Formerly the church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie and has been a place of worship for over a thousand years, it became a Cathederal in 1905. The church had close connections with Elizabethan dramatists, William Shakespeare's brother Edmund is buried there and there is a monument and stained glass window in honour of Shakespeare (photos). Maybe Interesting to our American friends, John Harvard, who helped found Harvard University, was born in the parish and baptised in the church and has a Harvard chapel to commemorate him in the Cathederal paid for by Harvard Uuniversity. There is a lot more history but would take all day! 🙂
The last photo is the escalator dow to London Bridge tube, I see no people!!.
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Right that's it, you can join the other two of my nemasises, I won't name them that wouldn't be fair!.😉
Three older ladies were discussing the travails of getting older. Leo60 said, Sometimes I catch myself with a jar of mayonnaise in my hand in front of the refrigerator and can't remember whether I need to put it away or start making a sandwich. Marnie22 chimed in, Yes, sometimes I find myself on the landing of the stairs and can't remember whether I am on my way up or on my way down.
Springross responded, Well, I'm glad I don't have that problem, knock on wood. She rapped her knuckles on the table, then told them, That must be the door, I'll get it. 😁xx
I love your walks .. I commuted from Essex to you city most of my working life and spent many lunch hour and weekend exploring.. some of your info is new to me or forgotten then recalled. All out of reach for me for many years now. X
Those photos are so interesting as you add those little gems of history Bazzak. Particularly the one about oJohn Havard.. As you say, our American friends will find that so interesting too. Amazing, the lack of people on the escalators. Must be very weird and strange.
It really was just me!, maybe because the entrance was in Borough High street rather than London Bridge station itself, I don't know but it was strange. 🙂xx
You have a lot of interesting stuff to tell. 🙂🌸 I met a Womble who was opening a branch of Top Shop in Richmond upon Thames, does that count? And I used to work for the Dimbleby family in Richmond.
Tell you what I found wierd, now my sir name, there are probably 15 max 20 people in the UK with it and we are all related. So I go to secondary school, first day there , the sports teacher said your dad played for West Ham In goal, and promptly stuck me in goal even though I was an outfield player. It got worse, the Headmaster told me that my great uncle was once the Headmaster of the school and he was a teacher under him. Did they have high expectations of me!! 🙉🙉xx
Right, 1930, my dad was 17 and a professional goal keeper at West Ham. Now the main Goalkeeper was Ted Hufton who played for England and the second was a 30 year old in the twilight of his career, dad was being set up to take over. Then they didn't have youth teams etc so my dad wasn't getting game time. So West Ham decided to loan him out to Barking fc, an amateur club, Barking loved him so much that they were putting extra money in his boots ( literally) to keep him. The football association found out and because he was a professional and Barking amateur he got banned sine die, which mean for life. To be fair to the chairman of West Ham, he looked after him by paying him to play for his factory team ( big crowds then) even though he didn't work for them!. My dad was a great character, his war stories ( desert rats) were amazing to listen to.
I have a photo of him in the West Ham team, if you like I will post it for a little while.
Wonderful pictures and information, Bazzak ! Really enjoy seeing the stained glass window and the escalator looks like the ones we have at the Metro out here. Not too sure how many people are using them right now during the week, but not too many during the weekends for now, anyway.
What a well travelled person! I went to an incredible concert in St. David's Cathedral. It was Karl Jenkins conducting 'The Armed Man,' plus some of his other pieces. Just then, when I was typing in, 'The Armed Man,' it came up as, 'The Armed NAN!' That's a very different cultural experience! 😁🌸
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Gorgeous day today - 2nd set of photos