From 17 July, visitors to London Mithraeum Bloomberg Space will have a thrillingly tactile encounter with the Walbrook’s ...

They turned a standard ribbon-cutting ceremony at Walbrook Senior High School yesterday into a celebration that was part homecoming and part family reunion. A small marching band strutted up and do… ...

The Walbrook, now a City street, continues over Cannon Street as Dowgate Hill, named for the watergate where it fed into the Thames ('dow', as in 'dowsing', is an old word for water).

London’s Mithraeum has all these classic features. The temple was discovered in 1954 during excavations by the Museum of London ahead of redevelopment in the Walbrook area of the City.

The London Mithraeum, a temple made by the cult of Mithras that dates back to Roman times, was discovered on the site in the 1950s, but its remains were moved to make way for new construction.