Newgate Prison (Old Bailey) used to stand on this spot. Now we find the Central Criminal Court here. ". . . Sydney Carton takes Charles Darnay 'down Ludgate Hill to Fleet Street . . . up a covered way into a tavern' - supposedly this - after the latter is acquitted of high treason at the Old Bailey." (Literary London, 81)
An dieser Stelle stand früher das Newgate-Gefängnis. Heute steht hier der Zentrale Strafgerichtshof.
After her violin lesson on Thursday, Flora and I walked to places that are being mentioned in A Tale of Two Cities. Flora finished the book a short while ago.
Nach ihrer Geigenstunde am Donnerstag, haben Flora und ich Orte gesucht, die in dem Roman Eine Geschichte aus zwei Städten vorkommen. Flora hat das Buch neulich zu Ende gelesen.
We walked down Ludgate Hill to Fleet Street.
Wir sind Ludgate Hill hinunter bis zur Fleet Street gegangen.
We passed the Stationers' Hall.
Wir sind bei Buchhändlergilde vorbeigegangen.
Close by is this church.
Ganz in der Nähe ist diese Kirche St. Martin.
There plaques for all the different newspapers in the pavement. Fleet Street was home to publishing houses.
Man kann auf Fleet Street sehen, wo früher die großen Verlagshäuser waren, die vor allen Dingen Zeiten gedruckt haben.
We took a detour to visit Hodge. He is Samuel Johnson's cat. We visited his house in 2019 here and here.
Wir haben einen kleinen Abstecher zu Samuel Johnsons Katze gemacht. Zuletzt waren wir 2019 in seinem Haus hier und hier.
Samuel Johnson's house
Haus von Samuel Johnson
We noticed that St. Dunstan was open.
Dann haben wir gesehen, daß die Kirche St. Dunstan geöffnet war.
Lord Baltimore, the founder of Maryland, is buried here.
Lord Baltimore, der Gründer von Maryland, liegt hier begraben.
Fleet Street Number 1: Site of Tellson's Bank from A Tale of Two Cities.
Hier stand früher Tellsons Bank, die in dem Buch von Dickens vorkommt.
Then we took the tube to Soho. We stopped at Lovisa's and had Flora's ears re-pierced. Her holes had grown shut and Lovisa has a hand-pressurized device to do the piercing, which is much better than the guns some places use. After the piercing, we stopped at St. Patrick's to say a short prayer.
Danach haben wir die U-Bahn nach Soho genommen. Dort haben wir Floras Ohrlöcher neu stechen lassen. Ihre alten Löcher waren zugewachsen und bei Lovisa benutzen sie eine sanftere Methode, um Löcher zu machen. Nach den neuen Ohrringen waren wir kurz bei St. Patricks zum Beten.
The Pillars of Hercules, a pub, Dickens mentions in his book.
Die Säulen des Herkules, eine Kneipe, die Dickens erwähnt.
House of St. Barnabas-in-Soho, which is Dr. Manette's house.
Dieses Haus ist das Haus von Dr. Manette in Dickens Buch.
And at the end, we briefly stopped at Foyles, where I bought a living book about cells, called The Cell (paid link). We will use it for biology in grade 10.
Und ganz am Ende haben wir noch kurz bei Foyles angehalten, wo ich ein Buch über Zellen gekauft habe, was wir nächstes Schuljahr benutzen wollen.
Exciting to see Tellson's Bank and Manette's House . . and to have a pub mentioned in the book still be around? I wish our city government was as respectful of history and literary landmarks. Our local organizations fight very hard to keep our historic buildings, and many don't last. We lost a beautiful one just before Covid - the St. Denis building which housed local therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists. You can read about it at this link. I've actually shed tears over this building being lost, probably because of Jeremiah Moss's article. He wrote about having to vacate it along with his colleagues. There's a link to the article in EV Grieve's blog post. I've also felt sad about it as my and my friend's acupuncturist was located there, and my friend's daughter used to bake cookies and do fundraisers in their office for different charities. They were always so obliging. It was part of the community. I still feel sad when walking by it. Such a shame. We're having another fight now over a beloved community garden. City government (the current mayor's administration) has pitted affordable housing against garden space. The people fighting for the garden have pointed out other empty buildings and plots nearby that could accommodate the housing instead, but it seems to be a losing battle. We have lots of housing in NYC, just not affordable - all luxury. Ah well! I didn't mean to go on about these conflicts! I could delete . . but will just leave it. Hmm. I almost forgot what I really wanted to say about your post: I wonder if Hodge the cat at Southwark is named after Samuel Johnson's cat named Hodge or is Hodge a popular name in the UK for a cat? (P.S. St. Patrick's is such a pretty church.)
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