Posts Tagged ‘“Bank of England”’
Place Without Cars
This picture was submitted to a Flickr group I created called Places Without Cars. It is without doubt the picture that I have been most pleased to see in the submissions. Fortunately the user (who goes by the sobriquet “Cheesyfeet” but still requires attribution) has a Creative Commons license on this picture.
He says:
“Bank Junction, right in the middle of the City of London.
This is on my long cycle home and you’ll notice no cars. Bank Junction is buses and cycles only, mon-fri, 7am to 7pm and it’s ace!”
He also uses Strava and provides a link which identifies him and the route he uses. Like me he is an Essex lad!
This picture was taken by Dave A Flett in the 1970’s in roughly the same spot – actually the street to the left in the original picture
(I am just posting a link, not taking a copy of the image)
Of this image the poster, Leonard Bentley, says
An early 1920s scene at the Bank in the City of London, a seemingly bemused elderly lady in a place she should not have been. The Bank junction is still one of the busiest in central London, traffic comes at you from all directions.
By Paul Murray in 2014
By Swire Chin in 2007
From The Telegraph in the 1950s – and how I remember it.
By the way in searching for these images I have learned that the closure is an 18 month experiment. I hope it is made permanent!
Threadneedle Street – in front of the Bank of England – is not labeled on this screencap from Google maps. The top picture was taken from in front of Mansion House looking east.
