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Random London Snaps, September 2022

11/19/2022

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One afternoon we decided to ride around on the hop-on-hop-off bus and enjoy the changing skies from full sun to heavy clouds. Note the crowded streets as London filled up with those who came to pay their respects and experience the pageantry. The pictures are in no particular order, and please remember to click on them for full versions. Below, left, the Wellington Monument in Hyde Park, aka Statue of Achilles by sculptor Richard Westmacott cast from melted down cannons used in battle; right, Grand Trunk Railway Building in Cockspur Street. Please remember to click on the photos for full size versions. 
    Above, left, Theatre Royal Haymarket; right, The South Bank Lion made of Coade Stone, on the Westminster Bridge.
       Below, left, Somerset House; right, The Wellington, a pub on the Strand.
Above, the Temple Bar Dragon in Fleet Street, marking the site of the old gates of the City of London, sculpted by Charles Bell Birch, 1880; right, almost past Prince Henry's Room, 17 Fleet Street, remnant of a Tudor Building that survived the Great Fire.
   Below, left, looking east on Fleet Street; right, passing St. Paul's Cathedral.
    Above, left, St. Paul's Cathedral facade; right, the Royal Exchange, from which a new monarch must be proclaimed.
     Below, left, the Monument to the Great Fire of 1666; right, crossing the Thames looking toward Tower Bridge.
   Above, left, crossing Tower Bridge; right, View from the bridge with the "Walkie Talkie" at the left, aka 20 Fenchurch Street, and the Tower of London on the river bank at the right.
    Below, left, The Tower of London from the Tower Bridge; right, a view of the gardens now being cultivated in the former moat.

    Above, left, the river looking across the London Eye; right, a closer view.
    Below. left Big Ben atop The Elizabeth Tower; right, Boadicea and Her Daughters​, a sculpture on the Victoria Embankment, showing the Celtic Warrior Queen who led an  uprising against Roman rule in the first century AD.
Above, left, the Albert, a fine pub which has kept its Victorian charm, in Victoria Street; right, back to the Royal Exchange for a closer view of the equestrian statue of the first Duke of Wellington by Sir Francis Chantrey.
​     Below, left, sic transit Gloria. Right, I, II, or  III?
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