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We went on a trip with the U3A starting from London Bridge

Painted Lady found on the compact flash	Rosa 'Tottering by Gently'	We started the walk with coffee at Hay's Galleria in what used to be Hay's Wharf
		Reflections
	HMS Belfast		Pier
		Colour added and the Walkie Talkie	Southwark Gateway Needle
Silver Shard	1 Blackfriars - the pregnant skyscraper	Shard
The Monument		This enlarges
A dragon	Pawns?	London's Burning	Where the fire started
		The cat on the right was a lucky inclusion	Botolph Alley
	Church of St-Mary-at-Hill	Stained glass around the window	Organ
Ceiling	Lectern	This enlarges considerably
		Old Billingsgate	Billingsgate Weather Vane
Hay's Galleria where we started our walk	HMS Belfast camouflaged against the buildings	Silvery Shard
Art and some U3A members	Tower of London	Lions	We left the group and set off for St Paul's
The Visor	Patterns		Cat and the fiddle/cello
			We had a steak and ale pie at a Nicholson Pub Williamson's Tavern
			Patterns
On the roof of St Paul's		Inside St Paul's

		This enlarges

		Samuel Johnson	Organ
Mother and Child by Henry Moore			Based on the exterior of the Cathedral, I didn't expect the interior to be so gaudy
The other side		John Donne poet and Dean of St Pauls from 1621-1631
J M W Turner	Joshua Reynolds in the crypt
Old photo	604 St Paul's founded by King Ethelbert of Kent. c.680 St Erkenwald Bishop of London re-establishes the cathedral		Exhibition of individual views of the cathedral
Gates to the exhibition	Nelson's tomb	Love these gates
			Peter could not find his ticket so he had to buy another. Fortunately he found the original one on the way home and got a refund at St Albans station.