On 4 Feb, 15:23, Paul Terry wrote:
The medieval part of Cripplegate Within was lost in the Great Fire of
London
I've seen photographs of it, so unless they had photography in
medieval times, I think you're wrong there.

and much of the rest went in the great Cripplegate fire of 1897
(St Giles survived, but was badly damaged). It had already been
identified by the City as an area of extreme slum conditions by 1851,
and was very run down before the Luftwaffe cleared it.
So? That doesn't mean they can't build a facsimile of it in its better
days. There's no legal obligation for then to "build it like it was
when it became a really **** place".

I don't think it would ever have been worth trying to restore anything other than St
Giles - there was certainly no original design that could have been
brought back.
They can at least try. There are, after all, photographs of how it
was. Warsaw did, and it looks lovely as a result.