Britain gallery: City lamp-post

Wandering around the environs of Old Spitalfields in London, I spotted this apparently old

lamp-post juxtaposed against the new high-rises of the City. Who knows if the lamp actually

is old - its probably only the same age as the skyscraper. It's a fascinating area, though I

never did make it, as I'd intended, to the Hawksmoor church that stands proud at the

eastern end of Spitalfields Market.

Whilst filming a series of documentaries for London Docklands, I chanced upon the

Hawksmoor church at Wapping. I was firmly kept away from the crypt as a relay of masked

men in full infection suits made their way out carrying recently-discovered coffins that had

still-dangerous contents - plague victims, apparently from the 1665 outbreak that all but

depopulated London (and the rest of the world). They must have been early victims too,

since the supply of coffins quickly ran out and the dead were subsequently interned in mass

graves by the ever-fewer survivors.

Wandering around the environs of Old Spitalfields in London, I spotted this apparently old lamp-post

juxtaposed against the new high-rises of the City. Who knows if the lamp actually is old - its probably

only the same age as the skyscraper. It's a fascinating area, though I never did make it, as I'd

intended, to the Hawksmoor church that stands proud at the eastern end of Spitalfields Market.

Whilst filming a series of documentaries for London Docklands, I chanced upon the Hawksmoor

church at Wapping. I was firmly kept away from the crypt as a relay of masked men in full infection

suits made their way out carrying recently-discovered coffins that had still-dangerous contents -

plague victims, apparently from the 1665 outbreak that all but depopulated London (and the rest of

the world). They must have been early victims too, since the supply of coffins quickly ran out and

the dead were subsequently interned in mass graves by the ever-fewer survivors.