Bits of London Missed by Bombers, Developers etc

Olympus OM2 Tri-x Tmax Developer Orange Filter The contrast between the 800 metre corridor along the Thames north and south of the river is astonishing North of the river in Victorian times was posh and land was expensive, so the railways had to go underground South of the river was proletarian and land was cheap. It was cheaper to build railways overground So south London is criss-crossed by railways. It is almost impossible to walk these streets without falling over a railway bridge It drives one to distraction sometimes becasue it narrows the view from street level But because this was marginal land, the developers left alone that which the Luftwaffe missed. And so if you look down rather than up you come across these forgotten Victorian relics and see London unchanged from the era prior to 4 August 1914. And lots of lovely, contrasty, London stock bricks

Olympus OM2 Tri-x Tmax Developer Orange Filter I stumbled across Webber St the other day, one of those happy serendipities of London life.