Bishop Gate

A couple of photos taken recently showing the progress in demolishing the Royal Mail Sorting Office

Personally, I thought Bishop Street was a carbuncle, and it's not going to be a shopping complex/supermarket. It's going to be student flats with a modest retail unit on ground floor. Previous attempts to turn the building into something failed.

"Not worth digging for remains of old city wall" - report

Thanks for that MR. I have to say that one area that could do with more information is the stretch closest to the Ring Road. I think I know where the wall ran almost until you get to the north wall (which is probably under the Road). But it's not clear from any map I've seen where that wall crossed the north edge of the Post office complex and exactly what angle. The tower would have been under the roadway into the north car park, partly in Tower street if the maps line up with google. If either that road or the one that runs between the ring road and the Post office were dug up, it might be worth looking for the line of the wall.

The problem is when the GPO building was constructed, they levelled the ground by up to 4metres, and this means its unlikely anything will have survived.

Hi all 'And there it is, or was, not anymore. & the view from the opposite side, whilst I was aboard the No57.

Comparison views from Tower Street - 23 Dec 2015 and 25 March 2016

It's "on track"

Update on Philip's photo

This development, and the one in Hales Street (visible under construction in the Trinity Street and Butcher Row threads), will certainly change the city skyline.

Another view of the construction work, taken from the bridge over the ring road

The city's skyline is definitely taking a major change with this development - photographed this morning Previous views from 19 Aug 2013 and 18 Apr 2017

Bishopgate from the bottom of Burges - Saturday 7th April

A look at the Bishop Gate development today (right) and comparison with the Royal Mail building during its demolition, 23 Dec 2015