Bridge
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They stride back over London Bridge every day, the almost-site of the capital's first Thames crossing point.
As a thoroughfare from the Square Mile to Southwark on the south bank, the people make their own minor journeys for work, leaving their own footfall on this route of business - a mass departure from a great financial centre.
The Bridge is both ancient route for politics and ideas and the conduit for liquid history, its people every rush hour treading a long-told story.
The original formal crossing was an invention of Roman Londinium, determined by geography and geology; in medieval times its backdrop was ceremony, pilgrimage and turmoil but its position today as a conduit for money and world influence is also a metaphor for the leaving of modern Europe. At closing time every day, the tidal population flows over (like the waters below) a Brexiting drawbridge.
As a thoroughfare from the Square Mile to Southwark on the south bank, the people make their own minor journeys for work, leaving their own footfall on this route of business - a mass departure from a great financial centre.
The Bridge is both ancient route for politics and ideas and the conduit for liquid history, its people every rush hour treading a long-told story.
The original formal crossing was an invention of Roman Londinium, determined by geography and geology; in medieval times its backdrop was ceremony, pilgrimage and turmoil but its position today as a conduit for money and world influence is also a metaphor for the leaving of modern Europe. At closing time every day, the tidal population flows over (like the waters below) a Brexiting drawbridge.
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294 imagesALL They stride back over London Bridge every day, the almost-site of the capital's first Thames crossing point. As a thoroughfare from the Square Mile to Southwark on the south bank, the people make their own minor journeys for work, leaving their own footfall on this route of business - a mass departure from a great financial centre. The Bridge is both ancient route for politics and ideas and the conduit for liquid history, its people every rush hour treading a long-told story. The original formal crossing was an invention of Roman Londinium, determined by geography and geology; in medieval times its backdrop was ceremony, pilgrimage and turmoil but its position today as a conduit for money and world influence is also a metaphor for the leaving of modern Europe. At closing time every day, the tidal population flows (like the waters below) over a Brexiting drawbridge. Best edit: https://richardbaker.photoshelter.com/gallery/Bridge-best/G0000ZuwSdhKnTt0 -
132 imagesBEST EDIT They stride back over London Bridge every day, the almost-site of the capital's first Thames crossing point. As a thoroughfare from the Square Mile to Southwark on the south bank, the people make their own minor journeys for work, leaving their own footfall on this route of business - a mass departure from a great financial centre. The Bridge is both ancient route for politics and ideas and the conduit for liquid history, its people every rush hour treading a long-told story. The original formal crossing was an invention of Roman Londinium, determined by geography and geology; in medieval times its backdrop was ceremony, pilgrimage and turmoil but its position today as a conduit for money and world influence is also a metaphor for the leaving of modern Europe. At closing time every day, the tidal population flows (like the waters below) over a Brexiting drawbridge.