London in Pictures [antikvár]

íéifötximrirz London in Pictures photographs: Kenneth Scowen For centuries the River Thames was the main highway of London and thus it was convenient for the fortresses and palaces, the seats of government and courts of justice, the great churches and centres of commerce, the theatres and places of recreation to be established on or near its banks. Only traces of the Román occupation remain, but the heavy hand of William the Conqueror is still evident. Since his time, nine centuries of archi-tectural and political development have patterned a tapestry of tremendous richness and variety. Scenes from it are presented in this book. Kenneth Scowen's beautiful photographs include the familiar and the unique. They are arranged in a sequence moving from east to west and following the Thames from Greenwich to Windsor, with text: Olwen Hedley minor diversions north and south. It was from the east that the Román, Danish and Norman invaders came to London. Today most visitors from overseas arrive from the west, from Heathrow Airport, near Windsor Castle. They are now warmly welcomed and it is for them that this book is produced. the photographs : Those not by Kenneth Scowen are otherwise acknowledged. (Front cover) The Queen's Guard at the gates of Buckingham Palace (British Travel Authority); (facing) Westminster Hall in the Palace of Westminster (Sydney W. Newbery) ; (above) the magnificent panorama from the Victoria Tower looking east to the City of London with the Houses of Parliament in the foreground and County Hall and the Shell complex on the right; (back cover) a view that inspired Turner : winter sunset on the Thames at Chelsea.