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Moorgate is also the birthplace of John Keats, one of the principal poets in the English Romantic movement. Keats was born in 1795 in the Swan and Hoop Inn at 199 Moorgate, where his father was an ostler .
Moorgate is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station on Moorgate in the City of London.Main line railway services for Hertford, Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage are operated by Great Northern, while the London Underground station is served by the Circle, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan and Northern lines.
A statue of the English Romantic poet John Keats is located in Moorfields, Moorgate in the City of London. It was sculpted by Martin Jennings and depicts a larger than life-size copy of a life mask of Keats taken aged 21. Keats was the son of an ostler at the nearby inn, The Swan and Hoop. [1]
Statue of John Keats, Moorgate (2024) by Martin Jennings Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Statue of John Keats .
The Moorgate tube crash occurred on 28 February 1975 at 8:46 am on the London Underground's Northern City Line; 43 people died and 74 were injured after a train failed to stop at the line's southern terminus, Moorgate station, and crashed into its end wall. It is considered the worst peacetime accident on the London Underground.
The London Underground network carries more than a billion passengers a year. [1] It has one fatal accident for every 300 million journeys. [2] Five accidents causing passenger deaths have occurred due to train operation in nearly 80 years since the London Passenger Transport Board was formed, the last being at Moorgate in 1975; other fatalities have been due to wartime and terrorist bombings ...
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English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... Moorgate was built by upgrading a postern built in 1415, and enlarged in 1472 and 1511. ... Wikipedia® is a registered ...