Trafalgar Square

Trafalgar Square, London

National Geographic Magazine

September 1953

Princess Diana

Princess Diana with Prince William and Prince Harry

1 July 1961 - 31 August 1997

Gold

'As I came down the Highgate Hill
I met the sun's bravado,
And saw below me, fold on fold,
Grey to pearl and pearl to gold,
This London like a land of old,
The land of Eldorado.'

- Henry Howarth Bashford

Tea

'In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.'

from Tom Jones - John Osborne

Infinite London

'London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.'

from London: The Biography - Peter Ackroyd

London Town

'A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping,
Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye
Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping
In sight, then lost amidst the forestry
Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping
On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;
A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown
On a fool's head - and there is London Town.'

from Don Juan, Canto X, Stanza 82 - Lord Byron

Perpetually

'This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.'

from a letter to Katharine Tynan - William Butler Yeats, 25th August 1888

Lanes and Courts

'Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.'

- Samuel Johnson

Ducks in a Line

London, 1954

Douglas Miller