During the times when wild animals were roaming the centre of London, Lincoln’s Inn Square was one of their grazing grounds. Only small passageways, which could be closed with iron gates, let to and from the square. Some of those remain, like Little Turnstile and Gate Street. William Blake most famously commemorated the Tyger of those days in one of his poems. Charles Darwin even brought some Galapagos iguanas to live there. Today, though, the lizards, tigers and sheep have long gone, replaced by lawyers and researchers filling the surrounding buildings. What remains is a feeding basket for the giraffe, ever reminding us of the wild times we had in London’s jungle.
