Comments on: Nights In Old London

By: belle

belle — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:30:40 +0000

One of my favourite posts, lovely. One of my favourite haunts at dusk/night was St James Park, watching and listening to the water fowl readying themselves for the night, a very beautiful place I used to cycle to on bored Sunday evenings as a teenager.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 22:48:42 +0000

Thank you for another wonderful post and magnificently evocative pictures.

By: touchstone

touchstone — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 14:32:22 +0000

“Brilliant. I so miss London. Stop it.”

I miss London too. And I live here.

By: touchstone

touchstone — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 14:29:41 +0000

The whole of London is being raped by developers. The fascinating, beautiful, characterful cityscape that I have adored all of my life is being wrecked and replaced by shopping malls, apartment complexes, and office units. This is happening at such a scale and pace that it amounts to an all-out assault on he identity and history of our capital city. There is hardly anything left. London is being destroyed before our eyes.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 11:00:36 +0000

I have walked in many cities at night – Moscow, Vienna, Paris, Madrid and Berlin to name a few, but none can match the magical nights in London. They all have their great buildings and monuments but none has the same magic as London by night. As an inveterate night time walker I love to wander the highways and byways of the night time streets of wherever I am. There is poetry and mystery abounding in London’s streets, especially in winter when the dark filigree branches of the great Plane trees hang like black lace above the parks and squares of Bloomsbury and Holborn; when the great buildings are lit up and bathed in warm light and mysterious shadows. There are quiet lanes and alleys hidden amongst the thronging thoroughfares of the West End, there are silent Churchyards and quiet corners in the City of London itself. But the nights in London take on an unrivalled majestic beauty when it rains. To walk along the glittering Strand from Trafalgar Square, around the Aldwych and along Fleet Street to St. Paul’s in the rain is one of life’s greatest pleasures. A stroll along the Embankment from Lambeth Bridge to Blackfriars beneath an umbrella is to be a Londoner for me. No other city can match London at night.

By: Melissa C.

Melissa C. — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 20:33:32 +0000

You captured exactly how I feel about walking around in London at night. The mysterious, soft, beautiful words couldn’t have described my feelings better. I think this my favorite post of yours so far. 🙂

By: Joan

Joan — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 17:27:33 +0000

I can imagine these scenes populated by characters from the pens of Stella Gibbons, Sarah Waters, Anthony Quinn and, especially, Kate Atkinson’s heroine from Life After Life. Atmospheres like these cry out for stories I can read curled up beside the fire in late October and November.

By: Susan lendroth

Susan lendroth — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:14:36 +0000

If only there were a door to open into Londons past… But at least we have your blog and those images and the magic of imagination.

By: Barbara H

Barbara H — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 14:00:34 +0000

wonderful, wonderful pictures. what struck me is the lack of light pollution. London is never that dark now, nor so empty. some amazing skies captured too. more like the
London of my youth.

By: Milo bell

Milo bell — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:49:10 +0000

Brilliant. I so miss London. Stop it.