Finished in 2012 and taller than any building in the UK, The Shard anchored lots of “old and new” pictures. This is what makes London, for me, such a delightful walking city: there’s no telling whether the row of buildings around a corner will date from the same decade or from different centuries.
In these three pictures, the Tower of London sits in the foreground. Its oldest portions date back to the 11th century. The most recent walls you see here date to the late 1300s.
One of the big iron supports of Tower Bridge (1890s), in the foreground, with City Hall (2002) on the left.
Romans built the first city on this spot, Londinium. Ironically, it was a remote colony in their empire. These are remains of the wall they put up to keep out both the natives and emigrants.
Under a bridge on this walk, I saw this man, standing utterly still, not moving his head to watch passers by, with a small plastic tub on the ground in front of him.
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