View from St Paul’s Cathedral, London 1977
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Looking south-east from St Paul’s in 1977, this view runs down across the eastern side of the City towards the Thames and Tower Bridge beyond. Cannon Street station dominates the right-hand side of the scene, with its broad roof and surviving twin towers still a major landmark on the river approach, while the clustered streets in front are broken up by two notable City churches: the pale Gothic west front of St Nicholas Cole Abbey to the left of centre and the restored tower of St Michael Paternoster Royal to the right. In the distance, Tower Bridge closes the view over the Pool of London, while the mixture of post-war office blocks, older commercial buildings and surviving church spires shows the City in one of its last phases before the later high-rise boom transformed the skyline. The photograph has a particularly useful documentary feel, capturing the dense texture of offices, station buildings and churchyards that still defined this part of London in the 1970s.
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