each leaf comprising three lancet arches richly ornamented with scrollwork, forged and fire-welded to the highest calibre, with leafy finials to the top rails, two registers of tridents to the middle band and dense scroll-work to the lower panels,

The history of this ironwork is notable – it once formed part of a vast wall along The Euston Road that contained The Somers Town Goods Yard – read the history here. LASSCO News gives the history of the Goods Yard that occupied the site on which The British Library stands today and the fabulous wall that contained it: The Greatest Forgotten Wall in London..