Roman London

Paleys Upon Pilers

Malta Memorial

Roman flooring

The Leaky Cauldron

One of the many examples in
Postman's Park

Shard to St Paul's
form One New Terrace

Armed with my trusty google map I set off to find some well known and not so well known London landmarks. Alighting at Aldgate the first is a new wooden sculpture to commerate the poet, Geoffrey Chaucer and mark the traditional eastern entrance to the city in Roman times.

Next with a glimpse of the Tower of London I find the church, All Hallows by the Tower where Samuel Pepys watched the Great Fire of London from the steeple. This church has one of the best preserved Roman floors in London dating from the 2^nd century. Then a memorial to the people of Malta for their heroic service in WW2.

Now its an uphill walk to Leadenhall Market that dates back to the 14^th century and was originally a meat, poultry and game market. Nowadays it is used on lots of movies and I find the important entrance to the Leaky Cauldron from the Harry Potter movies.

So far my navigation is going well, onto the London Stone. Like everything in London there are lots of stories about it, maybe it dates to the 12^th century, maybe not. Either way it is very underwhelming now set in front of a boring concrete building from 1962.

Walking around the city of London one of the best bits is the contrast between old decorative buildings and modern skyscrapers.

Final stop this morning for me is Postman’sPark a memorial to heroic self service, an oasis of green amongst the towering office buildings. A check of my trusty London Tube app and its time to navigate to South Kensington.