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Claude Monet's Waterloo Bridge
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"People in London tell the foreigner who seeks some understanding of Britain, "Whatever you do, don't stay in London. Get out of London and go...." The visitor is advised to go to the villages in Somerset and Norfolk, to Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands, to ancient York and Durham in the north of England, to the coal towns of Wales or to the great cities and wild highlands of Scotland. All these places and more reveal much of Britain.

But the Londoners who suggest that their incomparable city is like any other capital, distant and divorced from the real life of the country, must know in their hearts that they are wrong. For London contains and projects the whole essence of England, and indeed of Britain.

One visitor's favourite view of London is from Waterloo Bridge over the River Thames, at twilight on a rainy day. Then the lights and sounds and shapes of the great city are softened and muted in the English mist. Just at the bridge, on the northern bank of the river, is the enormous mass of Somerset House, where every birth and marriage and death in England and Wales is recorded."

.........to be continued..........

Quoted from "LIFE World History : Britain"
by John Osborned
and The Editors of LIFE
Published by TIME-LIFE International 1967

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