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I've done some arches already: the railway kind, Admiralty Arch, and the quondam Euston Arch which there are plans to rebuild, but there are still some that I haven't yet touched on.

Besides, that is, the iconic Marble Arch, standing more or less on the site of the Tyburn Tree (not its original location, I note, taking down arches and putting them up somewhere else a bit of a theme, perchance);

there is the Wellington Arch at the other end of Park Lane, also moved, for reasons to do with traffic flow, and denuded of what was apparently a hideous giant crowning statue of the Iron Duke. For quite some time it served as London's smallest police station (awwwwww), which had a resident cat, called Snooks (even more awwwwwwwwww).

I see that I recorded that there are rather splendid views.

Archway, however, is actually a road bridge.

(Yes, I know the song below is not about these sorts of arches.)

Current Music: Flanagan & Allen Underneath the Arches

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Though the Arch Climbing Wall is, sadly, no longer in an arch.

It used to inhabit two of the brick arches under the railway at London Bridge, but was forced out by the station expansion, and now lives in a former biscuit factory.