Old London

These images are taken from a book whose title and author I've temporarily mislaid (doh!) but I'm pretty certain it was called 'Lost London'.  It's a photographic record of London as it was, a city blasted by second world war bombs and much of its glorious architecture destroyed.  If the Luftwaffe didn't get it then narrow minded 20th century city planners did.  Just imagine what the city would've been like had glories like this fantastic gateway survived?