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Moorgate Liverpool Street is a Central London area which includes the center of the city and its business center. It takes the name of a London Wall postern. The fortification derives its name from the surrounding area of open spaces which was known as the Moorfields. It was among the last strips of open land in London back in the day. The eponymous door became a gate in the 15th century. In the 18th century, the gate was taken down but its name lived on as a major London street. The street dates from 1846. It connects this EC2 area to Hackney and Islington.
St Mary Moorfields is the only Catholic church in London. The present-day construction dates from 1903. It sits on the site of a 17th-century chapel. Moorfields Eye Hospital was originally established in 1805. It is Europe’s largest and oldest medical facility for eye-related conditions and research. Moorgate tube station is remembered as the site of a terrible tube crash that took place in 1975. A terminating train failed to stop and hit a brick wall. Forty-three people lost their lives. Nowadays, trains have an automatic system that stops them at dead-ends. The system is called Moorgate control.
Close to the station, one may find one of the Moorgate Liverpool Street landmarks. One of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, John Keats, was born in Moorgate in 1795 at the Swan and Hoop Inn. The establishment is now a pub called The John Keats at the Globe. Moor House is another local landmark. It is an office building constructed in 2004. At that time, it was the building with the deepest foundations in London. It is built on the site of a modernist office block from the 1960s. The Guildhall in Moorgate Liverpool Street houses the City of London Corporation and government since the Middle Ages.
