City & Thames
London. Wed 7 Aug 2019
The alley leads to St Andrew's by the Wardrobe
where the front entrance looks out onto St Andrew's Hill and The Cockpit
pub
This is a view I tried hard to photograph on film and could never
quite get right
Solar panels on top of Blackfriars station which goes across the river
on the bridge
The Thames and Millenium footbridge
The tide was very low and I went down the steps onto the foreshore
Brook's Wharf
Buried below the sand and mud are the remains of part of London's
Roman harbour and the later medieval quay
and dock at Queenhithe, a scheduled ancient monument. It is probably
the only existing Saxon harbour in the
world, presented by King Alfred the Great in 883 AD to his brother-in-law
Ethelred. It got the name Queenhithe
later when the harbour dues became the property of the wife of Henry
I, Queen Matilda. The dock was still in use
mainly by the fur trade in the early 20th century, and there were
still fur shops in the area around in the 1970s.
All of the buildings around are now modern, but the dock walls and
piling are older. Back in Roman times the
Thames was wider and ground levels in the city much lower than today.
I walk back up to the riverside path and walk east
going past Southwark Bridge.
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