A small passage constructed through some retired part of a bastion, or other portion of a work, for the garrison's minor communications with the town, unperceived by the enemy.
·adj Back; being behind; private. II. Postern ·noun Originally, a back door or gate; a private entr...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Murage of the City arising out of Candelwykestrete from the house of Fulk de St. Edmund as far as th...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
See Tower Postern. ...
North out of London Wall at No.129 to Fore Street, opposite St. Alphage Church (P.O. Directory). Fi...
See Second Postern. ...
See Aldermanbury Postern. ...
In Shoemaker Row (Dodsley, 1761). See Postboy Passage. ...
Between Great Tower Hill and Little Tower Hill (Strype, ed. 1720-O.S.25, in 1880). Seems to have be...
Between London Wall and Fore Street, east of Aldermanbury Postern (Rocque, 1746-London Guide, 1758, ...
North of the Tower, by George Yard, between that yard and the Tower Ditch, at the southern terminati...
At the west end of Petty France leading into Moorfields (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 108, and 1755 ed.)...