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	T. S. Eliot Blue Plaque T. S. Eliot Blue Plaque

T. S. Eliot Blue Plaque The group get ready to journey via the Tube to the Tate Modern

Philosophy is discussed in the Tube Philosophy is discussed in the Tube

At the Tate Modern with the Thames and St Pauls Cathedral in the background At the Tate Modern with the Thames and St Pauls Cathedral in the background

Decor inside the Tate Modern - a converted power station Decor inside the Tate Modern - a converted power station

Decor inside the Tate Modern - a converted power station The Thames, Millennium Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral

The Thames, Millennium Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral Outside the Tate Modern

Outside the Tate Modern Outside the Tate Modern

Thames, Millennium Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral Reconstructed Globe Theatre

Southwark walk Ruined Cathedral

Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hinde Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hinde

Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hinde Flowers in Southwark Cathedral

Flowers in Southwark Cathedral Southwark Cathedral

At London Bridge At London Bridge

Tower Bridge viewed from London Bridge Small Tall ship on the Thames

HMS Belfast and Tower Bridge in the Distance Hay's Galleria

Sculpture within Hay's Galleria - with functioning ores HMS Belfast

Tower Bridge Tower of London

Tower Bridge being raised to let a boat through Possibly the top of the Imperial War Museum

Cloudscape and HMS Belfast Small Tall ship approaching the raised Tower Bridge

Small Tall ship going under the Tower Bridge Small Tall ship going under the Tower Bridge

Close up of the Hay's Galleria Sculpture London Bridge and St Paul's Cathredral

City Scape on the other side of the Thames The Barrowboy and Banker

Written in stone: "Behond the Liquid Thames now frozen ore. Their lately Ships of mighty Burthen Bore." From Fletch: Subject: Re: the origin of "Behold the Liquid Thames"??? Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 12:38:12 +0100 can't be sure, but it seems this may have been on a handbill, actually printed on the ice on the River Thames when it froze over in 1739/40. 1739/40 Severe weather from 24 December 1739 for 9 weeks and cold weather continued into the Spring. A Frost Fair was held on the frozen Thames from Christmas 1739 till February 17. Souvenirs were printed on printing presses on the ice. Snow fell in London on the night of 16/17 May. It was still cold in July. A hurricane occurred in London on November 1. ("from 'Agricultural Records AD220 - 1968' and other sources") Possibly from a poem "The glory of old England". White-Hall: printed upon the ice, on the River Thames, February the 18th, 1739-40 NOTE: Purchasers' names: John and Elizabeth Smelt. An engraved plate printed and published by R. Walker, London, showing the statue of Queen Anne erected at Blenheim, with the inscription placed on it by Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, dated 1738. Below, within an engraved border, is the letterpress imprint and verse with first line as: "Behold the liquid Thames now frozen o]'er.", and above the imprint is space for printing the purchaser's name. NOTE: 840.m.27(2*) ESTCT40845 2. White-Hall: printed upon the ice, on the River Thames, February the 4th, 1739-40 1739 ? London] 1 sheet; 1/20. Oxford University Bodleian Library A similar thing seems to have happened fifty years later... BAILEY, William, printer and music seller, The little a 41, Leadenhall Street c1770-85; The little a, 42 Bishopsgate Street within 1785P-1790U. S. of Thomas B. printer q.v. App. his father 1758, free Sta. Co. 1767 1768-93 14 apps. 5 premiums average £7. Probable printer of the following keepsake: The Silver Thames was frozen o'er, No diffrence 'twixt the Stream and Shore: The like no Man hath seen before, Except he liv'd in Days of Yore. On the Ice, at the Thames Printing Office, opposite St. Catherine's Stairs in the severe Frost, January, 1789. Printed by Me, William Bailey. Todd; Humphries and Smith. The true author of the lines though I cannot discover. Possibly a Grub street hack making a fast quid on the ice? Or someone better? Written in stone: "The Watermen for want of Rowing Boats Make ufe of Booths to get their Pence and Groats."

Reconstruction of the Globe Theatre Outside the Tate Modern

Outside the Tate Modern Buildings beside the Tate Modern

Eating at Thai Restaurant near Hays Galleria and HMS Belfast Halo'd Cloudscape above London

Blue Plaque of Mozart near Ronnie Scotts A night at Ronnie Scotts, Soho

Piccadilly Circus, Soho Blueish Plaque to John Stuart Mill near South Kensington