Comments on: On Night Patrol With Lew Tassell

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:03:55 +0000

Betcha don’t see London streets like that anymore.
I hear Lew nicked Braverman this afternoon. Bravo!

By: Bernie

Bernie — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:57:53 +0000

Gillian, thank you for your comment. You are quite right that a broader perspective is called for. I am influenced by the fact that it is very many years since I lived in London (my birthplace) and am now too old to even visit it again. So the loss of that bridge across the view is a loss to me, but a gain to the wider perspective.

By: Gillian Tindall

Gillian Tindall — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:50:22 +0000

Sad? But that bridge, built (I think) in the 1860s when the new Metropolitan line was linked with the London, Dover and Chatham railway line from the other side of the river, destroyed the thousand-year view up the side of the hill to one of the gateways in London’s encircling wall – hence `Ludgate’. When the bridge was pulled down thirty years ago we could at last see again the contour of this traditional approach to the City from the west.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 08:18:47 +0000

Oh how sad! I learn that Blackfriars railway bridge is no more!

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:51:35 +0000

A different world to most of us snugly tucked up in our beds at that time. Wonderful images though.