Onwards west from but first a little detour to see the ‘London Stone’ on Cannon Street:
Then past one of the buildings recording the assorted disasters the area (and the City) has recovered from:
And then down to cross Upper Thames Street, to walk down Cousin Lane to the river. This takes us past a plaque which records the strong links which existed between the City and Germany, particularly the sea going Hanseatic ports, like Hamburg. Early’ish in WW2 the inhabitants of Hamburg came to the conclusion that they hadn’t been bombed heavily because of the historic link. That conclusion was smashed later:
Reaching the river by the Banker pub, we turn right to follow the Thames, past where the City’s rubbish is loaded onto barges to be towed away on the high tides to be dumped on Essex:
Somewhere along the way, we will have walked over one of London’s ‘vanished’ rivers, the Walbrook. It now runs in drains and tunnels under the ground.
On to one of London’s nicest bridges, Southwark:
Being on the river, we can see the south bank. The white building is the rebuilt Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare had his plays performed, close by the former power station, which now houses the Tate Modern art gallery. Spanning the river to the right. Yiu can just about make out the Millenium Footbridge, better remembered perhaps, as the Wobbly Bridge):
Passing under Southwark Bridge, the underpass has some pretty good tiles, showing how the bridge was built and views of the old City. The one I really like is the one with the old St Paul’s, a massive church which dominated the Medieval skyline, right through to the mid-17th century, when it was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666:
To be replaced by Wren’s masterpiece, we are all familiar with today:
A bit further on brings us to what is the oldest dock in London, long since unused. It is tiny and called, Queenhithe:
Along with pretty good mosaic, giving a quite nice history of the area:
To be continued…..
Then past one of the buildings recording the assorted disasters the area (and the City) has recovered from:
And then down to cross Upper Thames Street, to walk down Cousin Lane to the river. This takes us past a plaque which records the strong links which existed between the City and Germany, particularly the sea going Hanseatic ports, like Hamburg. Early’ish in WW2 the inhabitants of Hamburg came to the conclusion that they hadn’t been bombed heavily because of the historic link. That conclusion was smashed later:
Reaching the river by the Banker pub, we turn right to follow the Thames, past where the City’s rubbish is loaded onto barges to be towed away on the high tides to be dumped on Essex:
Somewhere along the way, we will have walked over one of London’s ‘vanished’ rivers, the Walbrook. It now runs in drains and tunnels under the ground.
On to one of London’s nicest bridges, Southwark:
Being on the river, we can see the south bank. The white building is the rebuilt Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare had his plays performed, close by the former power station, which now houses the Tate Modern art gallery. Spanning the river to the right. Yiu can just about make out the Millenium Footbridge, better remembered perhaps, as the Wobbly Bridge):
Passing under Southwark Bridge, the underpass has some pretty good tiles, showing how the bridge was built and views of the old City. The one I really like is the one with the old St Paul’s, a massive church which dominated the Medieval skyline, right through to the mid-17th century, when it was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666:
To be replaced by Wren’s masterpiece, we are all familiar with today:
A bit further on brings us to what is the oldest dock in London, long since unused. It is tiny and called, Queenhithe:
Along with pretty good mosaic, giving a quite nice history of the area:
To be continued…..
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