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Fore Street is a street in the City of London near the Barbican Centre. It runs from Wood Street to Fore Street Avenue and is joined by Moor Lane on its north side. The street was extensively damaged by Nazi bombing during World War II and, following later development, nothing now remains of its original buildings. ==History== Fore Street was created outside (before) the London city walls, and thereby got its name. In 1654, a postern gate was built at the northern end of Aldermanbury or the larger Cripplegate〔"FORE STREET EC2 (Wood Street) E2" in Smith, Al. (Ed.) (1970) ''Dictionary of City of London Street Names''. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, p. 79. ISBN 0715348809〕 and Fore Street soon became an important shopping street until the middle of the nineteenth century.〔 Before bombing during the Second World War, the street extended from Redcross Street to Finsbury Pavement.〔 Fore Street, on 25 August 1940, was the first place in the City of London to be hit by a German bomb during the Second World War, just before the start of the London Blitz proper. A plaque in the wall of Roman House, on the corner with Wood Street, marks the spot. Up to the 1970s a Post Office telephone exchange stood between Moor Lane and Fore Street Avenue with a Post Office on the corner between Fore Street and Fore Street Avenue.〔Geographia map in Smith, 1970.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fore Street, London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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