery for popular sites) tickets for the new site in Open House London 2024 and the window existed but wasn't really set up for tourists yet of course.

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2. tobylane ◴[12 Nov 25 11:18 UTC] No.45898796[source]▶
I went on that Open House tour, and they said the window view is a secret until opening day. They've told contractors not to take personal photos.

For context, this line is Thameslink, just south of Farringdon, on the east (heading south) side.

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3. tialaramex ◴[12 Nov 25 11:57 UTC] No.45899078[source]▶
I'm terrible at keeping secrets so, it was probably a bad idea to let me go on the tour, or, perhaps we should try to have fewer secrets so that I'd remember ?
4. RobotToaster ◴[12 Nov 25 14:54 UTC] No.45900980[source]▶
Seems like a missed opportunity to have a tube station inside the museum.