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This was the view from Bishop's Gate one evening in April 2000.
The panorama opens looking along Derry's city walls. The red brick building on the right was, for its first hundred years the home of First Derry primary school. It is now the venue of the Verbal Arts Centre. In the distance is the Creggan housing estate sprawling up the hillside.
As you start to rotate to the right the view is dominated by the British Army observation post with its video cameras and transmission towers. It has recently been dismantled.
Passing the military installations we reach Bishop Street. On the left is the Freemason's Hall and on the right Derry Courthouse. Looking straight down Bishop Street past the junction with London Street (where we find Bookworm Bookshop and Cafe Artisan), we can see The Diamond and in the distance behind it the clock tower of the Guildhall.
Continuing past the Court House we glimpse the spire of St Columb's Cathedral and beside it on the walls is Church Bastion - one of the wider terraced areas within the walls.
Below the Church Bastion is the Fountain Housing Estate, where many parishioners of the Cathedral live. On the edge of the Fountain half way along Bishop Street is a tower - the last remnant of the old Derry Gaol. Amongst its more famous prisoners were Wolfe Tone and Eamon DeValera.
Passing the Gaol Tower we are back on Bishop Street - or more precisely Bishop Street Without, that is "the part of Bishop Street outside the walled city". On the right of Bishop Street is Alexander House - a sheltered housing scheme for older people, managed by North & West Voluntary Housing Group and then we are back to the initial view.