[AnAmericanMother]

The site of Temple Bar was a traffic nightmare because it stood at the meeting of Fleet Street and The Strand . . . two major London thoroughfares . . .

The photo was taken sometime in late Victorian times, and Temple Bar was ancient even then - it predated the Great Fire although largely reconstructed in 1672.

People still complain about the pillar that they put up in place of it.

And here is the location of the gate at present:

[Jabba the Nutt]

Saved by a brewer, beer being the foundation of civilization.