Identifier: wandererinlondon00luca (find matches)
Title: A wanderer in London
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Subjects: Art -- England London London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Methuen & co.

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ST. IAIl. S VHnW I UK HIVKU I THE GREAT ROADS 151 the ball of its sentinel cathedral — all spread out on everyside, with a streak of river in the midst: all grey and busyright away to the green fields. To trace the great roads from this height is one of themost interesting things. For it is pleasant to think thatall the roads even of the crowded congested business centretake one in time into the country, into the world, right to the sea. In time, for example, Ludgate Hill is going to beFleet Street, and Fleet Street the Strand, and the StrandKing William Street, and so on to Leicester Square andCoventry Street and Piccadilly; and Piccadilly leads toHounslow and Staines and the west of England. Behindus is Cannon Street, which leads to London Bridge andthe Borough High Street and Tal)ard Street to WatlingStreet and Gravescnd and Rorhester and the Kentish coast:or via London Bridge and the Borough High Street, toNewington Causeway, to Clapham, Epsotn, Leatherheadand Dorking to the Suss

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