A LONDON CURIOSITY
What part of London isn’t London?” The answer is Ely Place, Holborn, which technically speaking, counts as a detacucd bit of Cambridgeshire. Here, in ancient days, stood the town palace of the Bishops of Ely, till the property was confiscated by Sir Christoplic.Hatton, Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth it is from him that Hatton Garden get-’ its name.
./PFe site, however, continued to eniov its Independence of London, and even today jealously maintains its liberties by the provision of an old-time watchman in a lodge at its gates, the peace of the place being technically in his hands ami not in those of the Metropolitan Police, who. m case of emergency, would onlv enter ‘ by courtesy."
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12252, 25 September 1925, Page 9
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118A LONDON CURIOSITY New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12252, 25 September 1925, Page 9
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