When the Thames was still a working river nu 2 ............. across to St Paul's

It is just one of those simple things that as you get older there are more and more things you can use as a bench mark marking the passage of time.

And this is one of them for while the painting dates from 1907 I can still remember the river as a working highway where all manner of ships and boats plied their business.

As a child in the 1950s crossing London Bridge there was plenty to see from the cranes and warehouses to tramp steamers and lightermen.

Picture; the River and St Paul's from the Shot Tower, in the series LONDON SERIES V Tuck and Sons, courtesy of Tuck DB, https://tuckdb.org/