THE NIGHT WATCH.
LINK WITH THE PAST. It has been left to Americans visiting London to “discover” a link with the dim past in Ely Place, a little cul-de-sac in the city off the north side of Holborn Circus. There, between 10 p.m. aud 5 a.m., may be heard a night watchman, wearing a long coat with large, shiny 1 buttons, calling the hours, Ely Place stands on the site of the jialace of the Bishops of Ely, where John of Gaunt, father of Henry IV!, died in 1399. In “Richard lll.’’ Shakespeare refers to the strawberries in “my lord of Ely’s” garden in Holborn. The strawberry garden is now covered' by blocks of office buildings. The tenants do not pay a police rate, for the reason that Ely Place is still part of Cambridge, into which London police may not go. Police duties arc undertaken by the day watchman and the night watchman. Even the public house in Ely Place closes at the Cambridge hours —ten on week-days and nine on Sundays.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 October 1924, Page 5
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