Comments on: Looking Down On Old London

By: Sheila O'Connell

Sheila O'Connell — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:14:02 +0000

Interesting to see the transition from horse-drawn to motor vehicles. Very clear in the photograph of St Clement Danes, but also Admiralty Arch.

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 20:10:29 +0000

Wonderful images, and as I remember the iconic buildings from my childhood, and not dwarfed my skyscrapers.
However, I love much of the modern architecture now in London, so just grateful I both remember the past, but love the present too.

By: Christine Smith

Christine Smith — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:55:21 +0000

Thank you for showing these photos. I have seen film footage of London in WW2 in the past, and it is a jolt to see London with all the church steeples being the stand-out landmarks. I am also just returned from Paris, and having done the trip up the Eiffel Tower, and seeing all that city’s treasures so clearly on show it does make one wonder about ‘progress’. But ideas of beauty change. Maybe in another century the Shard and the glass towers of the City will be more revered the older buildings standing in their shadows. Ultimately, its the stories writers such as yourself, wrap around our spaces that decide what stands the test of time. Thank you for finding and sharing them.

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:44:38 +0000

Wonderful images, thank you so much.

By: Martin Loughlin

Martin Loughlin — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:28:57 +0000

As others have pointed out – so nice to see photos of london without all the hideous new buildings and post war planning vandalism

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:38:22 +0000

Great stuff!

By: Yvonne M

Yvonne M — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:45:58 +0000

I feel sad to see all of those wonderful church spires. What Hitler failed to destroy, profit has hidden. I remember walking the streets of London and navigating my way by the church spires. It was a a magical city then.

By: Ros

Ros — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 15:10:35 +0000

Love these photographs. Love London, have lived elsewhere, but nothing compares to London. Fascinated by the remnants of the past that cling to the architecture and the layout even beyond the monuments and the tourist attractions. There are still secrets to be revealed I am certain.

By: Hilda Kean

Hilda Kean — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:20:14 +0000

This was a wonderful viewing. Many of these images are not usually seen since they obviously date to a century ago.
The first image of St Paul’s cathedral, for example, is now often seen very differently in the context of a photograph surrounding smoke/fire in the Second World War. This one instead is a good insight – almost challenging some of the images we generally bring to our memory.

Such smoky ‘memory’, say of St Paul’s, doesn’t always exist as part of our own wartime experience since not of all us were alive at that time! But we will still tend to remember such a timed past . The images you have presented here are an interesting and important challenge!

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:58:02 +0000

Wonderful images that show the tallest buildings in the city were the church spires not the hideous vanity projects that we now have to endure.