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The Old Gate
In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. This was partly for_________ (51) reasons but another factor was the need to keep out anyone regarded as undesirable, like people with contagious_________ (52). The Old City of London gates were all_________ (53) by the end of the 18th century. The last of London’s gates was removed a century ago, _________ (54) by a stoke of luck, it was never destroyed.
This gate is, in _________ (55) fact, not called a gate at all; its name is Temple Bar, and it marked the_________ (56) between the Old City of London and Westminster. In 1878 the Council of London took the Bar_________ (57), numbered the stones and put the gate in storage_________ (58)its design was unfashionable, and it was expensive to_________ (59) and it was blocking the traffic.
The Temple Bar Trust was set up in the 1970s with the _________ (60) of returning the gate home. The aim of the trust is the_________ (61) of the nation’s architectural heritage.
Transporting the gate will_________ (62) physically pulling it down, stone by stone, removing and rebuilding it near St. Paul’s Cathedral. Most of the facade of the gate will probably be_________ (63), though there is a good _________ (64) that the basic structure will be sound. The hardest_________ (65) of all, however, will be to recreate the statues of the monarchs that once stood on top of the gate.

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