Cromwell and Charles I stare across Margaret Street at each other forever, while George VI looks impassively on from Old Palace Yard. To the Western end of Westminster Abbey, where only last month a new row of stone statues were installed over the Western entrance. These are ten 20th century martyrs, and one of them is Martin Luther King. Around the back into Great College Street where four of a few hundred gas streetlamps in London are still lit every evening. We were in Barton Street as two uniformed police passed by (a joke for fans of The Bill). Gielgud's home in Cowly Street, past the home of Mr Anderson (of the shelters) and also the headquarters of the Anti-Appeasement movement in Lord North Street. The same house was later used as a headquarters for Thatcher's Conservative Focus group which rather spoils things. WWII Public Shelter notices still on the walls. Into Smith Square, formerly the location of Conservative Party HQ, still the location of Liberal Democrats HQ...and, at number 8, the former home of Oswald Moseley. Surprised it is still standing.
Down Millbank, over Lambeth Bridge where nobody said Oi, and up the Albert Embankment for the most famous and beautiful night-time parliamentary view in the world. Back over Westminster Bridge to where we began. Stood on Westminster Bridge with the video camera attempting to film Big Ben at ten, passing people looking at me as if I were insane. But standing on Westminster Bridge at 10 at night with a camera does not automatically get you mugged. As the poor woman who has become known to the British public simply as Abigail could tell you, that can happen with no warning in the least likely places.
Home to pack for the Malverns and the rest.
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